[Regia-NA] The Nasal: What's it for?

[Chris Boulton]

You draw the sword for the bloody slaughter after you've broken the enemy's
line - why work so close as at swords length when every other bu**er's using
a spear? The problem doesn't arise, as you wouldn't do it if your weapon
side was directly threatened at that moment.

Chris.

> I hope you have someone reliable as your right-hand man as this sounds
like
> you've nicely opened up your right side for an equally nice spear thrust
> from your opponent's left-hand man - aaaargh !
> Martin
>
>
>
> > As a re-enactor with a fair bit of battlefield experience I find it
quite
> > easy to imagine the alterations to our mode of combat to turn it into
the
> > real thing. A classic when parrying a sword cut to the shield side of
your
> > head with your sword rather than your shield, is the backhand cut across
> > your opponent's face which naturally follows. This would be quite a
> powerful
> > cut with a horizontal path, and still leaves your shield in optimum
> position
> > for defence. The nasal bar would help to protect against such a cut,
which
> I
> > believe would not be uncommon.
> >
> > Take your sword in hand, assume position facing imaginary opponent, move
> > sword across to the left blocking imaginary blow from high left, notice
> > you're now inside imaginary opponent's guard, launch mighty backhand cut
> > across imaginary opponent's face, go into garage, find polyfilla to
repair
> > chunk you've just taken out of the wall plaster, do it outside next
time.
> >
> > Chris.
>