User blog comment:The Deadliest Warrior, Jr./Landsknecht vs. English Musketeer/@comment-24.71.19.35-20110401020132

i would like to throw out there that the Zweihander or Doppelsword is not slow, not clumsy and not heavy. the heaviest Zweihander i have seen weighs 13lbs. and is 6 and a half feet long. a properly built Zweihander is perfectly balanced out due to the pommel and such. the whole thing can be weilded at long range by the long handle, or in close quarters by the handle between the hilt and parrying spikes. these swords when used by a trained Landschneckt where said to be wielded with immense speed and strength, plus the combat techniques to it make it so that with each swing you go into a whole new stance which can be used defensivally or offensivelly. i have not wielded one myself, however i have seen many reviews, historical documentaries, and read many articles as well as used a training blade that was balanced like a zweihander and meant using steel bracers and steel lining the inside of it to be heavier then most zweihanders, and it was easily weildable in all fronts. on another note, landschneckts are some of the best trained mercinaries on the field, hence why they where payed double the normal mercenaries. also landschneckts didn't wear much armor, in fact in most articles i have read, all they where armor wise is the clothes on there back and steel chest plate. plus on top of that, from what i have read they where the best mercenaries money could buy at the time, the most skilled combatants etc... wouldn't soldiers with that kind of training and such be disciplined?

from what i have read on the Landschneckt i would give all to the landschneckt besides the long range... although they did also use crossbows........... and longbows... but still against a rifle...

however the mid range should be the Zweihander... at close range landschneckts would more often then not switch to there longsword or short sword...

anyways whats done is done, i guess things can't be changed now... oh well,