Long (V7)

Notice

The following rules are from an out of date rule-set

From the Rulebook

Slashing, piercing, or bludgeoning weapons more than 36 inches up to 48 inches in total length. The pommel and handles of the weapon can be no longer than 1/3 of the weapon's total length. If used to slash or bludgeon, at least 2/3rds of its length must be strike legal.

The pata is a double-edged tapering long-sword with a katar-like punch grip inside an integral steel hand-guard and vambrace (arm guard). Said to be the most effective and hardest to master of all Indian swords, the pata was essentially a cavalry weapon used variously from the 16th to the 19th centuries by Moghuls in northern India, Hindu Mahrathas and Sikhs in the Punjab.