/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

>>7846981
it's hard to see in this picture but my longsword has a thrusting cap and is fairly flexible. I also have an arming sword modified this way to illustrate period techniques. it greatly illustrates the flaws in a system when the most of attacks utterly negates the AcL fighting system.

The aforementioned ACL practice was a cross gaming event down here in florida where different fighting groups helped train with each other. I was demonstrating what my own group allows in order to help train some would be team USA fighters for BOTN. And the way they fought left them vulnerable to a variety of lock and thrust maneuvers, You could also use them to take slashing or swinging strikes as well.

It further illustrates that even in the "hardest of hardcore" fighting groups excluding targets and attack methods leads to some serious game breaking habits becoming the norm. No combat exists in a vacuum, and when you remove things that fundamentally effect a fight, like thrusts and head shots it adds more meta levels to the system.