Ambush CG

And to be fair, Shadiversity is kind of crap when it comes to historical combat anyway. The HEMA community views him as a bit of a joke. Matt Easton & Dave Rawlings are much better if you're interested in that sort of thing. For one, they actually teach, work from historical sources, and don't get caught up dog-whistling to neo nazis. ;-P scholarvictoria.com/2021/07/24/lets-be-honest-about-hema-a-response-to-shadiversity/

BHALEN

Well, I pulled out my old Fiore manuscript pdf and It does have the strange look of being a heavily altered 'True Window'... Which I was thinking of offhand but thought "Nah, It can't be, the footing and hand position is wrong"

TheJackinati

The fact he's left handed again throws me off. But isn't it a slightly aborted "woman's guard". I'd guess the leg is out of position due to bad footing or the blow arriving mid step and him stumbling a bit.

AC

Now we desperately need an image of such a ferocious and cool looking orc plowing Rowan's wife.

ClearMadness

Denovo I'm not Shadiversity, I'm just a boring regular nerd lol. On second though Tharingail I'd say you're right, though my understanding of German longsword is non-existant outside of watching youtube videos (I was taught the 'Italian' way). It definetly does remind me (Upon second glance) of one of those fancy German guards :P Does remind me of me though. That's what my guards turned into when my teacher fought against me lol, Six and a half foot tall bastard with some mean blows! (In my defence, I was a novice) Now I just sit at home doing some weird eclectic mix of self-taught Jogo do pau and Figureido! :P Edit: On third thought... I'm not even sure if Fiore even has a guard similar to that. Its been a few years but I don't remember anything similar to that guard... Hmmm

TheJackinati

Long guard is with the point up. That looks like a left ochs with the image inverted which turned practically into a hanging guard, which is not a bad idea to parry an axe blow. Dig the art, someone actually looked at a reference for this one :)

Tharingail

Shadiversity, is that you?

Denovo

Looks like the orc is aiming..... . .....to get killed boyo :-p

Benevolent Cerc

Looks like he was in some form of 'Long guard' that got Orc bashed. Good boy Rowan... Use that orc's attack to yer advantage, sidestep him with the left foot forward and get the cunt in the neck! And lemme just say... This is a massive improvement on the previous image. Those sexy sparks bro!

TheJackinati

Yuuuuuup.

Lord Arioch

looks like he was doing a downward swing on rowans head but rowan backed away and parried at the same time.

tgreeny1

...good question.

What is the orc aiming at?

A Name Apart

Badass ⚔️

Robert Arctor

attack of the levitating orc!