09-11-2019, 09:38 AM | #121 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
And making a spearhead is a quick task for any blacksmith if you are too poor and remote to buy one from a peddler or at a fair, and reworking a scythe blade to mount parallel to a pole is not that hard. We see a fair number of them in pictures of peasant revolts in 17th/18th/19th century Europe alongside clubs-with-iron-studs, flails, pikes, and swords. Medieval laws on the minimum equipment which men had to possess don't present staff weapon as serious expenses, like they present crossbows, iron armour, and horses.
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
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09-20-2019, 09:54 PM | #123 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
...and 13 pages later, you guys are still arguing about this.
That's the most entertaining part of this whole thing. :)
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09-21-2019, 08:37 AM | #124 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
13 pages is nothing - in a few days, this thread will have been started a full 10 years ago.
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09-22-2019, 10:48 AM | #125 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
Most likely suggestion for why Leatherface wears a mask - because the last time he tried to murder someone with a chainsaw the chain came off and hit him in the face.
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09-23-2019, 11:21 AM | #126 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
Pretty plausible really. If you have to chose between attacking somebody with a chainsaw or a scythe, use the scythe. It's safer, easier to hit with, and likely more effective when you do. It's actually quite rare for somebody to die from a chainsaw accident - you get long shallow cuts, rather than deep ones that are likely to reach something vital.
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09-23-2019, 01:15 PM | #127 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
That could make for an interesting dark comedy. A psycho killer that keeps injuring himself trying various classic horror weapons.
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09-30-2019, 02:15 PM | #128 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
Easy, just bend it 90 degree an-
I jest. :) Seriously though, couldn't you basically stab someone with the scythe by swinging it like an impractically huge and weird-balanced pick with the added bonus of being able to 'hook' someone with it. Aside of the deadliness if you actually do nail a hit, a staff would probably be more useful in an actual fight though, especially if your opponent is also armed.
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09-30-2019, 02:27 PM | #129 |
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Re: So how exactly do people fight with scythes?
In principle sure (in fact, that's presumably what Sw/Imp on the scythe weapon is supposed to represent). Just unlikely to actually work. One of the issues with the way GURPS handles weapons is that there's no way of representing different weapons within the same basic class being harder to use than others, and even for weapons of different type, the E/A/H/VH skill distribution doesn't really have enough range.
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