Short answer: Yes. They are pretty similar to historical swords and would be perfectly usable in real life.
The longswords are reasonably sized and shaped, they are not overly bulky and they have comfortable looking handles (maybe with the exception of the Dothraki arakh).
Jon Snow’s Longclaw looks like it’s based on roughly 13th-14th century longswords, just with a wolf’s head pommel. Ned Stark’s Ice resembles a claymore or a relatively small greatsword in size. Arya’s Needle seems inspired by rapiers and smallswords, although with a very short blade and a simple guard with only one ring. Gregor Clegane’s swords looks almost exactly like an Irish Gallowglass sword. The arakh appears like a hybrid between the Dacian falx and sickle swords like the Egyptian khopesh, the Central African Mambele or Abyssinian shotel.
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In contrary to good weapon design, the armor part is terrible.
I would say the most ridiculous armor design in the show is the coat of plate of House stark. There never been such pattern (with huge gap between each plates) used in historical piece.(http://ageofcraft.com/index.php?route=product/category&path=60_66).
For the plate armor(Most obvious among Knights of vale), the cuirass are too long that barring the movement of torso. Somehow, fauld lame didn't developed with the upper cuirass among Westeros world.(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hlIUrd7d1Q)
What about the ice weapons the Others use?
Simple answer to the videos title question. They've been chosen because of their use in history and purposes. Why anyone has needed to ask this is baffling, but least he's showing examples of their real world k own counterparts
The Arak was inspired by swords that were replaced by better swords for good reason. Like everything else about the Dothraki, it is only formidable because the author and the show-runners say so.
It is the hafted weapons in GoT that are ludicrous. The warheads are way too big and they would be much too heavy to be used repeatedly in battle. Once a weapon is heavy enough to incapacitate or kill, it is heavy enough.
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+Skallagrim Actually, if you are short, and you need longer reach, you take a polearm. Sword is basically a personal defense weapon, which means that it has to be practical to carry around and maneuver with. And that means that it must not be too long for person's height. Even historical swords were nowhere as large as they could technically be – the excepton were claymores and similar weapons, but these were designed specifically to deal with pike formations, not for a man-o-mano duel (albeit, they have been used as such as well). That being said, I do not remember exactly how long the Needle was.
i disagree with your assessment of short swords not being ideal for short wielders. In the cases of Needle and Sting they are also tailored for low-proficiency wielders (as their first swords) to assure close range capability as a last resort, not reach that could compromise up-close kill capability. There's nothing stopping either of those blades becoming backup weapons as their users gain skills and collect longer blades to carry in which case their compactness would assure they are always at hand should they be needed and that they are are always useful when the opponent has come too close for longer swords to attack.
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Curved…. Swords…..?
Good point on Ice, it is an executioner blade, as it was never intended for battle
The Arakh is pretty useless tbf
In the show they use the inner side of the curve to cut…the INNER side..while riding a horse. A sure way to get stuck somewhere and fall off your horse
wtf
fancy pommels, for a high class rightly ending
How about thenns axe(season 4 ep1) , Loboda axe(season 5ep7) , and tomound axe(season 7ep6)?
I don't think Needle was designed with combat in mind.
When he said Shotel I had war flashbacks to Lautrec
I think aryas sword is short so that she could hide it.
Yeah but the hammers are silly.
also Jon's sword longclaw is considered a bastard sword (hand and a half) in game of thrones Universe
needle is baisicly a dagger
3:26 the bottom one would the most accurate comparison of the arakh.
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Can you do witcher swords?
0:38 Don't see anything wrong with the pommel? It's not unscrewable! How are you supposed to end White Walkers rightly?
I am so sorry (but not really).
Skallagrim, the Khopesh is a Canaanite sword that was adopted 😉
I doubt that horsemen like Dothraki would be thrilled to be using a khopesh or any sort of sickle.
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Well aryas blade could be used as a longer dagger
aryas needle is a triangle shaped blade. man at arms made a really beautiful reproduction if you want to look.
These and the LOTR swords were all basically plain boring regular swords… Why would anyone wonder if they were functional in design?
Can you do a review on war hammer 40k weapons
I can see something wrong with all the swords you can't unscrew the pommels to end him rightly
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Yeah Ice is more of a ceremonial sword instead of one used in a fight. Ned also uses it to execute Will at the start of the series. This was until Twyin melted it down into Oathkeeper and Widows Wail. Sorry for going all GoT geek on ya😂
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Ice is an executioner sword, so it's not meant for combat anyway
Most certainly Needle is edged, since in Season 6 she cuts the light off with it to face the Waif. https://youtu.be/OIz117d9CvI?t=318
whoa wtf are those curved swords… can you even call that a sword… what's the benefit of having a sword that has a fucking 90 degree curve…
The beginning of this video is a decent mirror to the video you did on whether bows could be used as melee weapons. Simple, one-word answers.
The Wolf pommel is actually really unpractical. Wolves can't fly, therefore you can't throw them correctly. Without being able to throw your pommel at your foe to end him rightly, you're in a very big disadvantage.
believe me I'm a pommellogist
How about the weapons in RWBY?
0:08 got my answer and left jk. ofc i stuck around for the rest of this awesome video
"The Longclaw is a longsword…"
Don'tcha mean a bastard sword?
Get it? Cuz… Jon's a bastard? I'm funny.
Is thrusting more effective when the sword has sharped edges? (Considering the pointy end)
Wouldn't a smaller person also usually have less strength, and be less able to use a longer weapon? I've heard this argument with hobbits, too.
Longclaw's identified as a bastard sword. Is a bastard sword classified as a longsword, or is it specifically denoting blades of a length between an arming sword and a longsword, or specifically by the length of the handle allowing a hand-and-half grip?