Id like to see a Claymore, Sickle, and a Cutlass. Maybe even a DanDao. Also, Id suggest putting the stats for each weapon on the page.

Uprating and subscribing purely because it's nice to run into another person who knows his history and has the same enthusiasm for practical swordplay. Very cool stuff.

Huh, good to know. I'll send that request as well.

@Azing:
The term "foil" comes from the fact that men would wrap foil around their blades to blunten them for training. A foiled weapon just means a blunted sword (fencing sabres are foiled sabres and fencing epees are foiled epees (this is also whence the meaning "to foil a plan" comes)).

But as foiling the weapons did not prevent the hundreds of deaths per year, a bendable weapon was created as a training weapon for the rapier. It was nammed the foil, as it was basically just a foiled weapon.

The foil as a fencing weapon is directly descended from foiled rapiers, although foil fencing has been changed much since the days of rapier training, to make it more appealing to watch.

So you are right in that foil fencing is not ment for rapiers, it is ment as a sport; but it is directly descended from rapier and small sword training.

Post Script:
If you are able to help, that would be great; send me a friend request, and we can talk more.

I did say in my fourth post that they weren't invented in the US, but foil fencing wasn't meant for rapiers. Rapier fencing went extinct, tohugh I don't remember the exact reason.

@Azing:
There are records of early sabres from the 9th century (800s CE), so it's clear that the Americans did NOT invent them. Sabres were used very commonly during the napoleonic wars.

The sabre in this pack does have quite a strong bend, but so did many in real life. Some sabres were straight, some had subtle bends and some had strong bends. This one is just modeled off one of the latter.

Fencing weapons are designed to bend, thus the blades are created differently, but the techniques which which they are used are much the same (except with foil fencing, modern foil techniques can be quite different to the techniques with which one would wield a rapier).

Oh, my bad, I miswrote. The sabre wasn't invented in the US, it was an adaption of the turkish scimtar, but the sabre did have a MUCH more subtle bend.

Also, if, you'd like help with this mod, I'd be glad to assist, though I too am not yet a modding expert.

Although I'm sure there are MANY different variations to each type of sword, sabre, foil, and epee are all fencing stlyes meant to train a person to use the sword in combat, such as on a battlefield or in duels(sabre's an exception for duels, since it was invented later). It wouldn't make sense if they trained their students with swords that weren't the same as the practice blades. Also, I too have seen real sabres, foils, and epees, and they do look nearly the same as the practice blades. Perhaps yours is different because it wasn't an epee meant for actual use, or maybe it's just a different type of epee. One last thing: I'm pretty sure sabres were invented in the 1800s in the US, so I don't think that the napoleonic design is the most common one.

@Azing: CONT~
And finally:
Sadly this pack does not custom animations; I would love it if it did, but unfortunately I do not have the experience with Skyrim's engine to add them in.

@Azing:
I'm an épéeist (an epee fencer), so I know fencing weapons quite well, but I think you are confusing fencing weapons with their combat counterparts, for which the fencing weapons were designed as training weapons.

A fencing sabre may be stright, but most combat sabres are curved, and the cutlass is in fact a type of thick, short sabre. Although there are straight sabres, the sabre in this pack is a cavalry sabre, based on the most common, napoleonic design.

A fencing epee's blade is indubitably triangular, but the blade of combat epees are not. As I type this, I have both one on my fencing epees, and a combat epee next to me, and I can see the comparison between blade types quite well. As for the bell-like guard, fencing epees have these, but many combat epees did not.
The following image is not of mine, but of a napoleonic era epee:
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/74/c8/63/74c863227957349b07de7e42df50ff00.jpg

I hope you don't mind my input, sorry if it got annoying.

I did want to ask though: did you make the swords match their fencing styles, unlike the wild swinging of Skyrim? As a sabre fencer, I too would appriciate a mod that does this.

One last thing: while I'm unsure about the place of origin for an epee(definitely somewhere in Europe though), sabres were invented in the 1800s in the US.

Oh and I forgot to mention, but the diffeence between sabres and cutlasses is that sabres have wider guards, and the blades are straight, not curved, unlike a cutlass.

If you'd like, I can provide you with pictures of practice sabre and epee blades; while they are not ACTUAL swords, they are exactly the same besides being blunt, and they may give you a better idea of how sabres and epees look.

Actually, if I may just add: foils and epees were invented sometime in the 15th century, rapier fencing went extinct, since flaws in the fencing style led to the demise of its students, and sabres weren't invented until the 18th century. According to your screenshots, you also have the appearance of epees and sabres all wrong. First off, you're confusing sabres with cutlasses, two enirely different swords with different histories and fighting styles. As for the epee, the problem is that the blade should be more triangular, and the guard you have for it is that of a sabre, not an epee. An epee's guard looks more like a bowl.

add a Spanish Rapier

why cant i find it in addons

PLZ ADD MORE

@carlofberrino:
Sorry, I should have said in the description that they are under steel and require the steel smithing perk.

oh nevermind i found it

hey could you help me out? for some reason the swords arent appearing in the forge and i dont know whats wrong

Awesome. Thanks! =D

@Shimbius:
The Epee is "070012C4".

What's the ObjectIDs? I thought it would b cool 2 have a fencer who starts out with an Epee and uses it for the entire playthrough like a unique personal blade or somethin like that =D

@Coffee Run:
Yes.

Oh good it's back, I was worried for a second. Are you still thinking about adding a rapier?

First time I've used your Direct Download Link. I wish all mods here on Steam had this option. That way, Mods can be saved until actually used without taking up space. This is the way it should be done! Just wanted to say thanks for putting it up its VERY convienent.

nice job

Sorry for deleteing the first upload and re-uploading, but I was having some issues with the update process.