>Another effective tactic would be to begin with a disarm -- strike >at the rapier itself rather than the wielder. Pin the blade, even >briefly, and you can snap it, or bend it sufficiently to reduce >its usefulness; advantage greatsword, from then on. The rapier fighter would have to be incompetent to allow that to happen. Bull-fighters do not attempt to outbull the bull, and neither would a any rapier fighter with half a brain. >In short... >it's never that simple. Very few things in life are, but my money's still on the rapier fighter. In fact, I'll double down.