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You must now justify the existence of hand-to-hand combat experts in a universe where people have laser guns and grenades and shit without resorting to Dune energy shields or something.
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>>44619481
Power armor with shock knuckles for disabling enemies during ship boarding actions

Space magic
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>>44619481
Sometimes you forget your gun
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>>44619481
Gun laws stricter than present day Britain combined with police competent enough to actually enforce them.
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>>44619481
Fist don't activate metal detectors.
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>>44619481

Because you're a hand to hand expert on top of being a marksman and you've either been disarmed of your weapon or you've run out of ammo and the enemy is on top of you.

Did knives suddenly stop being about to kill people just because guns were invented?
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Because sometimes you don't have a laser gun or grenade, and sometimes it's better to not use a laser gun or grenade even if you do have one because you need to be quiet.
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>>44619481
Close quarters still exist. If there's space travel involved, the last thing you want is something that can breach the hull or cause a fire.

Also just like the modern world, martial arts and fist-fighting in general is a not-too-uncommon hobby.
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>>44619481
Because in your genre, guns have an upper limit they can reach while training your body doesnt.
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>>44619481
Scanning technology has almost been perfected. The only thing that can't be detected are certain subtle enhancements, and fists.

As such, there's a pretty big demand for martial arts experts as a body guard whenever you're going into hostile territory for a negotiation.
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>>44619481
Some serious augumentation like laserproofskin, regenerative abilities a la wolverine and such things and not to mention superstrength.

Also, laserguns and grenades could be hilseriously inneffective.

Also, some kinda of cultural thingamagib. Incredibly strict honor codes or a duel code fought out only using unarmed.
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>>44619481

Sports.
Civilian self defense training.
The USMC or local equivalent.

Same as today.
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>>44619481
You don't want to kill them, and no one brought a space-taser
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>>44619481
Punch magic.
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>>44619481
Because sometimes you just have to punch shit.
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>>44619601
>muscle_wizard_casts_fist.jpg
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>>44619663
I was thinking something more like an unarmed Swordsage in 3.5, or the Immortal Iron Fist.
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>>44619481
Superhuman physical abilities that allow people to punch straight through their fellow man. This isn't so useful out in the open, but in closer tighter places like indoors, or alleyways it provides immeasurable benefits. So you leave the plains and the hills to the men with guns and grenades, but the moment they step into your city you punch their heads off.
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>>44619481
People in my setting aren't fucking retards.
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>shit without resorting to Dune energy shields or something.

Magic science dust that will blow up if you lasers
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No organization that trains soldiers for combat makes them specialize in only one form or with one weapon like a silly DnD class.
When you join the military you've got a lot of infrastructure jobs to fill but these people still might see combat so you train them in guns, vehicles and hand to hand combat.
I can only imagine a space faring militia or even pirates would have to know all kinds of shit about hull integrity and system repairs both in and out of a ship.

Then you also have the problem of what would happen if you fired a gun inside of a ship and hit anything important or even pierced the hull.
So if you were raiding a ship you intended to salvage and take prisoners or McGuffins chances are you wouldn't use ballistics, maybe not even lasers depending on how blasty they were.

For everything else: The martial expert would just pick up a laser gun and grenades if they're that effective
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>>44619860
Also Minovsky particles.
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Cybernetic enhancements in close quarters.
Machine arms and legs designed for non lethal take downs.
You're not accepting combat in waves, instead you are seeking out enemy installations, infiltrating and then surprising them with close combat when they are prepared for long range or medium combat.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNhYJgDdCu4
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>>44619807
If grappling ships are the best and most effective spaceships in the universe, surely some good old-fashioned fisticuffs can't be too bad once and a while, eh?
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>>44619481
Predator-like invisibility gear and the fact it's much harder to detect/hear a punch/quick knife slash than a weapon discharging/grenade exploding.
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>>44619481
Rifts.
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>>44619481

A hand-to-hand combat expert who is also a marksman is going to be a more effective combatant than someone who is only a marksman. Close quarters will never not exist

It's also the most constructive use of your cardio time.
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>>44619481

Assassins. A weapon would arouse suspicion.
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Because guns aren't avaliable to every person and people need someway to defend themselves
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>>44619481
>You must now justify the existence of hand-to-hand combat experts in a universe where people have guns and grenades and shit without resorting to 'bulletproof skin' or something.
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>>44619481
keeping people from grabbing your gun.

also it's good for you.
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>>44619481
Because sometimes yoi just have to suplex a motherfucking train
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>>44619664
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>>44619481
Fists can't run out of ammo.
Fists can't be taken away.
Learning a martial art can be justified with "It's exercise."
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>>44619481
Because boxing, san shou, wrestling, bjj, mma, pankration, and other combat sports still exist and maintain a fairly good popularity.

I've always wondered why there any rules systems meant to simulate the players being professional athletes participating in a Weird Martial Arts League. It wouldn't play at all like normal, DnD-based systems (for one, you'd have to have either 1-on-1 PvP, or each player faces one enemy while the others wait, plus rules for the "off season" which matter at least as much as what they do during their bouts).

Alternatively, bullshit sci-fi medicine and the limits of the human body as we know them coming from our inferior (compared to in-setting) biomedical knowledge and self-care rather than being something inherent.

>durrr they still wouldn't be able to outrun bullets
No shit, but health care would be so advanced, responsive, and accessible that getting shot twenty times would be like breaking a toe today.
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>>44619974
>that pic
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>>44620156
>Fists can't be taken away
Sunder would like to have a little word with you
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>>44619974
Actually the most effective spaceships just collapse local space into plasma and be done with it.
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>>44619481
>You must now justify the existence of hand-to-hand combat experts in a universe where people have laser guns and grenades and shit without resorting to Dune energy shields or something.
Your image is a good hint; The hand to hand combat experts live in a lower-class tier (perhaps literally) of society, making it vitally important to have an edge in fights that cannot be resolved with guns.

If the tech is expensive enough (and given the myriad issues with prototypes today it's disingenuous to claim it's unrealistic for that to happen) a single laser gun could put you on the backfoot more than a Tesla does.

You'll think twice about bringing something out in the open that's just as likely to be a defensive asset as a massive target sign painted on your back.

TL;DR: Hobo monks.
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>>44619481
In their respective cases they get more/better results that way.

Gee that was hard.
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>>44619481
Setting where magic only works on living things, meaning only living bodies can be enchanted.

Sci-fi setting. Shipboard/space station combat. Any projectile with enough punch to beat personal armor at the current tech level would also punch a hole into hard vacuum; even worse if the shooter misses. Thus, alternate means of attack are necessary.
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>>44619481
With the right equipment, you can get up right in their faces. Being in melee range makes it harder for someone to get a good shot off at you, and only the most suicidal moron is going to try to hit you with a grenade at that range.
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Have a read of this article about why the British Police don't want to carry guns for their day to day duties:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-19641398
>Arming the force would, say opponents, undermine the principle of policing by consent - the notion that the force owes its primary duty to the public, rather than to the state, as in other countries.

>"In terms of the police being approachable, in terms of the public being the eyes and ears of the police, officers don't want to lose that," he says.

Having the police armed changes how the public interacts with them. A change that the police don't want, so they leave the guns to the specialist units that they only call in if they need them.

While this does mean more reliance in de-escalating situations without violence, we are talking about the interactions between police and criminals. The non-violent options aren't always enough. The armed police units could be too far away to deal with the situation in time. For example, someone could come at the police with a knife:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cznNf2LUk74

Hand to hand training becomes the only viable option.
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All my settings contain some amount of Wuxia.
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When on a space ship or space station, there are lots of small rooms and tight corners. Often you just can't use a gun before the bloke with the knife is upon you.
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>>44619481
>You must
By whose edict? Throgmar bows for no god, king, or man.
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>>44621053
It also means they'd be expected to handle tasks usually reserved for the armed response unit. Essentially making their job more dangerous by default, instead of something they can volunteer to do.
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>>44621122
THROGMAR, THIS YOU LANDLADY
YOU RENT TWO WEEK OVERDUE
YOU GET OFF COMPUTER AND GET MONEY OR I CALL REPO COMPANY
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>>44619481
Martial arts tournaments.
Films and theatre.
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Like modern day warfare people are trained I hand to hand combat when they don't have guns or grenades. Since this is how reality works. It's just useful to know.
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>>44619481
I ROLL TO PUNCH THE LASER
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>>44621501
In shadowrun 4e, my character literally punched lasers as powerful as the main guns on a battleship. It really fucked with combat so we had to swap systems for the game to continue without me obliterating things. It was a great time
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>>44619481
These things are not mutually exclusive, OP. They can exist side by side. It's like saying "Why should we have infantry when we have tanks?" or "Why do we have handguns when we have assault rifles?".
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>>44621829
>Materia
>Not Para-Magic
>LaughingZell.jpg
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>>44619481
Some weird crystal orbs exist in the world that give the user magical power, let's call them say "materia" how does that sound?
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>>44621880
Sounds like you're talking about the Four Crystals!
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>>44621894
Dancer is best class!
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>>44621894
>>44621914
Isn't Faris, like, the second most stacked FF character after Tifa?
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>>44621946
Well, considering that she passes for a Man, I'd say no, she's one of the flattest.
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>>44621946
Considering she was masquerading as a man among the pirates for long I highly doubt this.
Even the official art has her being pretty flat.
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Because the person punching people is fucking hardcore.
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>>44619481
Ki ala Dragonball-z where 20 years of training gets you a planet-buster with the same expenses of a small foot soldier contigent.
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>>44621961
>>44621981
I might be reading too much into this line from the ship graveyard:

Galuf: Bah... If you aren't gonna dress like a girl- and you should, a real
shame to hide such assets- y'could at least talk like one...
>a real shame to hide such assets
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>>44622017
Galuf's an Ass Man.
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>>44622024
Well, she's definitely hot, given how much Galuf and Bartz flip their shit when they go into her room in Tule and see her in bed.
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>>44619481
Close quarters combat.
Stricter gun laws and gun detection.
If there's space travel, nobody wants to be the idiot who misses and shoots a hole in the hull.
Cybernetics and power armor turning hand-to-hand fighters into literal killing machines.
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>>44621981
>what is chest binding
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>>44622032
>>44621981
Well you know if we go by Amano's artwork then pretty much everyone looks completely like Sephiroth. Meaning, unless you are Barret your gender is always questionable.
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>>44622032

Mind you, they also seem to go 'Wait...does this make me gay?'
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>>44622051
But Sephiroth's Artwork was designed by Nomura, not Amano. Huh, maybe Sephiroth's design was a tribute to Amano to Nomura?
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>>44622056
The only bit I can find is this line from the Ship Graveyard sequence:

Galuf: Haw! I knew from the start that you were too pretty to be a man!
*whew...*
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>>44622076
Did nobody tell Amano that Squall has brown hair, and Rinoa has black hair?
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>>44619481
we have guns and granades, you can easily make a pipebomb with the shit you have in your hose but fistycuffs is stillusefull, nothing would change in space except i would probobly have power fists to punch harder. Nothing beats punching when you are in a tight spot or dont want to kill someone just teach em a lesson
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>>44622109
Name one time Amano's done a characters hair in a dark shade, and I'll believe that him knowing that would even matter.
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>>44622109
no, everyone must be Sephiroth
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>>44622139
Oh shit, it's like in Advent Children. Expose someone to a bit of Jenova and they become Sephiroth.
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>>44622135
This unused design for Lenna.

Which I prefer to the one in-game.
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>>44621238
The danger to puppies trapped in cars, innocent bystanders and THEMSELVES (there's a lot of incidents AND accidents in the US, up to and including range instructors blowing their own heads off) is a pretty nasty drawback as well.

Handguns have their uses for sure, but they can be very bad at keeping the peace in an already (comparatively speaking) peaceful place. Especially once the "I have one so everyone else might too" mentality sets in as it does in US police forces, and everyone and everything suddenly makes you "I had reason to believe that I was fearing for my life".

Between that and the power-rush when they realize they could kill the person they're talking to effortlessly, it's no wonder the departments here invariably turn into raging looting assholes.
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>>44619481
It's cool.
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>>44619481
As has been said, can't damage a space ship.

To get around this, my setting has a lot of non-lethal combat options. Net guns, shock batons, and concussion grenades innnn spaaaaace.
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>>44622167
and then EVERYONE WAS SEPHIROTH! Remeber Sephiroth is the BEST Final Fantasy character EVUR MAED so everyone must be like him.
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>>44619481
Character is just that good on punching.
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>>44619481
Cybernetic brawler guilds.

They have tech that enhances the user to the point that they can come really close to a person and unleash a terrifying hailstorm of hits that penetrate energy shields and crush armor.

Of course they don't take in everyone. First they make sure the candidate for cybernetic enhancement is healthy enough. Then they make him undergo a training from hell.
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>>44621053
Which explains why the most popular name in the UK is Mohammed.

Britcuckistan.
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>>44619481
Fuck off.
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>>44619481
It exists in a world with tanks, guns, and laser-guided weapons, so why would lasers change much?
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>>44622661
>Ameriboo believes what Fox News drills into his ears.

Kek the halls.
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>>44619514
This so much.
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>>44622675
An incredibly constructive post I have to say.
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>>44619974

Actually, grappling ships were used as a legal loophole, because the space forces cracked down hard on warships, but defined a warship as any spacecraft with built in weaponry.

Robot arms on spacecraft were necessary for various work and construction vehicles, so they couldn't be outlawed, and having the robot arms hold the weapons meant that they were not built in, dodging the warship clauses.

The space forces tried to update the rules to cover grappler ships, but generally found that it wasn't worth the time since it only really would apply to pirates and outlaws anyway, and it was hard as hell to define 'carry a weapon' in such a way that it did not also apply to merchant vessels transporting goods for the military.
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>>44619481
You need to kill fast and lasers are too slow.
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>>44622695
Pretty sure that was on more than just FOX, though it was talking about the most popular baby name.
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>>44619481
Make the action to occur inside of space ship or an underground facility, where shooting lasers is a really bad idea.

Also, pic related. Power-armors that are resistant to low-end laser weapons and most melee weapons to assault fortress with small corridors. Your guys will simply steamroll the defenders.
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>>44622168
>Lenna
>"I'll sit here and be quiet until I need to walk through poisoned grass" the character
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>>44619481
CQC knowledge allows you to CQC mechas and super-soldiers, and be operator as fuck while you're at it.
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>>44623981
>and it was hard as hell to define 'carry a weapon' in such a way that it did not also apply to merchant vessels transporting goods for the military.

Nah, it's quite simple. Ban the fuck out of anything remotely resembling it, then hand out gun hauling licenses to your contractors. It's your basic white-list system.
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>>44619481
We have hand to hand combat experts today. In close quarters, anything can happen. Only the Americans really seem to hold CQC in genuine disdain, literally everyone else still trains it, and the British have demonstrated its overwhelmingly effective use in living memory.

The bullet is an idiot. The bayonet knows what he's about.
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>>44624318
Care to elaborate on the "Americans disdain it"
thing? Most army bootcamps still have relatively elaborate cqc exercises
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>>44624360
American military still trains it but from what I understand from the Marines, most of it is bullshit and impractical and the program is in bad need of updating
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>>44624360
I mean on a tactical level. Most US forces use the bayonet for aggressiveness training, and I think the Marines still actually carry them, but the idea of actually charging people is no longer considered viable, even with covering fire and a superior position. There was some dude who went full Gurkha on some hajis with a folder, so I guess they know how but just choose not to?

Then again, the Yanks shitsmacked Fallujah so hard Salladin did an extra rotation in hell, so obviously they know close combat. Maybe it's just a difference in doctrine.
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>>44619481
Chinese Landladies...

>>44619497
>Sometimes you forget your gun
>>44619514
>Because you're a hand to hand expert on top of being a marksman and you've either been disarmed of your weapon or you've run out of ammo and the enemy is on top of you.
>Did knives suddenly stop being about to kill people just because guns were invented?
>>44619535
>Close quarters still exist. If there's space travel involved, the last thing you want is something that can breach the hull or cause a fire.
>Also just like the modern world, martial arts and fist-fighting in general is a not-too-uncommon hobby.
>>44620056
>A hand-to-hand combat expert who is also a marksman is going to be a more effective combatant than someone who is only a marksman. Close quarters will never not exist
>>44620953
>With the right equipment, you can get up right in their faces. Being in melee range makes it harder for someone to get a good shot off at you, and only the most suicidal moron is going to try to hit you with a grenade at that range.
...But yeah, this.

>>44621249
>THROGMAR, THIS YOU LANDLADY
I TOLD YOU!!!

>>44624121
>Make the action to occur inside of space ship or an underground facility, where shooting lasers is a really bad idea.
>Also, pic related. Power-armors that are resistant to low-end laser weapons and most melee weapons to assault fortress with small corridors. Your guys will simply steamroll the defenders.
Yes, but this is how I'd bullshit giant humanoid Robots anyways...
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>>44624454
>>44624434
Thanks, as far as i can tell however it seems to just be the natural evolution of combat, nowadays there are fewer trench engagements or battles of attrition but more urban sweeps where if you fall into a cqc situation you will most likely still be gunned down by an enemy supportive unit. Once the third world war rolls around we will probably see a rise of qcq roles in the military
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>>44624454
Oh no wait, it was some Central American guy who stabbed a bunch of people in Iraq.

...No no, it's alright, we're all thinking it.
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>>44621652
What system did you move to?
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>>44619481
>You must now justify the existence of hand-to-hand combat experts in a universe where people have laser guns and grenades and shit without resorting to Dune energy shields or something.
I can't.

/thread.
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>>44619481
People aren't armed 24/7.

Done.
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>>44619481

Techniques that allow you to move faster than bullets, hit harder than RPGs, jump around like Superman, and kick the ass of everyone who relies on all that fancy technology exist.

Also, it is possible to develop your physical strength, endurance, and reflexes far beyond the limits of humanity in this world.
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>>44625118

>without resorting to Dune energy shields or something

He wasn't asking about Final Fantasy.
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>>44619481
Gunnm.
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>>44624281
That's actually where the problem anon mentioned comes in.

You look like a goddamn dick, and start having more and more trouble, because "only pirates and criminals" have weapons on their ships, and a vast majority of merchants and civilians end up either tying up your forces due to their need for protection, or tying up your forces due to being branded as pirates/criminals for the 'crime' of trying to protect themselves because why the fuck would you ever commit forces to protecting those you've banned the right to defend themselves for.

To put it bluntly: When everyone who isn't one of your favorites has the choice between being considered a criminal or GETTING TO FUCKING LIVE, everyone's quickly a criminal.

This is how you get mass armed revolutions.

Something those of you in the US should be rarther knowledgable about - not just because of how great you are at handling the middle-east locations you've invaded - given "we do fuck-all for you but you will pay all our new taxes or we'll consider you thieves and pirates" was KIIIIIIINDA the escalation that led to a certain little harbor-party in Boston.
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>>44624121
Why aren't the corridors made of that stuff too, thus making laser weapons the prefered in-craft weapon? Plus it's wall plating, you don't have to worry about making it thin and mobile like people plates.
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>Not using both technology and martial arts to push your body to the limits.

>Not using superior ki based training augmented with iron and WILL POWER.

>Not casting fist.

What's the point of fighting if you have to use proxy tools?
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>>44625669
Ahahahahaa no

the complaint was pretty much "the brits are cracking down on smuggling, that's not faaaaair" in the north, and "the brits are expecting us to actually pay our taxes, that's not faaaaair" in the south

Nobody in America could even pretend the brits weren't doing shit for them- they'd literally just finished fighting a war with the French wherein pretty much all the fighting and dying had been done by the English
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>>44627638
The continental army was lead by the finest officer of the French and Indian Wars the revolutionaries could scrounge up: one G. Washington, total military accomplishments "got all his troops killed, was bailed out by the brits."

Dude's personal military talents were limited to 1. lookin' good and 2. being the finest retreater of his day. seriously, not a joke, man turned what should have been total routs into somewhat organized retreats that preserved most of his forces, he was genuinely great at them
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>>44625691
Probably for the same reason that aircraft bodies aren't made of the same stuff that black boxes are made of - titanium is much denser than aluminium, so it takes more fuel to get the same net acceleration.
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>>44627638
The war was between Britain and France, Britain just dragged its colonies into it. After the war, Britain refused to let colonists try to go west into Indian lands.
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>>44628032
damn interfering brits, all 'expecting us to abide by a peace treaty'
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The campaign happens in a MMO balanced to where guns are much less deadly then close combat but is also really safe to use in comparison.
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>>44619481
Long-range conventional-war combat systems are varied robotic systems commanded by AI. Aimbots that kill anything between here and the horizon so fast, it takes longer for the bullet to arrive than the AI to aim, acquire, and fire.

Since 99% of gun usage is done by AI systems, personal guns are rare. Since sensor systems are so good, they're also impossible to smuggle into secured areas.

So when special forces need to infiltrate a command bunker, there's no room for guns because the outside perimeter would kill them instantly. It's one ninja with biotech-augmented kung fu slaughtering their way through a building full of unarmed drone pilots.
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>>44624318
>The bullet is an idiot. The bayonet knows what he's about.
мoй тoвapищ
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>>44619481
Close quarters is not the place one should try using a gun
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Not sure OP, why do people practice martial arts today
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>>44619481
Laser weapons take several minutes to recharge and grenades aren't good ideas in enclosed areas.
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>>44630877
Yeah, I've always wondered why every SWAT team has a bloke who goes in without guns and kungfus everyone into submission.
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>>44630877
fuck off
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>>44626013
what is this glorious shit i see before me
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>>44619481
The Shanghai Method and its descendants were a thing throughout WWII.
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My idea is actually energy requirements. For whatever dumb fuck reason, laser guns take an absurd amount of energy, so a gun's "clips" are actually batteries that are only good for one or two shots. So guns can still be used, but it's impractical to carry all the ammo unless you wear it like a huge backpack. Also, there can still be laser guns on ships, since they have plenty of energy to divert from the fire belchers.

>>44632626
Hey, it works for Indonesian SWAT
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>>44625026
Wow, have you no imagination?

>peoples mind states are stored in incredibly durable bodies so to disable them takes heavy laser fire to burn open the braincases as the self repair mechanisms will fix damaged limbs in seconds
>destroying the brain makes the person revive into a new body from self replicating machines that are too numerous to smash and they revive you too

>but simple leverage allows you to pin someone down until you can pour plascrete on them and seal them in a solid block of material

Fucking easy to justify.
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>>44619481
The melee fighters have disablers that prevent the use of firearms and grenades in a 4-mile radius. And now most of these melee fighters are so skilled and experienced that they are faster than others, and then there are some who have augmentations to go even faster
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>>44633536
Symphogear
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>>44634573
Not him, but thanks. Is it a fun anime?
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>>44621238
The fact that so many police (82% in the BBC article) don't want guns tells me that it's a tradeoff that they are willing to make.
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>>44620693
Well... then you have an entirely new set of problems.
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>>44619481

It's fantasy.
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>>44621249
Silence, Hovel-Wench, I have conquered this tower and by might's right it is mine! Throgmar bows to no god, king, or man!
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Gun require bullets. And a gun. Sneaking yourself into a place is easier than sneaking yourself and a weapon. Leathality isn't always desired. Beating the shit out of a rival gang member will be less likely to get you in hot water than shooting them in the face.
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I haven't fully read the thread so sorry if this has already been mentioned.

I think hand-to-hand serves a highly useful purpose in today's military - it kills time. A lot of deployment is sitting around and when you're off duty you're sitting around. To prevent the boredom from creeping in we sometimes just spar or brawl. It's something you can practice when you have a bunch of people sitting around doing nothing, requires no equipment, and you need to piss away the adrenaline somehow.

Sure there are plenty of ways to kill time: read, bullshit, do actual preparation or work. But some people just can't do that or exhaust themselves cleaning their weapon. So the military gives them a hobby.
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>>44619481
I must not, because I can be unrealistic if I want to be.
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>>44619481
Boredom, And people will always enjoy watching people beat the piss out of each other.
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>>44619481
EMP's or any number of other ways to disable energy based weapons THAT ALREADY EXIST. Stealth: you don't looks as suspicious if you don't have a gun, and sometimes people will let you places they otherwise would not. Being able to take another person's laser from close range. Oh, and also Dune energy shields. If a universe where laser grenades are real, what's so absurd about energy shields?
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>>44619580
>Do not attempt to move or we'll be shooting ourselves.
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>>44635992
It's Madoka: The Musical.
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>>44619481
A man cannot push a button if you disable his hand!
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>>44619481
Copper beryllium melee weapons for removing bad guys from the giant gas mines. It would look sweet, AND give you good excuses to keep firearms, railguns, lasers and explosives at home.
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>>44619481
guns/grenades can break airlocks and leave you exposed to the vacuum of space. safety first
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>>44620693
at least she wasnt disarmed
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>>44639795
why would they shoot? they have bayonets
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>>44626013
>>Not using superior ki based training augmented with iron and WILL POWER.
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>>44639841
Music, too? That does sound fun, thanks.
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>>44619481
Qi is fucking real and hand to hand experts can bitchslap bullets out of the air, uppercut someone through a roof, and get hit in the face with a grenade then punch the grenadier out of their skin.
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>>44640646
Anon, please, my sides just left the atmosphere.
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>>44635992
Symphogear pretty much sucks, but it's good for the spectacle, and that's it.
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Grapple nigga
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