Nerd-boy's Battlegear implements an entirely new weapon system to minecraft. Pressing the 'I' button or clicking your player character in the Inventory screen will bring up the Weapon Inventory Screen.
Weapons can be placed in the main hand or off hand slots. These weapons will be displayed on your player model when you go into 3rd person view. Weapons can be switched between sheathed and drawn by pressing the 'R' Key
Items displayed in the following table are able to be placed in the weapon slots. There is an option in the config file to allow the use of weapons from other mods.
When dual wielding 2 swords the player can block as normal by pressing both mouse buttons.
Installation
Install Risugami's Modloader
Make sure you delete the META-INF folder in the minecraft jar when installing ModLoader
Download and Install PlayerAPI
If using Single Player Commands, install the playerAPI-SPC patch
OPTIONAL (For dyable Shields)
Download and Install Minecraft Forge (note that as of my writing this, the recommended version is for 1.2.4, download the latest version although that may be buggy)
Download Battlegear via attachment below.
Place the downloaded zip file in the mods directory in youre .minecraft directory
Take the fight to the creepers