Talk:Mercedes Marten/@comment-83.49.42.180-20130718161919/@comment-71.230.38.10-20131212070813

Actually, you'd be better off swinging a rapier or fencing saber around like that than a broadsword. Broadswords are heavy; using one efficiently one-handed would involve precise, limited swings, unless you were sure of a killing strike.

I think it's pretty safe to just say that DD subscribes to the hollywood view that more dynamic sword-swinging is more exciting for fiction than realistic fencing.

They aren't wrong.