I dunno, I still think crack was involved somehow.

There we go. Better now?

What ever weapon that is seems highly impracticable.

>What ever weapon that is seems highly impracticable.

Gamewise, it is. Short range, difficult to get the hang of. On the other hand, once mastered, I've noticed she's useful against human opponents since her moves are confusing to watch/understand/predict (like Voldo) since the're so "non-standard".

>>3726
Yeah I got my ass kicked once by somebody that really knows how to use her. It's really really hard to predict what she's doing. Like Voldo or Yoshimitsu. And she has lots of chains and cancels and stuff. So just when you think you know what she's gonna do next, she does something different.

Magdalena?

The Darkness! \o/

Here she comes!

Reposting, for great justice.

Introducing, for whatever it's worth

I also have quite a collection of these oldies.

Another home-made, might be of some interest

>>3534
Here's a bigger one for ya.

Ok, that's that. I figured there were a few too many to include in the mass-wallpaper-dump thread I just did, so here they are instead. :-)

Yay Saber! <3

Why isn't there a "good end" for Fate? ;_;

...aaaaand I'm spent. Go ahead, click 'Reply' and view them all. :-)

>>3592

Where is this statue located, that is kick ass.

"The Motherland calls" in Stalingrad, err.. Volgograd, Russia. 82 meters tall.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motherland_Calls

>>3556

Taiwanese raiders? You mean Mongols, right?

Also, the forging methods (and beginning designs) for the Katana came from the mainland: China and Korea.

Also, the weeaboos of this thread have spouted so many Katana myths it makes me sick.

You guys should try reading up at swordforum. I'm sorry, I just can't quite believe the ridiculously bastardized story of Taiwanese raiders and combining straight and curved sword designs. The weeabooism here is also sickening, with the whole KATANA IS SUPERSWORD LOL thing.

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the main thing still is who uses the weapon, their experience and stuff. btw, katanas are usualy slice weapons (tho they CAN stab, they don't use it too often), and most european style swords were hack/slash and stab weapons. slice weapons are far less effective against thick armors than stab/slash weapons (since they deliver more force against it), but deal serious damage against not-guarded areas and deliver serious flesh wounds. and they are quite fast.
since we do not know how a fight between Samurai and knight would have ended, we may never know which was better.
about that "Samurais were shot first" comment, well its normal for ranged units to kill melee wielders first, especialy the fast ones.they deal far more damage once they're in range than the other units. Ranged weapons also have the contra that they tend to hit allies, if enemy and ally are in close combat/close to each other.
Samurai's were to charge first in those battles to get close as fast as possible, being the front line and thus the main target aswell.

Less bitching, more pictures

>>3435

>>Sakabatou: A reverse-blade sword. Basically a katana where the blade is on the other side of the blade. Not meant for killing people and unknown as to whether the sword was actually ever used by anyone.

HAHAHAHAHA. Nobuhiro Watsuki himself stated he created the idea of the Sakabato when asked to clarify it's origins. He said he was often embarassed when fans would claim the sword was real/owned an authentic one.

>>3435

Post fails.

First: Ninjatou. If it's DAGGER LENGTH, do you know what we call them? Daggers, not swords. The traditional weeaboo interpretation is of it as "a straight backed Katana", but that's fairly retarded. The oldest Japanese sabers were all straight backed. Plus, what's the point of carrying a SPECIFIC weapon type going "O HAY LOOK AT ME I'M A NINJA"? Existence is a bit dubious.

>>Gatana

Are you special? The K and the G sound is interchangeable. It still just reads 刀. This is a stupid differentiation; just a slight difference in pronunciation doesn't mean it's different. Fail.

>>Able to slice through meat and bone with little resistance.

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OP of OPs, DO YOU HAVE ENOUGH PROPER SWORDS?

How bout you people just post pictures and stop bitching? Makes this place look as bad as 4chan :D.

If you don't want someone to say that, then post pictures and stomp bitching.

>> you are fucking stupid they DON"T SPEND YEARS AND YEARS making single katana it takes about a year or two to make them and they don't fold them million times, it has yet to be proven that they fold million times only thousand or so maybe less I can be wrong, and also 20 grand sounds about right for a handmade katana then again you can spend that much on one that isn't handmade and 2 years swordsmanship..? come on try 9 fucking years going on 10 years and no one wants to hear you D&D points

so i hope you arguing idiots all realize that a "dangerous weapon" is a stupid term and i could kill you with a spoon before you could stab me with a sword because it all comes down to skill. you cant even compare a katana to a broadsword because they are used for completely different purposes. thats like saying you could replace a mace with a spear. idiots