WHAT IT DOES

It adds four silver-plated elegant weapons for a more civilized age: a rapier, a parrying dagger, and for those of you more into knightly weapons, a broadsword and a two-hander sword too.

All have a slightly too long handle, to accomodate the game's animation moving the hand position on the hilt quite substantially between first person and third person. Ultimately I'm making game weapons not museum pieces, so they must fit the game animations.

All weapons do double damage to limbs and have twice the chance to crit.

The stated dimensions are calculated assuming that humans are about 5'10" tall.

The weapons are:

1. a cup-hilt rapier with a silver-plated blade. It has an about 37 inch long blade, measured from tip to where it meets the cup, about 1.1 inch wide, and with a diamond section for stiffness. The blade is one of the earlier models, broader and designed for both cutting and thrusting, i.e., it's more properly a Spada Da Lato blade. I had to do that because all the animations in the game are for slashing not primarily piercing.

It does decent damage per hit, but its main advantage is being a very fast weapon. I.e., you can pump some high dps, if you keep hitting the enemy.

2. a parrying dagger, which in this case means just a dagger with a very wide cross. I.e., it doesn't actually do anything extra for parrying, and is usable as a normal dagger. It has an about 11 inch long blade, and about 1.1 inch wide.

For damage and speed, it's identical to the rapier.

3. a broadsword, loosely based on Oakeshott Type XVIIIa swords. The fancy ricasso isn't particularly historical for that type, though. "Broadsword" is perhaps misleading, as it's actually a pretty slender sword, by war sword standards, about 1-3/4 inch broad, and with an about 34-1/2 inch long blade, measured from tip to hilt. Just like for the others, it's a very stiff diamond-section blade and a nasty tip for piercing, though this one also sports a sharper edge for cutting.

It hits considerably harder per hit than the rapier, but it's proportionally slower, so it works out to about the same DPS.

4. The Great Dane: A two-handed Oakeshott Type XVIIIe sword. The blade is about 41-1/4 inch long, about 1-3/4 inch broad at its broadest, and makes good use of taper and distal taper to be actually a light and nimble sword for its size. It is primarily a stiff piercing sword, like all diamond-section blades, but its cutting abilities should not be underestimated. It has a narrower ricasso next to the hilt, so one can grab the blade and use the sword as a short spear, and a short fuller that barely goes the length of the ricasso.

The XVIIIe was used almost (but not completely) exclusively in Denmark, hence the name I gave it. Sorry, I just couldn't resist.

It does twice the damage of the rapier per hit, but also swings only half as often, so again it works out to about the same DPS.

HOW TO GET IT

It's in the museum of history. Don't go straight ahead into the Underworld, but take the large door to the left into the ghoul infested area. Now go left again into a small room -- don't go upstairs, btw -- and look for a funky crate behind the desk. It'll be locked, but it's a very easy lock, so you can pick it at zero skill just fine. Still, bring a hair pin or two.

HOW TO INSTALL IT

Extract the archive, with directories, in your "Data" folder. Select it in the list of plugin files in the launcher.

HOW TO UNINSTALL IT

Delete the .esp file from your Data directory.

Delete the SOSB folder in both the Meshes/Weapons and Textures/Weapons folders.

CONFLICTS

It shouldn't conflict with anything.

VERSION HISTORY

1.04:
First Fallout3 release