Talk:Omen/@comment-99.173.141.167-20150202053427/@comment-108.226.134.165-20150224052020

The only place I've found that says Odachi were used on horseback was on wikipedia, and that portion has no source. I spent a good 3 hours looking up information and images for nodachi and horseback fighters. Raven's Sword is most certainly a nodachi, but nodachis were most certainly not used on horseback. The few images I've found of swords used on horseback are paintings in which the sword's blade would have been 5-6 feet long. The only videos I've seen have people using it on foot, even in practice. The sword seems impractical to use from horseback because it's a two handed weapon. Every strike either uses both hands, or the opposite side of the body to brace the sword. Barring an amazingly trained warhorse, this just wouldn't work in battle. The nodachi, from everything I've seen appears to be a weapon that is best used on foot in an open space for the reach and power advantages it provides, and with the body bracing method it can still be used in close quarters.