How is underwater swordfighting going to be handled? Hopefully, it ought to be very different from land swordfighting. I think the guy that wrote that AQUAMAN issue of LEGENDS OF THE DC UNIVERSE or whatever where Aquaman fights the Joker put it best: "use water wrong and it stops you...use it right, and you fly!"
Yep. I'm not worried about the water-resistance -- after all, it's just as hard to throw a haymaker underwater as to swing a sword, but Aquaman's been doing that for years, too. The undersea races are strong enough to overcome it.
But swordfighting in a medium where you don't have to stay on the ground is cool. Of course, if you aren't braced against anything, it diminishes the power behind blows, and "high ground" is a strength for cannon, not blades (in swordfighting, being on lower ground means you can go after the other guy's legs, while he has to reach farther even to get to your armored bits), but it's still got possibilities.
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