User blog comment:KevlarNinja/User vs. User battle: KevlarNinja vs. Swg66/@comment-181289-20101005235923

The long sword, is also known as a hand and a half sword. It's arguably the most verastile sword ever made, it can thrust, hack, slash. You can use it in one hand or two, you can smash a with the pommel. They can even be held by the blade and use the cruciform hilt to hook under the opponents legs and pull there legs from under them, or when a man does an over head guard, you can disarm them by using the cruciform hilt to hook them blade and yank it out of there hands.