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The Zweihänder is a recurring weapon in the Dark Souls series of video games. The video game Team Fortress 2 features an unlockable Zweihänder known as the "Claidheamh Mòr". The multiplayer video game Chivalry: Medieval Warfare features the Zweihänder. In its sequel, Chivalry 2, the Zweihänder appears as a skin for the Greatsword.
The original Sword of State of South Carolina (early 18th century) was used from 1704 to 1941, when it was stolen. [62] [63] A replacement Sword of State of South Carolina (1800) was used between 1941 and 1951. It was a cavalry sword from the Charleston Museum and was used in the War of 1812 and the American Civil War. [62]
Shown is an épée fencer, with the valid target area (the entire body) in red. The épée (/ ˈ ɛ p eɪ, ˈ eɪ-/, French:; lit. ' sword '), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing.
The term claymore is an anglicisation of the Gaelic claidheamh-mòr "big/great sword", attested in 1772 (as Cly-more) with the gloss "great two-handed sword". [3] The sense "basket-hilted sword" is contemporaneous, attested in 1773 as "the broad-sword now used ... called the Claymore, (i.e., the great sword)", [4] although OED observes that this usage is "inexact, but very common".
Schwerer Gustav was the largest-calibre rifled weapon ever used in combat, and in terms of weight, the heaviest mobile artillery piece ever built. It fired the heaviest shells of any artillery piece. [ 6 ]
The Chinese equivalent of this type of sword in terms of weight and length is the miaodao or the earlier zhanmadao, and the Western battlefield equivalent (though less similar) is the Zweihänder. To qualify as an ōdachi , the sword in question would have a blade length of around 3 shaku (90.9 cm (35.8 in)).
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