Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25396609-20170505174118/@comment-27447621-20170531041705

@SYUTK

1) True, strength can get you pretty far. I guess the reason I want a piercing or slicing weapon is because they've proven to be fatal to Grimm where much larger blunt-force blows haven't killed the Grimm outright. As far as we know, Grimm don't work like typical animals do. In every Grimm fight we've seen, especially when we see Qrow slice the Griffon in half during "Heroes and Monsters", we don't see anything that would cause death due to blunt trauma alone; namely, we don't see blood splatter, muscle, viscera, anything. This means (to me) that either a) RT is censoring themselves a bit (very likely) or b) Grimm don't bleed; which means no internal bleeding. And no visible bones (nothing, not even a spine) from when Qrow sliced that Griffon if half means they may not be able to be crippled (like we would be if we got a broken bone). I don't know. Nora's hit things hard enough to kill most animals and they've never died outright (that I can remember).

2) Yes, I know of sai and swordbreakers. I also know (going to your Fencing point) that while Rapiers were commonly used, they were used as sidearms. People would often use a swordbreaker or small buckler to block attacks because Rapiers were too thin.

The more you know.

I'm probably going to give Azure a Karambit. I've seen lengths of the knife that would lend themselves well to a pistol transformation, and it just seems right. I may change my mind later (as I often do) but that remains to be seen.