Dadao

March 4, 2010 12:45 am | Uncategorized

Dadao
What’s your favorite melee weapon from your culture?

I’m of Chinese descent and mine would be the Dadao sword. It wasn’t only used far back but also in world war 2 against the Japanese imperialists. It also looks badass to me and can take a person’s head off with a swing.

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Add a description or picture of it, if you can. If you don’t know any melee weapon of your ancestry then just feel free to choose any from other cultures. ;)
I said melee idiot. lol
Fine I’ll just say bayonet for you Animal. lol
OK sweetgirl I will count that even if it’s not melee. I shoulda just said ancient weapons. -_-”

Well my people are nomadic… soo… I guess a huge azz staff.
but we also had swords that resembled the arab scimitar http://www.realmcollections.com/images/p/Functional_Swords_Sinbad_Scimitar_Swor_2006_92.jpg

HANWEI DADAO tests


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