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[Incongruous]

Ok, this was on a channel four programme call "Dark ages:Barbarians". On it they had a group of sword experts who clearly stated that Anglo-Saxon swords were far more superior to those of any other nation/pepole including the japanese i.e the Japanese method os sword making was inferior to that of the Anglo-Saxons, the Anglo-Saxon swords were the sharpest and strongest around.
Yes, they all said that the sword could cut a man down the middle.
If you don't beleive me you can get the programme out, its really really good.

[ScionTheWorm]

Kingdom of Englisc will have some badass elite units...

I'm by the way doing progress in the unit modelling/skinning. 10 irish/scots almostdone. just to inform I guess I won't post them until the two factions are done though, maybe some teasers...

[Jarlabanke]

Did they mean superior at the time or through all time, as in Anglo-Saxon sword being superior to a 17th century Katana or just the ones made around AD 1000?
I must say I would be intrested in seeing the program as all temporary sources I've ever read praise the French swordsmiths as the best. I must say I'm curious
as to how you know how sharp a 1000 year old sword was when it was made, though I must say I've read about viking swords cutting paper to this day.

[King Ragnar]

Kingdom of Englisc will have some badass elite units...

I'm by the way doing progress in the unit modelling/skinning. 10 irish/scots almostdone. just to inform I guess I won't post them until the two factions are done though, maybe some teasers...

Teasers!!!! please

[Incongruous]

Yeah, please post some teasers.

[Incongruous]

I have been thinking about this for ages. You know the Englisc knights, I reckon that due to Englands complete isolation from the contonetal feudal system they could have their own unique look, perhaps much like the Rohirim from LOTR, thats actually what tolkien thought Englisc knights would have looked like if william was defeated.

[skeletor]

i'm not really sure but that's probably true, but the Rohirim, and most of Rohan's soldiers is on the movies very vikinginspierd. I thought of having that style on the early Englisc, and maybe the welsh, along with the viking's raiders. And give the British ones more Frankish/Norman style knights for the later unit's.

The faudal system spread all across Europe, and i guess at one pint or an other, the brit's would have adopted it too anyway. It reached norway and sweeden eaven tho they allso were pretty isolated by sea. I think the adoption of these political systems has alot to do with the relations betwen kings and nobles all over Europe. It was infact normal for noble sons and princes to be raised by other kings/nobles. And it was a way to determin witch king was the most powerfull (The lesser king wold rais the child of mightyest one)

-Skel-

[Incongruous]

I doubt that the Englisc kings would have adopted the feudal system, Englands system was the best around and the richest, infact maybe they would have not even introduced knighthood as they already had the equivelant in Thegns.