Timeline for What would be the best way to fight a duel with lightsabers?
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| Feb 20, 2019 at 1:08 | comment | added | John | one problem you see a lot is someone getting stabbed through the midsection and stopping their swing for some reason, even if you pierced the spine they will continue the swing, if you didn't hit the spine people can keep fighting for several minutes. | |
| S Feb 19, 2019 at 23:39 | history | suggested | Glorfindel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 19, 2015 at 20:11 | comment | added | Jens | By making sure your's is longer. Much longer. | |
| Dec 18, 2015 at 17:54 | history | edited | TrEs-2b |
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| Dec 17, 2015 at 19:49 | answer | added | m t | timeline score: 0 | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 17:10 | history | protected | Samuel | ||
| Dec 17, 2015 at 16:06 | comment | added | Michael | @Wingman4l7 Aw, snap! I had the idea of using the force to actually hold the blade, or multiple blades... imagine your opponent standing 20 feet from you, but his blade (or two or three) suddenly rushing at you swinging wildly as if held by Jedi hands, surrounding you, coming from all directions... | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 13:28 | answer | added | raven | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 12:28 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | "will cut through their targets independent of velocity" - FWIW, I don't think this is true in Star Wars canon, but I'm sure the issue is argued both ways all over the internet. | |
| Dec 17, 2015 at 0:10 | comment | added | Dronz | @JDługosz It was discussed on a SFSE site recently that in the first Star Wars trilogy, Lucas' idea was that the activated sabres actually had quite a lot of inertia, so they had to be used like heavy medieval swords. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 19:34 | comment | added | Wingman4l7 | After some thought, use of the Force should ideally not be considered as part of an acceptable answer -- couldn't you just use the Force to switch off your opponent's lightsaber, or misalign/damage its internal components? | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 18:17 | answer | added | Snow | timeline score: 11 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 17:44 | comment | added | Ed Plunkett | From a long way off, with a revolver. Like Han Solo did that one time in Egypt, in that other movie. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 16:17 | answer | added | Jim2B | timeline score: 12 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 15:48 | comment | added | JAB | @JDługosz The blade itself most likely is, but from my understanding (albeit influenced by pre-Disney Expanded Universe) the hilt itself has some sort of gyroscopic action going on which can be troublesome for those unfamiliar with the behavior. It's also not true that the blade can cut through anything; thick bulkheads will prevent immediate penetration even if the blade goes all the way through, as shown in Episode I, and various sources have shown characters blocking lightsaber blades with specific weaponry (KOTOR, and more canonically Episode III). | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 13:05 | comment | added | fgysin | First of all, there are almost no movies where even traditional swordsmanship/fencing/combat is shown in an even remotely realistic way (Rashomon excluded). Why? Because combat is normally over in seconds and would be very boring to watch. Look at sport fencing or Kendo for example... Who'd want to see this in a movie? | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 12:44 | answer | added | Bounce | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 9:54 | comment | added | RedSonja | Fight dirty. Cut the other guy's feet off while he's doing the macho posturing bit. | |
| S Dec 16, 2015 at 9:42 | history | suggested | SystemParadox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 7:36 | answer | added | Wingman4l7 | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 5:45 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 19 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 5:03 | comment | added | FraserOfSmeg | Turn it in... throw it in the direction of the enemy. Avoiding a randomly spinning 1.5m long object is not as easy as you might think. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 2:55 | history | edited | Vincent | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 16, 2015 at 2:43 | answer | added | Dan Smolinske | timeline score: 15 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 2:35 | comment | added | JDługosz | Is the blade weightless? | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 2:19 | answer | added | Cort Ammon | timeline score: 70 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 0:23 | comment | added | Christopher King | I think this cat has got it down. | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 0:16 | comment | added | Cort Ammon | Are you interested in normal people fighting, or advanced people like Jedi or Sith? One of the things mentioned in Star Wars canon is that non-force attuned people very rarely (if ever) fight with lightsabers because they are simply too dangerous without some level of prescience from the force. The combat plays out differently if we presume a level of force-attunement | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 0:07 | answer | added | Samuel | timeline score: 68 | |
| Dec 16, 2015 at 0:04 | comment | added | PipperChip | @TrEs-2b At least 4 of those moves show very strong resemblance to moves that Hans Talhoffer, Johannes Liechtenauer, Fiore Del Liberi, and other medieval sword masters tell you to do... minus the force parts, of course. Maybe Hollywood (and Lucasfilm) know nothing about sword fights? | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 23:41 | comment | added | Samuel | Very carefully. | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 23:34 | answer | added | PipperChip | timeline score: 4 | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 23:30 | comment | added | TrEs-2b | Someone has already thought of this imgur.com/gallery/rXss2 | |
| Dec 15, 2015 at 23:15 | history | asked | ckersch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |