B. Cross wrote:Ok, ou obviously haven't faced a received a full stregnth Zornhay over your Zwerxh before you can finish it.
OK, I certainly have. Why would you assume otherwise?
B. Cross wrote:Zwerch defends the head with position, and the hands with angle. If those were bad, the crossguard may help you, but it may just as easily just fail under a strike (or it might go over and reach your fingers).
Yes, things can always go wrong. This doesn't change the fact that the zorn will almost always end up sliding down to the crossguard. The manuals also talk explicitly about protecting your head with the hilt (gehülz). Ringeck also says explicitly that you will catch his blade with your crossguard ("So vaschdü sine~ haw In din gehu~ltz vnd triffest In zu° dem kopff ~ ")
B. Cross wrote:So a zwerhau with a stick is entirely possible, even if not as easy as with a sword.... That's why people used swords, after all. But the path of the weapon, the position you need, the angle of the blade is the same, and IMO, that s what makes a zwerhau.
If you use the same angle of the "blade" (which a stick doesn't have), the opponent's attack will slide down your stick and hit your unprotected fingers. If you do something vaguely zwerch-like with a stick you need a rather different mechanic to keep your fingers safe.
You will have a quite different set of followups since you can't slice with the stick.
There will certainly be an analogous technique, but that wasn't what you said. You talked about a
complete equivalent.-Andreas