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Because polearms are the weapon of the dirty uneducated masses. No one actually wants to the peasantry, they want to be the hero.
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Off his horse, though, the "hero" is just a soon to be dead guy who can't get back to his feet from the weight of his plate armor as the peasants trample him underfoot.
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This is kinda a mis understanding as well. Even full plate mail was less than people carry in war today. It was all over your body, so you could be pretty limber esp with training and the fact knights were in a lot better shape than most because they could afford to eat well.
Takes a bit to get ball rolling but check this shit out, it's like fencing, and MMA.
You see greco roman wrestling moves, throws, ffs, not easy to pull off for a normal person let alone in that gear. Knights were like walking tanks sure, but still scary how agile they were.
If you also want to talk about something to really fuck shit up and can't have a fire arm or spear. War Hammer. Pointy end for nice holes, blunt end to deform armor/stun or break bones. Cheap to mass produce and can choke up if in tighter space.
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Do you guys know about "Gay Bombs?"
They were theoretical non lethal weapons devised by the U.S. Air Force that would turn the target gay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
They were theoretical non lethal weapons devised by the U.S. Air Force that would turn the target gay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gay_bomb
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I know an interesting video about these
in the 1860s the Norwegian post office used functional gunblades:I know they aren't very practical but sometimes you need to appreciate how inventive some gunsmiths got.
Glaives, poleaxe, halberd, lochaber axe, guisearm, naginata, pu dao, it's all basically the same weapon and there is a damn good reason it was popular from Ireland to Japan for most of a thousand years.
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Interestingly the answer to this is mostly cultural, in Europe we embraced new ideas and developed technologies faster than other cultures to the east, after a period of time in Europe it just wasn't necessary to learn swordsman ship for practical reasons and it became a plaything of the idle rich and even then it was made safter with padded waistcoats and mostly blunt blades, bit's of older sword skill's still survived and wound up in early military manuals (see the 5 sword cuts from the nepolionic wars).
In the east particularly Japan because there where isolated for so long the swords became more of a cultural symbol and where recorded an documented in a practical manner (given the culture), and where still considerd a essential to learn for some classes of people as part of there education / societal upbringing that still persists in some fashion to this day that's partly why the Japanese sword schools tend to get attention.
Funny you should mention that, in the UK you can buy Tanks you can even supposedly get them with fully functional main guns but the MOD hasn't sold one with a functional gun to a civilian since the end of WW1, the only things I can think would even cause a issue is the Secure controlled storage, and restrictions on certain ammunition.
Bayonet's are a semi useful hold over from the muzzle loading day's of yore. When they where invented in there modern form (by the british I may add) the prevailing military battle docterin was to stand in lines fire a few volleys into the enemy ranks, soften up the survivors with cannon shot, then engage them in close quarters.
I knap flint as a hobby and early obsidian blades are just facinating, it's not a easy material to work either, I read something about the sharpest blades in existence for several thousand years where a set of blades left in a childs grave.
The hooks an spikes where a adaptation of the tools they where made from, Bill Hooks have a huge variation all across Europe but in areas that they had back hooks on they where used for forestry related activities, or hurdle / fence making. The rear hook was used mostly for trimming small braches, or pulling larger ones to allow them to be cut better. Some where made as dedicated weapons undoubtably but they followed what the local smiths already knew and where just extrapolations of what they where already making.
I'll give you a good example, you know the British expression "Bollocking" i.e. to give a sevear reprimand / dressing down? Well it comes from a French peasants knife known as a Bollock dagger, it was designed to be thin enough and long enough to slip into the joints of plate armour normally around the groin of a dismounted knight.
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This thread has a lot of cool looking weapons.
Myself, I'm more interested in getting the job done than looking "badass".
Allow me to introduce to you my little friend.
The Box Cutter. AKA the "Stanley knife" to our friends across the water in England. Cheap (about $2 in my neck of the woods), easily disposable, dependable, durable, found in almost any retail store, easily concealable, and normally overlooked by authorities if they pull you over and search your car. Try that with a Katana.
And it's absolutely devastating when brought out of concealment against an unaware target. That little 1-1/4" blade don't look like much? LOL. Nope. It's literally razor sharp and it both can and will totally fuck your shit up when used in kissing distance. Proof? Here ya go.
When it comes to weapons, I'm interested in results. Period.
Myself, I'm more interested in getting the job done than looking "badass".
Allow me to introduce to you my little friend.
The Box Cutter. AKA the "Stanley knife" to our friends across the water in England. Cheap (about $2 in my neck of the woods), easily disposable, dependable, durable, found in almost any retail store, easily concealable, and normally overlooked by authorities if they pull you over and search your car. Try that with a Katana.
And it's absolutely devastating when brought out of concealment against an unaware target. That little 1-1/4" blade don't look like much? LOL. Nope. It's literally razor sharp and it both can and will totally fuck your shit up when used in kissing distance. Proof? Here ya go.
That bastard have a hold on you? Rake his back.
They have a hold on your wallet/purse/self? Not anymore.
He grabbed you around the neck at the ATM? Well, he just let the fuck go.
They have a hold on your wallet/purse/self? Not anymore.
He grabbed you around the neck at the ATM? Well, he just let the fuck go.
When it comes to weapons, I'm interested in results. Period.
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This thread has a lot of cool looking weapons.
Myself, I'm more interested in getting the job done than looking "badass".
Allow me to introduce to you my little friend.
The Box Cutter. AKA the "Stanley knife" to our friends across the water in England. Cheap (about $2 in my neck of the woods), easily disposable, dependable, durable, found in almost any retail store, easily concealable, and normally overlooked by authorities if they pull you over and search your car. Try that with a Katana.
And absolutely devastating when brought out of concealment against an unaware target. That little 1-1/4" blade don't look like much? LOL. Nope. It's literally razor sharp and it both can and will totally fuck your shit up when used in kissing distance. Proof? Here ya go.
That bastard have a hold on you? Rake his back.
They have a hold on your wallet/purse/self? Not anymore.
He grabbed you around the neck at the ATM? Well, he just let the fuck go.
When it comes to weapons, I'm interested in results. Period.
Those things are useful but fucking evil, there has been an on again off again debait about there legality whenever knife law gets brought up in the UK, cheep sharp an slashey even called a pocket money knife because of there ubiquity in some areas. My police officer relative fucking hates them, a officer she's friends with has a rather ugly 5inch scar down his face from one that narrowly missed his eye from a scag head.
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My father used to own a Remington Model 597, and I think he still does. Excellent sport shooting ( I don't hunt, and neither does he- his side of the family isn't native to the South) rifle, and highly modifiable. Too bad I'm shit with scopes, or I'd get one myself.
It's essentially the 10/22 but with a Remington label slapped onto it.
It's essentially the 10/22 but with a Remington label slapped onto it.
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Personally for me when it comes to practical weapons, I preferred meat cleavers and hatchets. They're small, don't need to be sharpened often, and they're like the only bladed weapons where the whole hack n' slash method is appropriate.This thread has a lot of cool looking weapons.
Myself, I'm more interested in getting the job done than looking "badass".
Allow me to introduce to you my little friend.
The Box Cutter. AKA the "Stanley knife" to our friends across the water in England. Cheap (about $2 in my neck of the woods), easily disposable, dependable, durable, found in almost any retail store, easily concealable, and normally overlooked by authorities if they pull you over and search your car. Try that with a Katana.
And it's absolutely devastating when brought out of concealment against an unaware target. That little 1-1/4" blade don't look like much? LOL. Nope. It's literally razor sharp and it both can and will totally fuck your shit up when used in kissing distance. Proof? Here ya go.
That bastard have a hold on you? Rake his back.
They have a hold on your wallet/purse/self? Not anymore.
He grabbed you around the neck at the ATM? Well, he just let the fuck go.
When it comes to weapons, I'm interested in results. Period.
Then again in any situation id definitely prefer a gun or a bow or something. I don't wanna trust my life to something that can be rendered useless by thin sheets of metal.
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Are you often in situations where you need to engage in hand to hand combat with bladed weapons?
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This is the only good thing about attack on titan. They use modified boxcutters to kill titans instead of katanasThis thread has a lot of cool looking weapons.
Myself, I'm more interested in getting the job done than looking "badass".
Allow me to introduce to you my little friend.
The Box Cutter. AKA the "Stanley knife" to our friends across the water in England. Cheap (about $2 in my neck of the woods), easily disposable, dependable, durable, found in almost any retail store, easily concealable, and normally overlooked by authorities if they pull you over and search your car. Try that with a Katana.
And it's absolutely devastating when brought out of concealment against an unaware target. That little 1-1/4" blade don't look like much? LOL. Nope. It's literally razor sharp and it both can and will totally fuck your shit up when used in kissing distance. Proof? Here ya go.
That bastard have a hold on you? Rake his back.
They have a hold on your wallet/purse/self? Not anymore.
He grabbed you around the neck at the ATM? Well, he just let the fuck go.
When it comes to weapons, I'm interested in results. Period.
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Those dirty European cucks didn't have access to glorious Nippon steel.
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Do you guys know about the Puckle gun?
It was a gun with two kinds of bullets. One with round bullets to be used against Christians, and one with square bullets, to be used against Muslim Turks. The square bullets were more painful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun
It was a gun with two kinds of bullets. One with round bullets to be used against Christians, and one with square bullets, to be used against Muslim Turks. The square bullets were more painful.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puckle_gun
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I adore any early multi shot firearm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belton_flintlock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater
Also, since we are talking about niche,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle As cool as it gets imho.
It's ok I have others though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belton_flintlock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalthoff_repeater
Also, since we are talking about niche,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girandoni_air_rifle As cool as it gets imho.
Never do poly, ever. Ever. I thought it can't be as bad as the meme's are, it's worse. Cracked a lower from just stress of being laid in my safe. That's right the stock on the floor of my safe was enough to trash the lower.
It's ok I have others though.