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I like flails too. Not sure how easy or practical they are to use, surely a sword is the most popular for a reason, but they probably hurt quite a lot.

For range, African Throwing Iron.

Close in, flanged mace and a Bollock Dagger

Cheers

Andrew

PS I may have missed this, but I believe that the sword staff is called a Brandestoc if anyone cares to search.

monkeyh wrote:

EmilCrane wrote:I'll take german gothic plate and a langschwert or zweihander any day of the week

Sounds like you've been watching too many dodgy German films!

What films are those?

corpsesarefun wrote:Seriously remilia, stop with the fictional weapons already.

Well, I'll be a good girl, and stop.

But, you have to admit, those were some pretty nice weapons.

I'm surprised that few people are choosing projectile weapons...

purplefood wrote:I'm surprised that few people are choosing projectile weapons...

is this surprise that so few are choosing projectile weapons, or surprise that a few have chosen projectile weapons? Hoenstly, this is not surprising to me, because of how glamorized melee weapons were/are. From the earliest age, people read about king arthur and his noble knights, who rode horses, with lances and swords and axes, war hammers, etc. (well, especially the sword)

From what studying i have done, there is more skill involved in fighting with melee weapons, as opposed to bows. From what i have seen, most of the skills involved in shooting a bow can really only be developed over time with practice, whereas swords and other melee weapons require time training, and often "real" combat, to gain further skills.

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

purplefood wrote:I'm surprised that few people are choosing projectile weapons...

is this surprise that so few are choosing projectile weapons, or surprise that a few have chosen projectile weapons? Hoenstly, this is not surprising to me, because of how glamorized melee weapons were/are. From the earliest age, people read about king arthur and his noble knights, who rode horses, with lances and swords and axes, war hammers, etc. (well, especially the sword)

From what studying i have done, there is more skill involved in fighting with melee weapons, as opposed to bows. From what i have seen, most of the skills involved in shooting a bow can really only be developed over time with practice, whereas swords and other melee weapons require time training, and often "real" combat, to gain further skills.

I chose a crossbow. That can either be the European (preferably Italian) armor peircing accurate long ranged monster or the more fast firing Byzantine or Chinese styles.
Give me a Byzantine crossbow and I will rapid fire all you pointy stickers to my heart's content.

I'll take a maul. Preferably one with a good spike on the haft. It will do some serious damage, and it has non-combat applications.

Easy... FLAIL!



And gun Katar's offcourse (yes, they really existed)

Why are people opting for flails? You're just as likely to injure yourself with it than your opponent?

Cheers

Andrew

PS African Throwing Iron is called a Mongwanga apparently, got to say I like the name!

AndrewC wrote:Why are people opting for flails? You're just as likely to injure yourself with it than your opponent?

Cheers

Andrew

PS African Throwing Iron is called a Mongwanga apparently, got to say I like the name!

Well as long as you know what you are doing and in the right situation I would happily use a flail.

I'm suprised nobody has mentioned boomerangs.

remilia_scarlet wrote:I'm suprised nobody has mentioned boomerangs.

to hard to use. but have you ever seen those sharp ones? dang....ouch.

klimino, google african throwing iron and pick images.

Cheers

Andrew

AndrewC wrote:klimino, google african throwing iron and pick images.

Cheers

Andrew

holy mole man! ouch! i remember those!

only weapon that could ever need a NSFW to.

EmilCrane wrote:

monkeyh wrote:

EmilCrane wrote:I'll take german gothic plate and a langschwert or zweihander any day of the week

Sounds like you've been watching too many dodgy German films!

What films are those?

The ones where guys with handle-bar moustaches get their langschwerts out

lord commissar klimino wrote:

AndrewC wrote:klimino, google african throwing iron and pick images.

Cheers

Andrew

holy mole man! ouch! i remember those!

Spoiler:

only weapon that could ever need a NSFW to.

Funny thing is, I heard they made them that way, to show how...er....manly they were You could run with MANY puns on that one

Ensis Ferrae wrote:

purplefood wrote:I'm surprised that few people are choosing projectile weapons...

is this surprise that so few are choosing projectile weapons, or surprise that a few have chosen projectile weapons? Hoenstly, this is not surprising to me, because of how glamorized melee weapons were/are. From the earliest age, people read about king arthur and his noble knights, who rode horses, with lances and swords and axes, war hammers, etc. (well, especially the sword)

From what studying i have done, there is more skill involved in fighting with melee weapons, as opposed to bows. From what i have seen, most of the skills involved in shooting a bow can really only be developed over time with practice, whereas swords and other melee weapons require time training, and often "real" combat, to gain further skills.

Surprise that so few are choosing them.
I don't know about anyone else but the country next door had a great thing going on with longbows...

This

This is my most favorite sword ever. IT is as tall as i am. (I've seen one in wisconsin fetching for around 90$ real and awesomely cool, i want to make it red and make it look like the one from diablo XD)

Doctadeth wrote:Either a good claymore, or the self-cranking crossbow the french used towards the rennaisance.

A crossbow combines power and accuracy, though at the expense of range usually.

No crossbows have great range. What they sacrifice is loading time. They take a long time to reset.

Punch daggers look cool but have no real advantage over a standard handle, and they in fact have a disadvantage in that the user loses the ability to articulate his wrist, and with it the angle of the blade. No wrist=huge disadvantage when dealing with light fast weapons like a dagger.

schadenfreude wrote:Punch daggers look cool but have no real advantage over a standard handle, and they in fact have a disadvantage in that the user loses the ability to articulate his wrist, and with it the angle of the blade. No wrist=huge disadvantage when dealing with light fast weapons like a dagger.

Biggest advantage is power in the punch, so more likely to punch through primitive armors.

Wardragoon wrote:

schadenfreude wrote:Punch daggers look cool but have no real advantage over a standard handle, and they in fact have a disadvantage in that the user loses the ability to articulate his wrist, and with it the angle of the blade. No wrist=huge disadvantage when dealing with light fast weapons like a dagger.

Biggest advantage is power in the punch, so more likely to punch through primitive armors.

Daggers are not meant to blow through armor with brute force, and by bending the wrist one can bypass primitive armor entirely.

There are advantages, you gain protection over the wrist for blocking, even larger blades, and some reach...

Different weapon, different techniques, different strengths and weaknesses.

Was very popular in India, so must have had value or qould not have been popular!