And when Knives McGee can be divested of his disturbing number of daggers, dirks, stiletto's (this list goes on for a while), handed a halberd and thrown into the ring with Fred "It's Hammer Time" Pounder, professional luchador (rudos, naturally) and meat tenderiser, for no loss of skill I will concede that you have a meaningful point. But Exalted, and for the most part the Storyteller system, is not that granular a game.
Honestly, it follows fairly well. A lot of learning to fight in my experience is attitude and body motion; things like footwork, positioning, economy of motion, and the psychological readiness to do violence to another human being without hesitance. Yeah, there's certainly a degree of specialisation for specific tools, but Pale Wolf's essential point, that armed and unarmed combat are not nearly so neatly divided as people seem to think, is essentially correct.
Yes, although not hugely. Instead of 'just as proficient', say instead, 'not less proficient enough to be worth writing mechanics for', at least not when we've already got Specialties/Styles.
Yes, this clearly makes no sense.
Then it's not a problem for Floyd Mayweather to have a three-dot specialty in boxing to get him up to those levels, and display basic competence at fencing because of his various transferable combat skills. Which, frankly, makes much more sense, because those are far more transferable.
Not without training.
That's just having high physical stats, and probably reasonably high athletics. Which would be just like a master swordsman is probably at least mediocre at a mace, because he has Dex 5 Melee 2(swords 3). Seven dice is a lot for mortals to be throwing at a problem, after all.
-5: White men can't rap.
Doesn't matter how fast he can run between the wickets if he can't put willow to leather.
