Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site cepu.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!ittvax!dcdwest!sdcsvax!bmcg!cepu!scw From: scw@cepu.UUCP Newsgroups: net.games.frp Subject: Re: Fighting Florentine Message-ID: <223@cepu.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Apr-84 07:43:38 EST Article-I.D.: cepu.223 Posted: Tue Apr 17 07:43:38 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 18-Apr-84 08:20:33 EST References: <6990@decwrl.UUCP>, <981@qubix.UUCP>, <2429@watcgl.UUCP> Organization: VA Wadsworth Med. Center, LA CA Lines: 19 >It has been said that a sword fight should not last more than a >few seconds (10-20) or everyone involved doesn't know what they're doing, >personal experience has led me to believe this is true but what have >others found? >Even though this is net.games.frp I would appreciate direct >experience accounts rather than a theoretical extrapolations of AD&D or >Runequest. Well the longes duel fought lasted ~20 years (two French Cavalry officers started a duel in 1800 and finished it in 1820 ) I would suspect that a real sword fight would last much longer than 10-20 seconds probably on the order of 1-2 min (this interpolated from several years of fencing). -- Stephen C. Woods (VA Wadsworth Med Ctr./UCLA Dept. of Neurology) uucp: { {ihnp4, uiucdcs}!bradley, hao, trwrb, sdcsvax!bmcg}!cepu!scw ARPA: cepu!scw@ucla-locus location: N 34 06'37" W 118 25'43"