Your reaction to a large attack is based on what kind of music is playing: If it's rock music with japanese lyrics, you can probably just catch the weapon with one hand. If it's epic orchestral, you can block it. It might push you down onto one knee, but don't worry, you'll be fine and it'll look awesome. If it's mostly choir, roll across the ground like a madman because it'll definitely kill you if you don't.

@PJDAltamirus0425

2 жыл бұрын

… hmm. Guilty gear, fire emblem or beserk, and dark souls logic?

@ericstoverink6579

2 жыл бұрын

If it's a solo voice you're doomed. There's nothing that you can do. You were a supporting character all along.

@SMT-ks8yp

2 жыл бұрын

@@ericstoverink6579 don't get this one.

@kylestanley7843

2 жыл бұрын

Metal Gear Rising lol

@ericstoverink6579

Жыл бұрын

@@SMT-ks8yp supporting character deaths are often shown with a sad solo voice singing as the background music.

"If they are sliding their hands up and down their shaft, be wary of that." - Matt Easton

@tylercross8877

2 жыл бұрын

I'd be worried too if they were sliding their hands up and down there shafts, especially if they licked their lips and stared at me while doing so

@blumiu2426

2 жыл бұрын

I knew someone would catch that XD

@primafacie5029

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@johnhanley9946

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@AveragePicker

2 жыл бұрын

Matt’s advice still works. A guy up the street from me was sliding his hands up and down his shaft. The two girls he was looking at made distance, called for help…and he was arrested.

Everyone knows that if you fight a large opponent with a large weapon, you just keep dodge rolling around their massive attacks until they leave themselves open for counter attacks.

@Topo842

2 жыл бұрын

Or a backstab

@nguyenanthinh4364

2 жыл бұрын

Those I-frames are too op!

@apophisstr6719

2 жыл бұрын

I thought you just parry them with your left hand or something.

@sksmsEKdn

2 жыл бұрын

@@apophisstr6719 true to some degree but sly sobs mix unparriable blows to their combo

@Usernametaken1

2 жыл бұрын

This checks out.

Matt I don't know if I ever told you, but you featured as an NPC in my D&D campaign recently! My players were looking for an enchanted and storied shield from an ancient empire, and I used you as an antiques dealer/ historian who aided them in their investigation by providing their prior knowledge and hints with the proper CONTEXT! I thought you would enjoy knowing this :)

@forteandblues

2 жыл бұрын

I know I sure do!!! Awesome, did your players pick up on it or was it just for good NPC role play/knowledge giving?

@DamienNeverwinter

2 жыл бұрын

Matt should be in a video game -I'd buy it

@ChapterGrim

2 жыл бұрын

I need to find a way to slip Matt into a Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 4th Edition game of mine in the future... 🤔😅

@kairyumina6407

2 жыл бұрын

@@forteandblues none of the rest of them are sword nerds but my wife recognized him lol. As is it was mostly for my own benefit

@kairyumina6407

2 жыл бұрын

@@ChapterGrim he could be an empire arms merchant, or maybe high elven?

One other cautionary point: just because someone is big, does not mean that they are slow, unskilled, or dumb. My HEMA instructor is the size of a titan, and not only is he fast, but seemingly knows every trick going.

@skeletonnoise6178

2 жыл бұрын

Dude’s instructor is Zodd from Berserk

@TrueMentorGuidingMoonlight

2 жыл бұрын

@@skeletonnoise6178 🎵 Heed the warning of Zodd the Immortal! Bound to fight, kill, and die, nothing can stop this tide… the ultimate sacrifice! 🎵

Matt, you do realise that all those people asking "how do you fend off a cave troll with a rapier" were just Shadiversity's alt accounts right?

@rogerwilco2

2 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahah.

@skeletonnoise6178

2 жыл бұрын

Am I a alt account?

10:56 "If they are sliding their hands up and down their shaft, then be wary of that and keep well away from them" Agreed, people deserve personal space when it's time to slide their hands on their shafts. Unless they want the company.

@winsunwong5648

2 жыл бұрын

if hes doing it in public, he clearly wants the company

@Dennis-vh8tz

2 жыл бұрын

@@winsunwong5648 If he's doing it in public, I'm going to keep as far away as possible. Time to do like "brave Sir Robin"!

@winsunwong5648

2 жыл бұрын

@@Dennis-vh8tz as matt easton said, "what if you cant escape?" imagine being forced to "sword fight" with this dude lol

@Dennis-vh8tz

2 жыл бұрын

@@winsunwong5648 Then, it's going to get really messy. Definitely a sticky situation.

4:19 Matt Easton cuts with such force that he slices through the fabric of reality and eliminates the very sound from the surrounding air, three times in a row. What an expert swordsman!

Tis not the size of the young knaves blade, but the lust in his thrust which legends are made

@morganrobinson8042

2 жыл бұрын

Though if you're not hitting anything vital, just stabbing over and over is doing nobody any good I don't care how much effort you're putting in.

@brianj.841

2 жыл бұрын

"It's not the size of the man in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the man."

Also, anyone who specifically choose and carries a very large heavy weapon is very likely to know how to use it in close in surprising ways... I spent years training on a 5' long Ram Dao, equal length in blade and shaft, with the tsuba dead center. It was capable of being used like a spear, a glaive, a sword, a staff, or because of its thick spine, a long bludgeon. My favorite way of running it was in a low guard, inverted, similar to how you would hold a garden rake. Surprisingly quick and powerful strikes come from that position. And yes, like Matt said, you can transition very fast to other orientations. The goal is to keep the motions, big or small, defensive or offensive, in a constant circular motion, to preserve as much centrifugal force as possible for the next cut. And there are many ways to prevent someone from getting inside your guard. That's one of the primary benefits of running a larger weapon, not just reach, but control over the space between, always trying to force your opponent into that sweet spot where your weapon is most effective. But perhaps the best use of the very large tool is the ability it gives to be successful against multiple attackers in ways that a one handed blade simply cannot do as well. But yes, get in, or get out, decisively. Because blocking is not a good option. Best bet is to dodge, then immediately bind or grapple at the end of the swing, where momentum has stalled, and pull the large blade past you on the side, then go to furious work with your shorter blade. Hands are a great target, simply because a two handed weapon is a liability one handed. Offend that which offends you most...

@charlottewalnut3118

2 жыл бұрын

Where’d you get that and may I have a picture and a link to who made that

@williamchamberlain2263

2 жыл бұрын

Billhook or spear resting over the shoulder closest the enemy and hand right up at the butt translates to a thrust with 3.5m reach if you pivot on the lead foot and allow it to run out to the full one-handed extent. If you carry on the pivot it'll recover very easily too. A one-trick pony, but really catches people by surprise.

@williamchamberlain2263

2 жыл бұрын

@@Hahaha12342 not really: starting stance is like Wappenhandelinghe van Roers Musquetten ende Spiessen de Gheyn 3-29

The proper way to deal with this is actually to roll on the floor when you get hit and you wont take any damage.

@sidecharacter7165

2 жыл бұрын

Make sure your armor isn’t too heavy though or your roll will look fat,

Love when historic experts cover fantasy. Helps my world building for RPGs.

The key is dodging at the right time to line up your invincibility frames with the opponent’s swing to avoid contact and damage ;)

@SamuraiJames

2 жыл бұрын

"git gud" lol

@brized

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, dodge into the attack so it phases through your body without harm

Assuming it's like an unarmed person vs a person with a knife: Run away!

@scholagladiatoria

2 жыл бұрын

They can run faster than you. Do you want to die running?

@The_PotionSeller

2 жыл бұрын

@@scholagladiatoria I don't want to live running either. Death before dishonor, we attack

@winsunwong5648

2 жыл бұрын

@@scholagladiatoria I mean, I still think running might be an option if their gear is significantly heavier and they are also human. That being said, if its an orc or troll or other nonhuman with super strength I think you might want to ask yourself what you are doing there to begin with.

@laperrablanca1

2 жыл бұрын

Running away is not always an option

@Intranetusa

2 жыл бұрын

If you're fighting a troll that is bigger, faster, stronger, and has a bigger weapon then you, then fighting won't help either. You just need to stall it long enough for the sun to rise and turn it to stone (eg. Hobbit).

"It's dangerous to go alone. Take Matt Easton."

Another option from the Dussack handbook: When you slip back, chop at the top of their weapon. On a really lucky day they might stick it in the ground. On a normal day with repeated attacks they will get tired and each time they pick up their massive chopper they will be a bit slower. This might provide another chance to charge in.

Something somewhat related that I have often wondered: Speaking realistically, how could a supernaturally strong warrior in a fantasy setting actually leverage their strength effectively in combat? Aside from the obvious answer of grappling, what would be some ways to really get some mileage out of being vastly stronger than your opposition? This is a pretty common scenario in fantasy setups, where the answer often is "Get a bigger weapon." I'm wondering if that is actually all that useful. If you're a good deal stronger than regular men, and can be almost certain that any human-sized opponent you run into will be a good deal weaker than you, what'd be the optimal way to leverage that? How should Hercules or some other hero like that actually fight?

@stw7120

2 жыл бұрын

If you have custom gear, you can get really thick full plate armor and be literally invincible. Once you have enough mass on you even warhammers don't work.

@winsunwong5648

2 жыл бұрын

Two handed weapons, Crushing type bludgeoning weapons with a multi-faceted head like a mace. One of the biggest issues of crushing type weapons with a multifaceted head is that they don't often instantly kill/cripple opponents with blows to nonvital areas unlike slicing/thrusting/smaller headed bludgeoning weapons that concentrate force into smaller areas for deep cuts/penetration/armor breaking. Having an enormous amount of strength would easily push the threshold of a random blow from a mace from moderate injury to severe or crippling or even life ending. The same strength might be wasted on a sword for example, it doesn't take superhuman strength to cut through a limb so having that extra bit of strength is essentially "wasted". At the same time, this takes advantage of the advantage of a multi-faceted bludgeoning weapon, which is that you can hit with any part of its head and deal damage to opponents both armored and unarmored. So essentially, super strength makes weapons like maces able to kill basically anyone, armored or unarmored, while if you had the same super strength with a rapier/axe/longsword etc they would all have some kind of hard counter in armor. Also, a bludgeoning weapon like a mace is far more durable and likely to survive your super strength, assuming we aren't using magical materials and just ordinary steel.

@vizunalvarez883

2 жыл бұрын

@@stw7120 I think the gaps in that armor would still be vulnerable. Still gotta move and stuff. Thick layers of leather or chain could work, but the gaps could still be chipped away at I'd imagine

@winsunwong5648

2 жыл бұрын

Also, superhuman strength means you can wear much much heavier armor, so imagine double thick breastplates, helms, etc

@stw7120

2 жыл бұрын

@@vizunalvarez883 gaps are vulnerable because humans aren't strong enough to wear layers, and also gaps are very hard to hit, so you had to either wrestle or stun an opponent to stab through them, and that doesn't work in this case

I love that he used the old Warhammer troll for the thumbnail. They're still the best!

What should you do? To quote the hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy "Don't Panic!" Everyone forgets that the 1st thing you need to do in any martial situation is have the will to fight, frightening your opponent wins almost every fight

I was at the studio one day and we had a random guy come up trash talking us. He ended up picking up a tree limb ( friggin huge one ) and rushing at myself and several of the other students. My teacher had heard us at this point and come across the yard and the guy took a swing at him with the tree limb. My teacher only had his bokken, but we watched as he stepped out of the way of the limb and let it hit the ground in front of him. Then he stepped on the end of the tree limb, took a few steps along the limb, and disarmed the guy. It was one of the most amazing things I have ever seen in person. It all happened so fast! My teacher then called the police while making the guy sit on the grass and wait. People are crazy, but I will never forget that. It was a David v Goliath moment and just goes to show you the true strength of skill & discipline.

Despite what I once thought about the large openings in the side rings of a greatsword, Skall was playing around with another guy and this guy said that the side rings made it nearly impossible to strike the hands. Great video, thanks.

@winsunwong5648

2 жыл бұрын

Its because having such a long weapon closes off the line of thrusts from most other weapons to the hand, essentially its incredibly hard to thrust down the blade of a greatsword to hit the hands without getting hit first by the greatsword. Therefore the rings only need to protect against cuts coming in, and the ring essentially provides a large steel plane of defence for attacks that aren't thrusts.

@10:55 If someone's sliding their hands up and down their shaft, I will indeed keep away from them. Seems like a potentially sticky situation, a mess even.

Having done sabre versus longsword, I don't think I would ever want to do a full on polearm or big 2 hander versus a single handler even in sparring. Ignoring the injury potential, it's not good times for the 1hander.

One of my favorite Fiore techniques is the response to the "Blow of the Villein." Deflect his swing slightly as you advance offline and use the momentum absorbed from his attack to power your own complete turn of your blade into his face.

I am always wary of opponents who slide their hands up and down their shafts at me.

This is cool. It brings me back to D&D campaigns in my high school days long long ago. Also we used to fight with wooded weapons, and I'm essentially a halfling IRL...

@WisdomThumbs

2 жыл бұрын

Reminds me of my childhood sword fights with slabs of oak bark in the park. So many smashed fingers.

From the experience fighting against huge (and fortunatelly padded) weapons, I would say there is a way to do this (yet it sounds quite complicated) You should move away, but raise your hands as if you wanted to parry the blow. However you don't really parry, but deliberatelly miss with the point of the sword and bind their weapon on the false edge/blunt part. You redirect the blow slightly to the side so you can slip under the blow with step forward. It is super important to keep the bind and control their weapon. Since it is heavy object, it is rather difficult to get it back online. You should not give the oponent a chance to do so. Then you grab their front arm with your left hand and stab them repeatedly to their belly. This is not fool proof solution, there are multiple ways for them to break from this situation, but till now I believe this is the most efficient way of dealing with heavy weapon. (please note this works mostly against weapons that cannot effectively stab. It is rather easy for a skilled fighter with a long/great sword to get the point back online, in which situation you just stabbed yourself with the opponents blade...)

In the Witcher books, there is a description that when they fight monsters, there is no point in block their blows. More realistically, Meyer has some panels against Halberd I think, though it may just be a school for Meyer, who have demonstrated weapons against pikes and halberds. Where you void against their strikes, suppress the weapon, and go in.

As much as I appreciate it the historical vids, this is my favorite genre of Matt video 😁

I could say so much about this, but the best advice is probably something I heard from some retired bikers I once shared a table with at a favorite old watering hole. They were reminiscing about fights they got into (presumably in the 60s of 70s). The topic of some guy famous for bashing people with a baseball bat whom one of them eventually beat up. His rule of thumb was "when the guy swings a weapon at you, it's his, when he pulls back, it's yours." Aikido is currently much maligned on the internet, but as an art primarily designed to work unarmed against a sword, and they are tops not only for training how to get out of the way, but also when to get out of the way and when to come in.

These techniques are exactly how my brother spars with me when I used to spar with him longsword against wakizashi. He was unbelievably fast with that parry and grab technique even when I was specifically watching for it.

Fun fact, that picture of a troll with a hammer (in the thumbnail) is actually artwork from the 98' RTS Dark Omen, which is based in the Warhammer Fantasy universe. If you're in to real time strategy games, I highly recommend looking into it -- it's a hard game but a ton of fun and free to download. And be sure to pay attention to Matt's advice, those dudes are taller than mounted cavalry lol

Thanks Matt. This sort of specific fighting matchup is exactly what's most useful to me as a writer.

I appreciate using the oldhammer troll picture. :D

Subtle comedy is the highest form of comedy, something the Great British culture excels at. Brilliant work sir and expertly inserted nuance sir, most comical.

Thanks for your video Matt. You have no idea how relevant to real life are your advises. Here in Israel, in the town of Elad, there was tonight a brutal terrorist attack in which 3 people, innocent civilians, were slain with axes, and 4 other were wounded. The two that managed to survive the onslaught by the 2 terrorists were two friends that were attacked while they were drinking hot soup in their car. One pushed one of the terrorists and managed to grab the axe haft, the other one threw his cup of boiling soup in the terrorist face. Both terrorists then run away - the security forces are still chasing them. Both young men wrte slightly wounded, but managed to save their lives, by eather creating distance by any means- boiling soup in this case, or closing the gap and grabbing the axe shaft. It's all the way in, or all the way out, and being aware of that is a must in every self defense scenario. Anyway, may the souls of the people murdered today be blessed, and may the brutal murderers be caught and punished

Educational, as always!

I was thinking about using the terrain - either fight around a tree or against choppers stick your back to a wall.

Loved the video!

This one was fun! Thanks!

Matt needs to write a book about his capability of keeping a straight face on the subject of shafts and sliding hands.

Ahoi! That's cool. We built appropriate rules for our roleplay many years ago and it's great to see that we got it absolutely right. Thanks for that.

This was my first video here and I super loved it. It gave me a great idea to incorporate sliding hands in a set of tabletop rules im writing to play with my friends. Really great vid!

I found this out during my LARPG days wielding a boffer glaive: if all you have is a broadsword, short sword, or arming sword, and you're facing an opponent with a huge, nasty weapon, you get in as quick as you can up close and personal, then stab the ever-loving daylights out of your enemy while they're recovering their stance!

You cracked me up with the ‘arrow to the knee’ comment. Lol. Great video!

Great video.

Probably the best advice I’ve received all week.

Makes me think of that first fight between Griffith & Guts in Berserk

Engaging a Troll in melee at all would be insane. Actual people would fight them with bows, crossbows and javelins.

This was a very interesting video. Please do more like this,if possible.

"I wrap my arm around the handle of olog-hai's warhammer." "Have a nice flight!"

Good advice Matt, personally I would move in as the opponents weapon is being raised, grab the butt of the weapon and push it up above your opponents eye level. This has the effect of preventing the downward swing as the axis of rotation has been moved back behind the shoulder, it will destabilise their footing and if your opposing arm is used it will stop your opponent from spotting the rondel or stiletto being slipped under their ribcage! If a longer weapon is used then slipping the blade up between the opponents arms and using a pull stroke at the crook of the elbow to sever the brachial artery would also work.

Great video

Reallyyyy needed this

Thank you.

Unlike other fantasy beasts, if I were large and strong I wouldn't be swinging a huge weapon, I'd be swinging a regular sized weapon really fast and hard. Wield a greatsword like an arming sword. Wearing full plate the same thickness as a man's, but sized up for my bulging green muscles. While every loincloth troll is swinging cinderblock hammers like a clumsy sack of potatoes, I'm making a name for myself as the fastest troll in the west.

@jintsuubest9331

2 жыл бұрын

Full plate for troll might be too heavy. You should consider teaching proper tactics for your fellow troll and use formation and stuff.

@adambielen8996

2 жыл бұрын

@@jintsuubest9331 To be fair he probably only needs to armor his limbs and groin to protect against most human attacks.

@Discitus

2 жыл бұрын

@@jintsuubest9331 What is a "tactic"? Some kind of elf magic? Can I hit people with it?

@jintsuubest9331

2 жыл бұрын

@@Discitus Nope, but mastering this "tactic" thing can yield you more tasty human flesh.

I was going to ask you this the other day Matt. 1.) What is the smallest weapon that you would be able to parry a Halberd with? 2.) What is the smallest weapon that you would feel comfortable parrying a Halberd with? 3.) & 4.) How about the same two questions for a Dane ax? A couple of tips about trolls: --> A troll will gladly lose a few fingers to chop off your head. --> Its fingers will grow back. Your head probably won't. --> Grabbing the troll's arm is NOT a good idea. = @ )

I love the Nodachi. The curve of it allows me to roll it close to my body for dagger range fighting, slowly extending it out into short spear range as the engagement range changes. It can even be effectively thrown.

Your "I believe" button or your "what if" button works great. Love you imagination. I started following as research for a book. Thanks for remembering your fantasy audience for time to time.

MOVE! Is a primary doctrine in Japanese Jujutsu (and kenjutsu, bojutsu, ...). Never be in that one square foot of real-estate that your attacker wants you in. MOVE, preferably off-line of attack. We even have a walking kata whose function is to get you moving as on-balance and efficiently as possible. It's fascinating how reality based martial arts have very similar principles. Mostly, I suppose because there are only a few ways to do thing correctly and if one's techniques weren't functionally, they didn't live to pass on their techniques.

Matt can you please do a video about the use of throwing knives in combat but not as a orimary weapon, just as one more tool in your arsenal

It's good to hear "forte" pronounced as one syllable. Too many people are in their foibles when supposedly discussing their strengths.

Ok - since we're discussing fantasy settings here: What does the swordmaster recommend to his pupil in case of fighting really big enemies with really big weapons? Something like a 3-meters tall ogre with a club or a giant trying to hit you with a young tree he ripped from the ground?

@inactiveaccount8851

2 жыл бұрын

Momentum and inertia are both weapons and weakness. Once the trajectory is set on a 3m tree it's very hard to change. Also scaling up objects doesn't necessarily scale up the speed. They will swing at the same speed, but have more distance to cover, and take longer to swing. But Matt's advice still holds. 1. Move 2. Stay out of range and snipe (this may need to be a missile weapon vs upscaled opponents) 3. Close, immobilise the weapon and attack (less applicable to upscaled or heavily armoured opponents unless you can swarm them with numbers)

@ServantofBaal

2 жыл бұрын

Learn parkour and climb the ogre/giant like it's Dragon's Dogma/Shadow of the Colossus

@HH-hd7nd

2 жыл бұрын

@@inactiveaccount8851 Immobilising the weapon is not possible in such a scenario - a giant is strong enough to lift his weapon AND you no problem.

@wolfensniper4012

2 жыл бұрын

@@HH-hd7nd you can actually make the giant stuck its weapon in some place

I love that you bring in hypotheticals for us nerds.

Not quite the point, but this does to soem extent illustrate why a longsword is a pretty nifty self defense carry. The additional mass and the possibility of using two hands bridge the gap to bigger two handed weapons by a bit, while the weapon still can, more or less be conveniently carried on the side.

Mental image: sidestep turn while unsheathing sword and slash opponent without flinchings. Reality: mixing side step, 1/8th turn and sword stuck in the sheath, successfully stopping blow with the hardest part of the body. Credits roll.

This is good advice, I learned all this through trial and error fighting pole-ax fighters in LARP. Left out the fact that it is much harder to use larger weapons at ranges shorter than their overall length. So if I'm chest to chest with a pole-ax fighter I'll be able to use my dagger to end them far better than they can use their pole-ax to defend themselves

Interesting direction 4 the show, I approve

Awesome!

Interestingly, I watched two videos to dinner just now, this and Adam Millard's one about nostalgia in games, and both of them off-handedly mentioned the "arrow in the knee" line. And as Adam pointed out, it's "in" the knee, not "to" the knee like most people seem to remember it. Edit: Though further research (reading a random comment) suggests there might've been one guard who actually did say "to" the knee.

Having gone dagger and sickle vs great swords. Hands are good targets, but catching an attack at the end of its arc and moving past the point/edge. It’s amazing how difficult it is to change hand positions and reach when someone is stabbing you in the center of mass.

my advice would be to just run. odds are, just because something is big does not mean they are slow. However, hearts still gotta pump. so moving as fast as a normal sized human an orc probably will tire out way faster to keep up. So ranged weapons, or tire them out.

I always move into the opponent's strike so they don't have the room to maneuver with their big heavy weapon but I do with my short sword. I step into their strike with a parry to force their weapon in the opposite direction my strike is going to hit. I use the momentum of a spin while immediately grabbing the arm on the side of my pending strike to pull them in the direction I just came from to throw them off balance while putting myself either directly behind them or the rear oblique. My strike hits their back if it's just a game, otherwise I'm hitting the back of their legs and up to their arm. I'm making it sound more complicated than it is. It's just step in, parry, grab, pull, spin and slash. All in one movement. I used to be a part of a full contact medieval fighting sport called Dagorhir. It was a ton of fun and I miss it greatly.

I'd love to see you review Scorpion Sword and Knives' "Leviathan Axe," inspired by the God of War video game series. Its full tang, which is something I've never seen in a two-handed axe before.

I'm sliding my hands on my shaft as I'm watching this.

Grappling with Trolls!? As an assistant sword master, i'd advise the pupil to invest quite a few stat points to their strength ability score!!!

another potential issue with closing distance on what you think is an overhead strike is that they can easily stab with the pommel side from that same windup, wont be as bad as taking an overhead from an axe but it will be quicker and harder to defend

Excellent video, and very helpful for my world building. Though if my adventurer/warrior was fighting a warhammer fantasy/warhammer 40k type of orc/creature, who has longer arms and are built like a gorilla, then how would you be able to grapple their weapon? They would clearly be able to swat you aside with ease, or grapple the adventurers arm/weapon, mayby even tear it of. Plus they are also fairly fast and have good reaction time. How would you deal with that kind of opponent?

0:00 thank you!

Thanks for the advice, will try next time I face them IRL.

To borrow a reference: "YOU GOTTA MOVE!"

Cool video

I would add that for monster with super human strengh be quick to leave after aproaching since grappling with them would be quite disadvantegeous.

Matt, you certainly should once more read D.A. Kinsley about sliced-cuts of tulwars.

I feel I just leveled up. ❤

I recently wrote an arming sword vs greatsword fight in my novel a little while ago. Thanks; this will be a huge help for rewriting the fight.

so basically guts versus Griffith their first duel being ideal situation for the small weapon wielder and the second duel being the big weapon wielder winning

I'd also add staying away from an opponent is great if your plan is to buy time or wait for help. However if you've gotta take them out yourself, meaning no help is coming and there's no environmental factors that could do it for you, you have to close the gap as quickly as you can. In this scenario, they out-range you by nature of your weaponry, so staying where they can potentially hit you and you can't hit them is a super bad idea. The longer the fight goes on, the more chances they have at landing a hit, the less likely you are to survive the encounter. Unless your plan is to tire them out and wait for an opening when they're slow and out of breath. But still.

Would a hanging guard against something like a Dane axe not run the risk of the axe-head meeting your skull before your blade could block the shaft of the weapon?

@richard6133

2 жыл бұрын

Or, if it was a full strength blow, simply crashing through your guard, moving your arm by sheer force, and striking you in the head anyhow? Remember, we're talking an abnormally large and strong humanoid creature in opposition.

@Matt_Alaric

2 жыл бұрын

@@richard6133 That as well! Though at least in that case you'd be getting hit by the back edge of your own sword first, which is hopefully blunt.

Unlike the Mediterranean dandy from HBO's _Game of Thrones_ series, the sword master from Bravos who was teaching Arya in the book was bald and Matt Easton like, just like our Matt here.

Makes me think of the movie Rob Roy. The little dude just dancing around Liam neeson

8:55 The hanging guard is a particularly weak one if the strike is a little lower then anticipated, or the attacker slides down on the blade. I would rather use a regular guard in this scenario, even though I'm generally a huge fan of the hanging guard.

Cool!!

"How to fight an enemy with a massive weapon" Fireball, just fireball....

I wouldn't like to get close to a gigant creature for fear to make it a hand-2-hand fight. If there is no time limit and I can dodge the creature fine enought, my logic says to fight defensive until it wears of. A gigant creature should have less endurace because it has a bigger body to move, so it should wear of pretty fast.

Me during the first 12 minutes of the video: "I'm not sure if this guy knows what he's talking about." Matt: "Don't take an arrow to the knee." Me: "Ok, he's the real deal!"

Matt, is brass or bronze better for a knuckle guard? Thank you.

That advice applies pretty well if you're fighting something like a human. But if you step in on a troll or ogre he's still a troll/ogre. Which means that even if you're in armor he's able to kill you with his bare hands. Best choice against an opponent like that is an even longer weapon (like a long spear) or ranged weapons.

"If I was the sword teacher in the game" Let's face it, that's bound to happen one of those days as some kind of easter egg.

Would be interested in you theorizing weapons to combat such enemies - it seems like if a people would be confronted by a giant enemy regularly, they would construct specialized weapons to deal with them