How realistic are Goblin Slayer's weapons, armor and tactics?

"That sword is too long to use in a cave" 3 mins later... picks up a spear

Remember: Goblin Slayer doesn’t use one reliable sword or weapon because he doesn’t want the goblins to get it. He plans ahead that he will die fighting goblins, so he doesn’t want them to take a strong weapon from his corpse and use it.

"Imagination is a weapon, those without it are the first to die" - Goblin Slayer Episode 2

"Goblin slayer's armor is a bit too fancy" Lol his armor is considered "poor man's armor, pathetic gears" in the anime

Goblin Slayer doesn't oil his swords, due to the fact that goblins have a heightened sense of smell.

I’m going to bet that the reason he wants his helmet visor to be impossible to move is so that a goblin can’t move it off of his face in a struggle. The only magic item he has is a ring of water breathing because it doesn’t fit on a goblin finger. Dude is ultra paranoid.

Doom slayer: who the hell are you? Goblin slayer: I'm you but medieval.

8:10 It's explained in the prequal manga, Year One. On his first job, he has to buy cheap weapons to use and he finds that after after only a few swings they break and the swings quickly grow less effective as they get caked in blood, meat and hit bone. So he starts picking up weapons from the enemies out of just practicality. His unwillingness to now buy nicer weapons is just a reflection of this. Also, on the comment about the horns on his helmet. In Year One, he gets the helment brandnew with horns. They end up breaking off and he figures since they were useless to the functionality of the helmet, he wouldn't bother getting them repaired.

I think I just realised why goblin slayer doesn't learn magic. Sure, the world is plagued by vancian magic which makes it unreliable on long campaigns, but healing magic seems like it'd still be extremely useful on the side. The real reason: Casting spells would require concentration. Concentration on something other than killing GAAAWBLINS. Of course he'd never pick up magic.

"That's almost overkill." Which would be completely in-character for him.

In world reasons why goblin slayer doesn't use bigger / magic weapons; 1 - killing dozens of goblins at a time slicks the weapon making it harder to handle 2- just because there MIGHT be room to swing a big weapon doesn't mean there always is. The adventurer in ep1 dies because he didn't account for the space. Smaller primary weapon means your muscle memory can't betray you. 3. Goblins are surprisingly capable of learning and adapting. He doesn't use a magic weapon in case they get their hands on it. This plays into the fact that he often discards his weapon if it is more opportunistic to pick one up. 4. They're heavy. Fighting dozens of goblins swinging a heavy weapon causes fatigue faster. He's used to fighting entire groups by himself - and he does so PRIMARILY with speed and intelligence by baiting them into traps and using tactics to nullify their numbers advantage. Bigger weapons take more energy to use, limit his mobility, and his ability to employ stealth. 5. They're goblins- he doesn't need a magic sword or an especially expensive weapon to kill them quickly. And killing goblins in a melee more effectively isn't worth limiting himself to having to mind his weapon. 6. They're expensive. the reward for goblin quests is low/ sometimes non existent. His priority is keeping his armor maintained, he can't afford to also maintain an expensive weapon that he's constantly using on dozens of bodies at a time.

The shield is for being able to hold a torch and have his hand free if necessary. Also better to have a shield when fighting multiple opponents, especially since they DO use blunt weapons like clubs etc.

If you read the 'Year One' manga for Goblin Slayer, you would see that both his horns were broken off by Goblin's, and he even mentions that they got in his way

He seemed to be forgetting about cost. There is an ongoing thing that goblin quests are very poor paying, basically making him the only experienced adventurer who would take them. Another thing is that goblins take the gear n equipment of fallen victims n he is fearful if he uses enchanted gear n dies, he would just create over powerful goblins as the light novel has shown.

"Your shield isn't needed if you're fully armored." Goblin slayer: "is that so?" decapitates goblins with shield

I love goblin slayer as the MC is very unique and not overpowered and used skill, knowledge and experience to defeated goblins and not overwhelming force. We also see him get fatally injured multiple times and he uses dirty/cheap tactics which adds to the realism and not plot armour heavy protagonist we see in fantasy settings.

In regards to tactics, I love when they execute a plan, the Elf cursing him and he says, "it wasn't fire, water, smoke, poison, explosives, or ect... I followed your wish." And the Elf's face just has the scared expression of "I really don't know how I'm going to die with this guy"

just one thing you got wrong, that the goblin slayer never uses a good, well forged weapon, nor the magic ones. the reason of this is he's afraid once he dies, goblin may take advantage of the weapon. this is the same reason why he don't keep notes, cuz if goblin gets the note, they learn from it. the least thing you want is a bunch of goblin with knowledge.

goblin slayer doesn't care about critics regarding his fashion sense goblin slayer only cares about goblins and there are no goblins in this video

I haven’t watched the show, but I imagine the purpose of the small shield and sword is to allow him to move through crawl spaces without getting stuck. I wouldn’t be surprised if the goblins purposefully dug smaller sections with curves and crawl spaces to grant them an advantage against bigger human adventurers.