Duke:
I have experience with the regular Titus 50w reels. we bought 4 of them on ebay for about 90 a piece. I have not hooked on sword on them but have caught a marlin on one, and i gotta say it performed flawlessly and that thing took 400 yards of line out a couple times over. i dont konw the max drag on it, but its pretty high i think. Certainly high enough for swords. Its a very
light reel which is good, but im not sure what happens when you strap up to a
harness and apply 30lbs of drag..im sure it doesnt hold up as well as a gold reel but like i said you get what you pay for.
anyway thats just my input