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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.
Zweihänder Grim & Perilous RPG or Zweihänder is a 2017 dark fantasy tabletop role-playing game designed by Daniel D. Fox. Zweihänder won two gold ENNIE Awards. Zweihänder was designed for unusually punishing combat.
The Scottish name "claymore" (Scottish Gaelic: claidheamh mór, lit. "large/great sword") [17] [18] can refer to either the longsword with a distinctive two-handed grip, or the basket-hilted sword. [citation needed] The two-handed claymore is an early Scottish version of a greatsword.
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".
Kalypso Media Group is a German video game developer and publisher.Founded in 2006 in Worms, the group includes four companies in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States and has studios, including Realmforge Studios, Gaming Minds Studios, Claymore Game Studios, and Nine Worlds Studios.
A common weapon among the clansmen during the Jacobite rebellions of the late 17th and early 18th centuries was the Scottish basket hilted broadsword, commonly known as claidheamh mor or claymore meaning "great sword" in Gaelic. British Major Jack Churchill (far right) leads commandos during a training exercise, sword in hand, in World War II.
Duel, a game of tactical combat-oriented role-playing, is a 36-page 8.5" x 11" book written by Paul Arden Lidberg and Raymond Greer, with cover art by Phil Morrissey, and interior art by Morrissey, Margaret Schnepf Carspecken, and Marty Salzman. [1] It was published by Nightshift Games in 1992. [2]
Like other Milton Bradley/Games Workshop partnership board games HeroQuest and Space Crusade, Battle Masters was designed by Stephen Baker, who later went on to design the popular game Heroscape. In Germany it is called Die Claymore-Saga , in France Seigneurs de guerre and in the Netherlands Ridderstrijd .