Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20150517000450/@comment-26397825-20150601203911

Bajarias.josef wrote: in blanch's case the blade's rather large enough to use as a shield and his style involves direct parrying,semblance spam If it's big enough to be a shield, it wouldn't be a broad sword. It would be a buster sword or a great sword/overlarge claymore (in termes of width). Broad swords are the smae length as your standard 15th century longsword, just an inch or two wider at the most. I can nderstand defensive parrying, but parrying itself is designed to create an opening for attack, which would still make the sword more offensive than the lance, which is to keep the enemy at a distance.

Also, the cross blade - is it near the handle or tip of the sword? Is it near the handle of the lance? Is it supposed to act as something to stop the enemy from coming too close to the weilder or are they acting as the crossgaurd itself? Are the sides of the cross thin or more like the broadsword? How does he incorporate them into his style?