I'm looking around for some eastern melee weapons for inspiration and was wondering if anyone could post some pictures

Chain whips are pretty fucking cool.

youtu.be/TOWUe1z3GsA

Northern Chinese kung-fu has a set that uses one really long whip, too.

Boom. These are also cool. The Chinese had a plethora of weapons, both utilitarian and specialized. They were pretty eclectic.

I'm convinced of the superiority of the ji.

You mass produce the two different head types and ship them out in bulk to your armies, if a soldier damages or dull one piece, replace it and send the old one back to be reforged. Also ship out lots of 3, 6 and 9 (maybe 12?) foot poles, for hand weapon with shield (3ft), long weapon with shield (6ft) or pole weapon/pike with 9-12 ft ones. If the pole gets damaged, cut it down to the next smaller size, hell, could ship them with the sizes marked.

This way you are mass producing decent quality, easy to use, easy to make, easy to service weapons solving many logistics issues for your army.

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I like the jiang.

otherwise southeast asia has a lot of cool swords and weapons in general
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword#Southeast_Asia

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a karambit
youtube.com/watch?v=3pfDLbBM0NQ

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japanese weapons are gay

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All melee weapons are just variations of blade-on-stick or lump-on-stick. Coming up with new ones is easy. Just play with the shape a little.

That's basically what happened too. Also, my nigga.

what dis

That actually looks like a pretty good force-multiplying tactic.

See the two guys in pic related? See the yellow guy holding the big stick? That's a kanabo, which is moonspeak for "big fucking wood or metal stick, covered in spikes, and soon embedded in your skull." And as can be seen from the picture, it is being used to stop a silly katana-carrying Griffith cosplayer.

Okay, seriously - why is it not letting me upload the image. Have a link instead.

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I already know which picture you were going to post.

Chinese sleeve dart

I don't know anything about swords, but you guys seem like you do. What's the deal with the bendy Aladdin daggers like this? More likely to cause a mortal wound?

They can cause jagged wounds, yes. Think about how painful it is to be cut by a bread knife or steak knife. Now make it a larger wound, and drawn across an entire limb, or a torso. Now imagine trying to sew that up with all those nasty uneven skin flaps and cut depths.

Isn't there some heavier/longer version of the Naginata for use from horseback? Chinese?

Often it was a choice of aesthetics as the Kris, similar to the Sudanese Kujang or the Indian Katar, suggested status, magical powers, or wealth.

no you

the Horsechopper? Yeah. It's called a Guandao I think, named for the halberd used by Guan Yu, the god of war.

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what the fuck is this? this looks fucking cool

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>Urumi
You have to be a BAMF to wield this bitch.
youtube.com/watch?v=eMAsCuDFSUI

so its pretty much the chain gun of swords, since it has spin up time

I always thought the Fangtian ji looked cool. How functional was it?

essentially medieval riot batons

underrated 100 fold

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and the moon runes explained

>tfw your king is also a badass blacksmith

nip clubs are pretty cool

>Not posting a Double Voulge

*Autistic Grunting from Wei Yan*

>tfw you king, who is also a badass blacksmith, slays 100 foes with the very sword he forged

If what happened to Wei Yan happened to me, I too would probably be reduced to autistic grunting until I got my revenge.

Very. Spear for stabbing and ranked fighting, crescent blades doubled as de-horsing hooks and could open shield walls. As well as you know, cutting people. Though they actually weren't always sharpened.

how does this work?

Why don't you post actual historical cosplay instead of silly ASOIAF japanese take on the kanabo?

You wouldn't use something like a naginata on a horse though.

Kagitsuki naginata, just a naginata with a bronze crossbar, but you can do much more with this than with a typical one.

arent kanabos garbage? i've never seen one used that hasnt broken on the first strike, even historical reproductions

When I look at the weapon it seems obvious. So versatile and perfect for mass production for outfitting armies of 10's of thousands that were supposed to exist.

It really was.
greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com.br/2015/03/mandarin-duck-formation-p1.html
>In reality, the Mandarin Duck Formation was very simple and straightforward and did not require a high level of martial art skills nor complex maneuvers to be effective (Qi's army was comprised of peasants and miners, most of whom were illiterate). While Mandarin Duck Formation was designed for small engagements, it could be used in large scale battles numbering thousands of troops as well.

>greatmingmilitary.blogspot.com.br/2017/01/chong-di-tie-tou-che-Ming-bulldozer.html
>it is a four-wheeled wagon with an iron plough mounted at the front — essentially, a human-powered medieval bulldozer.
>A V-shaped iron plough is mounted at the front of the wagon. Each wing of the plough is three chi and six cun wide, and comes with several sharp blades to deter enemy assault. The wagon also has two wooden fences on both sides in addition to a passenger/cargo compartment mounted directly above its rear wheels, protected by wooden parapets on four sides.
>one primary purpose in mind — to spearhead assault against enemy formation or encampment, using its heavy frontal armour to protect other troops from enemy arrows, firearms and even small cannons, as well as clearing various obstacles and barricades such as caltrops, abatises and cheval de frise.
>Given the sorry state of Ming military during its twilight years, it was most likely that this wagon never saw actual deployment.
It is simply so... dwarven. It would be perfect to breach their pike formations during tunnel warfare.

It's hard to overstate the chaos and underfunding of the Sino-Japanese War.

We had a Mad Jack in the West, they had whole regiments of melee soldiers and an enemy way too prone to fight in close quarters.

Just make it completely out of iron and be an oni.

Why not give tridents to all the spearmen?

Anyone got any sword viagra?

In my opinion, this is probably the best-looking curved sword of all time.

And the fine-looking late Han dynasty ring-pommel sword with awesome bronze fittings.

Da dao ("big sword") glaives. The guandao (as used by Guan Yu) is one of these.

>Made in China

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Hm, normally when I see the term dadao used, it means something more along the lines of this.

Or like this.

That's a later form - in the book where the da dao chart is, there are pictures from the 1930s with dudes carrying da daos that look like the ones in your pic.

We talking Kanabo in here?

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Kanabo is not as brutal-looking as the Chinese Wolf-teeth mace

Reminder that the kama is used as a tool, not a weapon.

"dao" is essentially "curved blade", then a pre-fix is added, suggests different properties, though usage changes a bit over the centuries and it gets a bit confusing.

"dadao" is just kind of a larger version in one way or another. If "dao" was like our "sword"*, "dadao" would be "greatsword" which we understand is bigger but exact properties is unclear.

If that makes sense.

*"dao" seems specific to curved swords, a straight blade would be "jian" I believe. So it isn't even exactly like "sword" in English as it has the curved specification.

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>You wouldn't use something like a naginata on a horse though.
git gud scrub

The kama was, but there were fighting variants made by actual swordsmiths (rather than your local blacksmith) that were optimized as weapons.

Burmese dha

"An ivory hilted Burmese dah or commonly, dha. It is fitted with a high quality but later associated blade, probably from the Shan region. The blade of typical profile, narrow at the base and widening near the tip. It has a precisely ground wide fuller on each side that is accentuated by a thin engraved line. The spine of the blade is ridged, with a stepped section near the tip, a rather rare feature on these.

The most spectacular part of this dha is of course the handle. It's made of a single piece of ivory, finely cut with a kneeling figure in its base, and scrolling vines all-around. On the back of the kneeling figure stands yet another figure, situated in the center of the grip, completely cut loose on all sides. The figure holds a club of some sorts, its face is as finely articulated as the kneeling figure. According to a seasoned collector in this field, the design of the silver sleeve shows it was made for a native official and was not commissioned by the British East India Company."

"A fascinating little monograph is written on the subject, published in 1901, by Pratt. According to Pratt, the only towns in 1901 that still worked ivory were Mawlamyine and Pyinmana in present-day Myanmar. Only one carver was active in Pyinmana, and by far the best work was done in the coastal city of Mawlamyine where in 1901 three families were still active in the trade.2 Interesting, the same survey states that these artifacts were always made on order, never in anticipation of demand.

Pratt continues to describe how some of the ivory was bought from Shan traders or from working elephants that had died a natural death or broke a tusk.3 The total ivory carving business in Mwlamyine in 1901 made use of only 8-12 pairs of tusks.

Interestingly, he mentions the smaller tools used around this time are pieces of umbrella ribs that they sharpen on a stone to turn then into little chisels."

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Hold on, were bladed fans actually a thing? I always though it was just a dumb cartoon/comic/anime trope supposed to look cool

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Okay, I stared at this for a while then realized; it's an unstrung bow, right? One of those crazy laminated hornbows?

No, they were really a thing. You couldn't carry swords into court, but a fan was a requirement.

That is correct. It's inverted when unstrung, by the way, so the string would pull the arms out towards the left in this picture.

Yeah it's a bow. An Indian "kaman".

>Bladed fans
Not really.

There were sturdier fans with iron or brass ribs that could be used as an improvised weapon. There were objects that looked like fans that concealed knives. There were weapons that looked like a closed fan but were actually clubs that looked like fans.

But ninja fans that cuts you up? No.

Still, they were pretty effective low-radar weapons considering how prevalent different kinds of fans were in Japan at the time.

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