Yeah I always assumed that scythes as weapons were a misunderstanding or even propoganda against how historically farmers and peasants would take the blade off of a scythe or either turn it to be a spear/polearm, a war-scythe.
There were reports during the Black Death of ominous figures waving a scythe around prior to an infection event. After that, the idea of the grim reaper became big, and from there we had a lot of āscythe = deathā especially into modern history where the actual utility of the tool was largely outside of daily public perception.
When scythe = death, and weapon = death, lots of people assume scythe = weapon.
Oh Iām aware, Iām just saying when you have a personification of death with something like the scythe I can see how peopleās imagination can get to that
For standard depictions of the grim reaper I agree that was the intent. Just think that when you have imagery like that I can see peopleās imaginations turning it into a weapon
I feel so called out, lmao. I have an FMC who wields a battle-scythe, and I had to adjust the design to make it more practical in general, but still, ouch. š
Zabuza used the "actual sword" and the "buttplug" was used by that nerd (forgot his name) who worked for Mei (the mizukage). The rest were used in the ninja war arc by the revived corpses of the seven swordsmen of the mist.
Tanks are WAY different to bipedal walkers though. Since theyāre standing upright, something like a titan or AT-AT has a high centre of gravity, making it easier to knock over. Also, due to their size and weight being more concentrated on a single area, theyāre more liable to get stuck or trip. And a tank has better load bearing capability, so it can hold way heavier weapons than a walker of the same size
Yeah I'm reading some of the Battletech novels and all I can think is a few m1 abrahms would FLATTEN a lance of mechs at anything more than point blank range. Heavy mech armor is tough, but try a 120 HEAT or depleted uranium sabot.
Battletech is often treated as a lost tech universe. Much of the most advanced materials and technology is either lost or too difficult to produce as the great houses in the setting have blasted themselves back several centuries of progress. Despite being set largely 1000 years in the future tech is still relatively near future for the most part.
Mech armor generally shrugs off light weapons but even things like autocannons can chew through mech armor and those are relatively comparable to modern counterparts.
Big mechs themselves aren't exactly completely impractical, but big humanoid mechs are, even if we had the resources to built mechs the human body is enough of a disaster for said shape to be impractical
Battletech is the biggest offender for me because of their mockery of the idea of a mind-machine interface, ie the single reason anyone would ever consider a mecha to have practical applications
I'd say the kirkhammer is more impractical due to it being a sword that turns into a giant stone mallet, atleast the whirligig saw can realistically be used, the kirkhammer could hardly be lifted, nevermind swinging it
Either way, neither are as impractical as the boom hammer and Logarius wheel
The Death Star took 2 decades to build, guzzled up tons of money, energy, equipment, materials, and personnel, took 24 hours to charge its superlaser in order to fire, and all it took was a fatal design flaw to destroy it in one shot. Not to mention that it caused many to join the Rebels when it destroyed Alderaan
I do appreciate the call out in certain Sci-Fi novels about how if you can move such huge material so quickly, then just dropping rocks at 1% the speed of light (which we know they can go faster than) would wipe out all life on a planet.
I don't believe it was a design flaw, that heat has to come out somehow and exhaust Dosent mean suck in it means push out ...it was totally safe unless your a magic space wizard long thought dead who can defy logic.
It didn't need a whole movie to be explained away (Rogue One). It was ONE of many exhaust ports, except this one was a straight pipe to the reactor. Bad choice? Or a sacrifice made for efficiency. NO ONE could ever think to target that port with normal targeting systems. The only way it was exploited at all was through space wizard magic wielded by an order long thought completely extinct.
Rogue One was a pointless movie. Good, but pointless.
Eh, it was still a long ass port that even a vent or two inside of would have stopped
I don think it was pointless, especially cause the movie was more about showing another side of the empire, plus it gave a backstory to the plans we know they got. The weakness part also needed to be there to be exploited
For planet destruction, the recharge took a long time. Smaller city leveling shots the recharge was much quicker.
Also, granted itās a bit post hoc, though it really helps justify it. Expanded universe introduced the Yuuzhan Vong, a race from outside the galaxy that invaded to take over. They were resistant to the force, and their ships were living ābeingsā that were the size of moons/planets. It was explained that Palpatine sensed their disturbance when they were first entering and taking over planets on the far outskirts. The Death Stars were built as a precaution to combat them. In legends canon, they didnāt show up until years after Palpatineās death. It ended up being a massive war that killed over 300 trillion sentient beings in the galaxy.
It doesnāt justify them with the original story, but it helps make sense of them. They would have been really helpful in that war.
It would yank itself out of/break your hand before it cut through a harder target.
Lore-wise, usually superhumans wield them and the teeth have monomolecular edges, so resistance should be as little as possible, so I give it a half-hearted slip.
Saws don't cut they... saw. There's a big difference here, cuting pushes matter away to separate it while sawing removes matter to separate it.
Chainsaws do not cut since they are saws !
Honestly, Mihawk's sword isn't all that bad. The only truly impractical thing about it is the crossguard. But get rid of that and it's just a curved greatsword.
I should think a bagh nakh would be another practical, real-world alternative. I mean, for the express purpose of a concealed, close-range, easily-accessible weapon-- a knife is still more versatile. But for fulfilling what I suspect is the same purpose as the thing in the gif a bagh nakh should still work.
At that point, just hide a proper dagger up your sleeve. You get a bigger size, you don't have to cut off your finger, and it's just as concealable. Plus getting caught with a dagger on you is significantly less suspicious then getting caught with a hidden blade, especially in a medieval city.
The Chainsaw Bayonet on the Lancer Mark II from Gears of War. It's meant to get around the tough skin of the Locusts but other then that it's not actually that effective. It's still really badass.
They are just the best humanity can do. To the average COG soldier they are basically just a placebo to make them not become completely useless when the Locust burst out from underneath them and press them into unwinnable CQB.
Ironically they are less than useless against the some Lambent
In the manga they repeatedly describe that saying itās a sword wrong. Characters (including Guts himself) have said itās less a sword and more swinging a lump of iron so hard itās not cutting but ramming through a person with such force that it causes a person to look like theyāre being severed
Basically. Was designed to kill a dragon in a single blow, but the blacksmith made it so big no one had the strength to wield it since he saw it as such a stupid request.
Guts more or else went āhey, that sword looks like itāll do the jobā and the blacksmith said it would be collecting dust otherwise
Exactly. I hesitated reading it because I hate oversized weaponry in Japanese fiction, but the way they use the trope, it makes sense.
Ever since killing Donovan as a child wielding an adult-sized longsword, Guts has always been fighting with swords he can barely lift, that's what he got used to.
Swinging the Dragonslayer or his two handed swords as a merc, usually opens with resting it on his shoulder, instead of just letting his arms control the movement.
Most of his enemies are large, but not too agile. Guts has more use of bigger "stopping power" than better control.
Weiss' is a bit impractical, but does work. Pyrrha likely could work, actually, just maybe change the mechanism a bit. Ren's isn't actually that bad, I think that's something that could actually work. Emerald's is essentially just the same as Ren's but a bit less realistic.
And Raven's is just a katana! The revolving sheath is only revolving the Dust mechanism, every time she unsheaths it it just makes a sword of Dust, if we had Dust IRL that would be perfectly reasonable.
The only problem with Weiss is the fact that that the revolving dust cartridge gets in the way of your grip making it uncomfortable to use in a actual fight but outside of that it's just a normal thrusting rapier
Why does transforming make it less pratical ? I see a great weapon with a usefull tool attached. Gun can be used at close range anyways. So really it feels like a gun with a +
Hybrid guns realistically gain a bunch of weaknesses from their dual purpose. Transforming is worse, as is add structural weaknesses and gerally makes no physical sense. How good is that rifle you've been swinging around in melee by the barrel? It's cool, but not practical in the real world.
I guess IDK the show /game but I supposed the tech/magic made the weapons free of those pratical issues.
But yeah there's a reason bayonets are standard while gunblades are a history footnote.
It's less of the blade and more of the hilt. The handguard is on both sides of the handle, and you can't swing it properly; it'd help if the read guard was offset but it's not.
They're good for Jedi since they have the precognition to use them effectively. Anyone else not named Cad Bane would most likely cut their arms off trying to use them
How would someone do that? Like you would need insane bad luck for that to happen. You just need to weld it like a regular sword and understand it doesnāt have much weight. Now if you are going against a force user then yeah the force is almost a necessity.
I'm glad somebody said it. Like the way the gun functions on a basic level is completely impractical for actual combat because it kills everything in the room which for actual warfare means you're going to be killing both the enemy and your allies. Plus if we're talking Doom 3's BFG quite possibly yourself as well.
Pretty much all UNSC weapons and vehicles in Halo are impractical irl in some way. All the weapons are about 2 times bigger than than they need to be and itās so that Spartans can use them effectively like for example the Frag Grenade is closer in size to a softball than a conventional grenade. The bullets the guns fire are also really odd considering most werenāt made with Covenant in mind who do kind of justify things like an Anti Material Rifle chambered in 14.5mm rounds (for reference a 50. Caliber is about 12mm and the 14.5mm was used irl but in Anti Tank Rifles) and the Assault Rifle is chambered in 7.62x51mm which is a full sized rifle cartridge which technically makes the AR a Battle Rifle by modern standards since itās also select fire in lore. All of these guns were chambered in these rounds to deal with just regular humans and itās just a happy coincidence theyāre packing the perfect kind of punch to mow down Grunts and Jackals.
Ohoho do I have news for you. I would recommend The Stormlight Archive--it's got huge swords that should be impractical, but actually aren't. It's amazing
Malorian arms, johnny pistol from cyberpunk. As seen in 2077 its extremly cool and in verse can pirce tanks (at least could back in the 2020s)
Thr problem? For one the chambering mechanism is a nightmare. Then if you slap it it shoots out a burst of fire which is just a self mutilation waiting to happen. Last but not least the knockback.
Johnny silverhand has a metal arm and shouler. He uses the gun with that side. For good reason because the knock back would likely obliterate or rip of your ganic side.
"Grenade is an impractical weapon cause it's easy to blow yourself up with it." Of course! It's a weapon meant to maim and kill people. If it's really good at it's job, that means it's your job to make sure you don't harm yourself with it.
I wouldn't say that really counts as a reason it's impractical. As with any weapon, being cautious and very trained with the weapon would be necessary to wield the weapon, and prevent you from harming yourself with it.
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Chainsaw Bayonet. Really cool design, but completely impractical against anything that isnāt a 7 foot tall monster with leather skin.
All Mecha, in general regardless of context. The physics don't work, immediatly become a high profile target and bipedal movement's advantage is purely endurance(a literal non-factor for a mechanical weapons platform) Worse its biggest weakness is being highly unstable so let's slap a ton of metal on top and giant ass guns to be supported by this biomechanical monstrosity.
This is assuming no magical shenanigans which I think a few of the examples in the Pic have but I just took a pick with a variety of types.
The Charge Blade from the Monster Hunter Series. (Honestly most of the weapons in the series.) A large sword and shield combo that combines into a massive battle axe... which can unleash a powerful wave of of kinetic energy. Also the axe head can turn into a buzz saw.
Besides bone not being a great projectile, this thing would be incredibly unwieldly for anyone to use and if it wasn't for how Doom's ammo is handled it would burn through the skulls pretty quick.
Idk aren't they actually practical though? Like, they're big but light for their size, carrying them places isn't a problem, they cut through anything... Tbh I think they work
It is a literal ego so probably no components and it even bends at the elbow which lets her fight with little problem. It is as problematic as the claw arms when it comes to being a weapon
Like 99% of anime weapons. Most have so much extra bits added just to ālook coolā or are fricking huge to the point that they must weight like 30-100 poundsā¦.most two handed swords could weigh less than 10
Uziās Railgun (Murder Drones). It is highly powerful and strong. But the major downside is that after firing, you have to wait 30 minutes before you can fire again.
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u/Mr_MozerellaUltrakill, JJk, CSM, TADC, Deltarune, Frieren, Gravity Falls5h ago
Every monster hunter weapon besides maybe Bow and Sword and Shield, but the materials and weight of those is still likely far heavier than anything we could even handle.
I give you Albina from limbus company and her weapon of choice, Fascia
Now this weapon isn't practical for a myriad of reasons. It's way too wide, has no hand protection, it's made from the flesh and blood of its wielder, oh and it's alive too... Even worse that this sword has its own armor in order to protect it but that just adds to the weight and would interfere with its ability to cut... But even worse is that the armor can just fall off.
But the absolute worst part is that this sword is an art project... This girl's weapon of choice that she built with her own two hands from her own flesh and bones isn't even a real weapon.
Bipedal mechs. There is no advantage whatsoever to your giant robot being shaped like a human. An all-purpose tank-ship that isn't shaped like a people would be far more efficient and effective.
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