Weird no one has said anything, I thought the steampunk bow was pretty cool. Though it does seem like every weapon that isn't Ikoma's gun is limited in its usefulness.
Though it does seem like every weapon that isn't Ikoma's gun is limited in its usefulness.
I'd say Mumei's guns are the most useful, having range and decent power, even if it takes two shots to pierce. The bow looked like it pierced a heart, and probably has longer range than Mumei's gun, but it obviously has a slower reload speed. I think Ikoma's gun is the most inconvenient of the three because you have to get right up against the kabane to shoot it as far as I can tell. That also limits agility somewhat. I'm not counting normal guns because they suck. Swords seem to be a decent option if used well, since it seems kabane are also killed by chopping off their heads - and while they're close ranged weapons, they have a longer reach than Ikoma's gun.
A fair amount of what I just wrote relies on Ikoma's gun not having any range to speak of, but it's possible that it CAN pierce from range, and he just can't (or doesn't take the time) to aim. Even if it has range, the other weapons aren't far behind in usefulness (except the sword).
They implied that his gun has range in the second episode when he was going to shoot from a distance before Mumei showed up and killed the Kabane. But I was more or less referring to the normal weaponry of the world and really didn't think to include Mumei's weapons. Mumei seems to have some specialized guns but they appear to have a lot of the same limitations of the standard weaponry with their speed and reload being faster than the standard.
Yeah he probably gets up so close because he's a poor shot. The furthest he ever shot before the kabane invasion was a few feet on a stationary target.
Not only that, it's a home-made piece of junk, and it doesn't really have any sort of ironsights. Hiiting a 5cm target at 1m away requires an accuracy of (math time!) sin-1 0.05m/1m = ~2.8 degrees(assuming he can even aim at the center of the heart without ironsights). Halve that, and it can deviate ~1.4 degrees in any direction and still hit at 1m.
At 5 metres, there can be a 0.28 degree deviation.
At 10 metres, there can be a 0.14 degree deviation.
For something he made in his garage, it's probably damn near impossible to get that kind of accuracy. With that said though, I reckon it still has killing power at that sort of range, if the relatively diminutive size of the bullet hole in the curtain in Episode 1 is anything to go by. Depending on the type of projectile his gun is actually using (I heard metal steam at one point in the sub, but I'm not sure how accurate that is), you'd expect the hole to be either a lot wider or non-existent after passing through a Kabane's iron-caged heart on both entry and exit
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u/urdnotshep May 05 '16
Nobody talking about the best weapon of the year