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Discuss impractical weapons
Argue about impractical weapons
>>47735125
Personally I love the idea of monsters so stupidly strong they can only be damaged by shit like this
>>47735163
I want that just for the novelty of it.
The whole getup really
>>47735327
Yeeeee
>>47735499
I'll admit to liking the top and bottom guns. They remind me of Bloodborne's Evelyn, a custom made weapon commissioned by a Noble for her Knights. They still seem practical being hand cannons, but they have a good look to them too
>>47735125
>>47738510
>HURHURHURHUR! I POSTED IT AGAIN!
>>47735125
This was actually a troop choice in the Apokalypse wargame. Landmates are a thing there and what with the game being in a postapocalyptic setting, the means to take those down aren't all that available. So suicidal maniacs/stone-cold badasses with power drills and a sidearm are optional as a counter to those giant assault mechs. They'll have to attack from out of the landmate's LoS to not get gibbed iirc.
Dunno if they worked on the human-sized killer robots tho?
Why not a big ol' anchor?
>>47735125
Anything to do with plasma in space
>>47738510
>>47738562
Just about anything japanese really.
>>47738589
>not superior diskblades
0/Basara, wouldn't fight for hegemony on southern sea against.
>>47735327
You have to escape your cycles of guilt somehow
>>47735125
Impractical Soldiers using Improbable Weapons to fight Incomprehensible Foes.
My vampire PC uses impractically oversized weapons because her strength and stature make them practical. 2 meter sword, two .600 revolvers, and an Anzio 20mm for longer range engagements.
>>47735163
It used to be a thing.
>>47738510
I wouldn't call a katana impractical. Only a low durabel, overrated weapon...
>>47738793
Is she also a half-werewolf half-angel half-demon Japanese schoolgirl named Darkblade?
>>47738817
Shhhhh, you're ruining their MUH YUROP circlejerk...
>>47738690
Say that to my face motherfucker and not online then see what happens!
>>47738817
Low durability, poorly made and impractical "sword".
It's a wonderful uniform "decoration" or "badge of office" though.
>>47738951
>MUH YUROP
>>47738820
Who?
Nah, she's just a Kiss-Shot ripoff.
>>47735163
Weirdest thing about that gun is the tiny cat. Who needs a tiny cat on a gun?
CHAINSAW KNEEEES!
>>47738999
It helps you overcome humanity's instinctual aversion to kinslaying by purring when you point it at an enemy.
>>47739071
What happened to his crotch
>>47739078
He's wearing a harness or suspenders or something.
>>47739078
I think his body was fairly in the way of his crotch.
>>47738753
I have to say this Katana thing is probably dumbest weapon on this thread thus far.
>>47738999
People with class, duh
Trips acknowledged btw
Let's play spot the /k/ommando
>>47735125
Pile Bunkers are the absolute shit.
It's so rare to see them done right, though.
Pic related has the right idea. Big, bulky, unwieldy as fuck, but with enough stopping power and impact to blow up a mountain.
>>47744850
>has a fucking shoulder stock
>would more than likely tear off the arm
>done right
Yeahokay.
>>47744890
> goes to impractical weapons thread
> complains that said weapons are impractical
You walk a lonely road mate
>>47744890
It's from an anime as fuck series where everyone has super powers. Fuck realism.
/k/ please leave
>>47739037
That dope as fuck
>>47744701
Do we really need to make me suffer.
>>47740265
That thing's gonna get stuck in flesh the instant you hit someone with it. I like the aesthetic though.
>>47738770
I was hoping someone would say it.
>>47744890
You might say it's a bit...impractical.
>>47738951
Ok mate, I realize that Katanas aren't the holy grail of weapons some make them out to be, but implying they are so shit they aren't even good for fighting goes a tad too far in the other direction.
>>47739071
I had an exploding spear in 3.5 before, it was totally cool and worked well.
>>47735125
Basically Ukraine
>>47744890
A torn arm isn't a big issue to someone who is effectively immortal.
>>47745066
the big problem with "traditional" katanas is the steel. due to the impurities , you couldnt make a long , thin blade because it would break. the katana had a thick , stiff blade that increased the weight>reach ratio. thus , most katanas were either status symbols and/or sidearms.
that being said , the katana was also invented in an area where metal armor was rather uncommon , thus being a typical slashing and hacking weapon.
an overglorified cleaver , so to speak.
on the other hand , making a katana with purer steel allows a thinner and longer blade, which can make it pretty similiar to the german kriegsmesser.
However , i still dont get why anyone would go with a disc-guard instead of a crossgard or other extended guard shapes.
>>47745275
You're still pretending that katanas wouldn't be used, which is stupid, and wrong, considering how often they were made and used.
Railguns in general are fucking great, but this one in particular is just absurd.
>>47745275
It bothers me how you hit a few points correctly and yet completely fucked up everything else.
I have always loved the gunlance.
A gigantic spear loaded with mortar-sized buckshot rounds that requires armor equivalent to a tank to use? Hell yes
>>47744701
>Tactical nugget
I feel like I have wandered into /d/, trapped between disgust and curiosity.
>>47745275
>due to the impurities
>it would break
>metal armor was rather uncommon
Dude can you share with us the secrets to time travel because you sound like your from 2010. Really because the alternative is you being on the board without having a KM infodumb dropped on you that whole time.
>>47744701
AAAAAAAALLRRGGHHH!
WHY DID THEY SPRAY PAINT IT MATTE BLACK?
>>47738510
> draw-cut weapon with ridiculously-thick cross-section
> shit raw materials
> you call that a guard, son? I assume you don't like having fingers or hands
>>47744890
> she's putting the stock against her shoulder
best thou blind, knave?
That is how she holds it though; there's a handle on the other side of the stock which is what she holds; she never uses it as a shoulder-rest, it's just drawn like that to make it immediately read as "giant gun."
>>47745303
>sidearm
i didnt say they werent in use. but in the open battlefield , you better get something with more reach between you and your opponent. bows and polearms/spears were used because they have an advantage in reach.
some katanas such as nagimaka and nodachi did fill in the gap reach-wise
>>47745329
i seem to be rather uninformed about the matter. please be so kind to correct me on my knowledge
>>47738510
Katana's are great for cutting down untrained, unarmored peasants.
You know, it's original purpose.
It's just a pity the nips were so uncreative and shit at actual pattern forging.
>>47746521
Okay, I legitimately don't know a damn thing about metallurgy--what's wrong with that pattern? I think it looks neat, aesthetically speaking. Is it structurally weak?
>>47746634
It's not structurally weak; it's just that it's benefits are solely aesthetic with good metals. The Japanese had terrible ore and terrible metallurgy, and used the folding as a crude hack to get better - but not as good as late Euro steel.
The early Vikings did the same with bog iron, until proper crucible steel came along.
>>47744890
In order to actually do any substantive damage they'd need to be anchored or braced in some way, otherwise they'd simply propel themselves away from the target and waste most of its energy.
Having a stock makes infinitely more sense than having no stock and no way of bracing the weapon whatsoever.
>>47735327
that's fucking incredible, though
Always a favorite.
>>47738993
That is so fucking stupid....
Requesting Impractical Heavy Gunners
>>47750428
WHAT THE FUCK?
>>47749728
replace all the cannons with MGs and patton would have loved it
>>47735478
Seeing it like this helps you fully realize the silliness
>>47750428
This image makes me uneasy
>>47750542
Somone posted a guy with dual machine guns earlier who fit the bill better
>>47750582
Near the end of WW2 some Ruskies wanted to improve the ground support capabilities of the TU-2, which had become dominantly a ground attack craft.
So they decided to add more dakka the best way they knew how.
Sadly the idea never saw combat
>>47739098
>Skelecopters
>impractical.
I don't think you understand.
>>47751369
Just seems crazy that one would use magazine fed submachine guns for that when belt fed machine guns would be the obvious practical choice, but I guess there's some sort of political reason (like manufacturer of those SMGs having big influence within the party) behind it.
>>47751430
It was more of the fact that there were tons and tons of PPSH's laying around and manufactured.
>>47751430
>practical
The Soviets were shitting out Nagants, PPSHs and later SVT-40s by the thousands and they still didn't have enough to arm all their soldiers. Sure, this little project probably didn't help *that* part of it, but it should demonstrate how stretched for armaments they were during the war's first and middle parts. There were, in some cases, simply not enough belt-fed machine guns to spare for kooky nightmares such as the thing pictured above.
>>47751905
>Nagants
say what you will about Russia/Soviets, they knew how to make a guns that were built to last.
>>47751905
They had more than enough to arm their soldiers.
In all cases where they actually failed to arm their soldiers, it was because the guns were somewhere on the far side of the country, or tied up on a train while the tracks were being fixed, or locked in crates at the back end of a supply depot with only a handcart to get them out to the supply trucks or in the process of being shipped over from the US. It was always a problem of making the supply reach the demand, not getting the supply in the first place.
>>47751180
You know, the funny thing is the thing that bugs me about that guy is that the guns can't both feed from the same drum mag in opposite directions.
>>47735327
Looks like a gundam.
>>47738776
Would that work? Don't those things explode when the tip hits something hard enough? Could you throw it like a javelin?
>>47755311
Or use it as a club? Like an explosive sledgehammer, really.
>>47755521
IIRC it's an actual sensor on the tip. You'd have to thrust it, but something tells me that isn't smart.
>>47755311
I don't think so. It probably has a safety feature where it won't detonate unless it's been in flight for a certain amount of time (Which also translates to a certain amount of distance, unless something's gone horribly wrong).
>>47755588
So tie a rope to one end and swing it around your head for a while before striking with it, is what I hear?
![Massive_Chalice_GD_5_breathless[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/etRi05v.jpg "Massive_Chalice_GD_5_breathless[1].jpg")
Caberjack
>>47755588
I think it's something similar. Jeez where's /k/ when you need them. I think it only detonates at a specific threshold, which can only be achieved if it's shot from the launcher?
>>47755601
That would be amazing if it worked. Attach a nerf whistle so it squeals as you spin it, then either kamikaze or just launch it like a slingshot.
>>47752765
2 seperate channels inside that work with 2 coil springs that are all parallel with each other and then a nice Uish shaped bit of metal for one of the exits for a gentle 180.
you'd just be loading 2 channels instead of one but you'd only wind the thing once.
I'm sure there's some use for this thing, but damn, a handgun that can take out an elephant.
>>47735327
>hating on the AR-18
>>47744701
I still don't know what was going through this guy's head. "I want to make a DeLisle but without the suppressor"?
>>47755676
The .500 S&W is also pretty impractical.
>>47755634
Pressure sensor at the tip that requires a certain amount of pressure to detonate. You'd have a hard time achieve that with arm strength thrusts or dropping it but its firing speed meeting a solid object would do it. Some even have these pins like on a grenade you pull before you put it in the tube and launch.
Some are timed outside of that, some are smart and can detonate just prior, and some are wholly pressure sensitive only. There's a few rare ones that self arm using the G's pulled at launch as well.
>>47755676
>I still don't know what was going through this guy's head. "I want to make a DeLisle but without the suppressor"?
EEEEEeeeeEEEEEeeeeEeeEEEE
>>47755703
Thank you anon! I was floundering there, thanks, that's perfect. You could fire most of those from a siege weapon couldn't you? Or even a scratch built ballista of some sort.
>>47755634
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MrwJM1_kw8
>>47755757
Or just have a piece of pipe with the right diameter and a dumbass with 2 wires hooked to a car battery. You'd have to see the speed they go to get an accurate picture but you wouldn't be able to make a bow strong enough with our materials that would fling it with enough speed. I suppose you could tweak the sensor if you had the know how.
Its like how everyone would freak out if you just handed them a pile of onfire C4 until you explain the crazy amount of force in how quick a time (detonation caps) is needed to actually make it go boom and that you can actually cook meals over a C4 fire. Believe it or not a LOT of weapons of war nowadays are pretty child (read idiot) proof cause armies, regardless of origins, tend to have a few too many dumbasses in them.
>>47746665
>shitting on muh damask
>thinking viking folding techniques and jap techniques were the same
Wew
>>47755870
>idiot proof
Hah, good point. When I went to highschool there was an optional group/class which was basically a child friendly version of military training. They would occasionally go on camps to the nearest military base. Some idiot tried to steal a live hand grenade and take it home in his bag.
If it comes to it I'm sure it could work as a melee weapon by the way. Imagine seeing someone using an rpg as a makeshift club, and not knowing how hard they are to detonate. That would be a fantastic scare tactic.
>>47755991
Well yeah. Its a nice ol beat stick people will have a good fear of. You ever see those padlock maces? You could safely do that with live grenades with slightly modified pins.
>>47755989
Anon Damascus steel is produced by folding but it was also made using high quality ore.
And in terms of technique i'd say the Norse variant was better as they produce a stronger, lighter and more flexible steel.
>>47756149
Hah! That's brilliant. You could even just use dummy grenades so there's zero chance of detonation, pure bluff. Ooh, what about a flail with three hand grenades on chains.
>>47756179
They had better ore and metallurgy as well.
>>47745316
>Railguns in general are fucking great, but this one in particular is just absurd.
>Vector Cannon.jpg
It's not a railgun, it's a ridiculous scifi weaponized storage beam.I fucking love it.
>>47745275
Except that the katanas everyone posts and depicts are oversized stupid depictions. Actual katanas are actually quite short.
>>47745698
>2016
>people still think that anything short of a kriegsmetter-style crossguard does nothing to protect your hands
>m41
>not killing CSM with a squad of weapon specialists, the marksmen talent and meltas
>>47755991
TF2 is way ahead of you
>>47755676
Doesn't that thing have bullets the size of your thumb?
>>47758859
It fires the round on the left
>>47758859
>>47758932
Here's a guy shooting it out of a rifle. Keep in mind this guy's about 6'8" or something like that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRy5z_k7tGc
>>47758932
>>47759048
Fuuuuuuuck me
>>47739037
Kneega, do you even know how awesome those are?!
>>47739037
AWWW YISSS!
KNEEGA SAW!
>>47761206
yes
good
>>47740332
I agree. A cripple is indeed an impractical weapon.
huge fucking sledges have always been amongst my favourites, alongside fuck-off sized swords and machete-style weapons of all types
all the better if they hammer is relatively simple in design and hits as hard as it looks
torchlight 2 and spess mahreen did pretty well at hueg hammers, in my opinion.
of course in real life they'd be way too clumsy and slow to properly use in combat - real warhammers tended to be surprisingly small and light in comparison
>>47762607
also cleavers
they're fun, but less impractical
>>47762607
Machetes can do plenty of damage, anon.
>>47763322
This. Machetes are made to hack through anything and come out the other end unphased. Just treat it as an ackwardly weighted onehanded short sword.
>>47763322
>>47763347
Machetes are meant to hacking (tree, flesh, bone, whatever), but not for fighting. Good tool, wrong purpose.
>>47763487
Thats what they said about the broomstick, japanese sickle, and bench.
>>47738753
That is just about the most amazing weapon I've ever seen.
Would use in an Exalted cam- OH SHIT. I could make my campaign-related weapon insanely large like this. We've got Strength 5 character, she can take a swing with it. It's not supposed to be a practical weapon, it's called the motherfucking Primordial Blade.
>>47750582
The idea was to fly over an enemy position at low-level and basically just shit out so many bullets at once that they hit something.
That, or the combined recoil would generate additional lift to help it perform combat maneuvers.
I dunno, this is the Soviets we're talking here.
>>47738510
That's it. I'm sick of all this "Masterwork Bastard Sword" bullshit that's going on in the d20 system right now. Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that.
I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.
Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.
Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.
Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.
So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen, and thus, require better stats in the d20 system. Here is the stat block I propose for Katanas:
(One-Handed Exotic Weapon)
1d12 Damage
19-20 x4 Crit
+2 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork
(Two-Handed Exotic Weapon)
2d10 Damage
17-20 x4 Crit
+5 to hit and damage
Counts as Masterwork
Now that seems a lot more representative of the cutting power of Katanas in real life, don't you think?
tl;dr = Katanas need to do more damage in d20, see my new stat block.
>>47751369
>soviets confirmed for orks
Now all they needed to do was paint that baby red.
>>47761206
This meme always low-key triggers me.
The dimension the final fight happens in is not this one, in fact Guren's arm is the size of a galaxy in that dimension, but comparable to size of the Earth here.
>>47766454
Nah. You're thinking of the show. Movie side its literally a copy dimension and shits to scale. Even that image.
>>47763487
Hence poorly balanced and impractical. Not that I'd know, I've never been in a swordfight.
I don't have a picture, but I kind of love war picks. Thing is I don't see them very often and they look like they would get stuck in skulls more often than not.
Pretty much anything from Sunset Overdrive
>>47738993
you mean you dont use halberds as your ammunition? what are you some sort of arrow fag?
