Also, aren't rapiers are pretty adept at thrusting into the small, exposed parts of armor, or even between/under plates?
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Swords of any kind were hardly ever used in real battles, because they're all useless when you've been shot/skewered/crushed/burned by an enemy you can't even reach. Blunt force and stabbing are more effective than slashing. Katanas are for executions and cutting rolls of carpet, and only took so much expertise to craft because of the low-quality ore available. European plate armor was light and flexible enough to do cartwheels and swim in. Sieges almost always involved the catapulting of festering corpses over castle walls and/or poisoning water supplies/salting fields. Arrows were intentionally designed to splinter. Horses were obvious first targets. Hollywood sanitizes everything.
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I want you to touch that fence and tell me what you think. I'm sure the bears know.
That's what they were designed for when fighting armored opponents - piercing between the joints of armor and disabling the opponent. Plus, if a rapier blade breaks, the remainder of it becomes deadly sharp. If you aren't wearing any armor against a rapier (actually a thick padded leather or similar substance is the best protection against them), you're pretty much fucked either way, especially with their good range and quick thrusts.
Also: Would plow the shit out of that Tira Cosplay. Jesus.
Which is the best?
Since there's no Roots, I'll have to go with either Wu-Tang or Tribe.
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women.
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Alot of good ones, but tribe is my fav.
wtf am i listing to how is this on y pc >..> its amazing
Microsoft easter egg. They stopped adding random hidden shit like this back in 2002 or so as a policy to qualify Windows as "Trustworthy Computing."
"town," "cssamp1," and "flourish" should be in there too.