Quote Originally Posted by Conners View Post
With dual wielding: What are the problems involved with using two weapons of the same length (two katana, two daggers, two rapiers, etc.)?
As far as I understand, there's just not much point to do so.

Wielding weapons like that requires rather spectacular coordination, for no good purpose.

With most famous case of rapier and dagger, it was apparently considered practical, and covered accordingly, because short, nimble dagger with proper hand protection could cover completely different angles and distances than rapier or side sword, and thus be used to guard body, deflect enemy thrusts, bind his weapon and so on.

Apparently, there were some attempts at using two identical weapons like that, as well, but didn't seem to be really popular.



Two katanas particularly doesn't have sense, being mainly two handed weapon, and with their long handles and handling properties trying to operate two of them at the same time wouldn't really have any sense.