Suggestions for Weapons and Protection

[JJ]

ok being a tad bit lazy.... here.. but what about body armor made from armadilo plates? 0.0 crazy i know... XD but its possible....

[Talapus]

A sword cane. It appears as a walking stick to people looking at bearer of the sword cane, but hits like a rapier or sabre. Would be a nifty concealed weapon, but should require many tools, lots of time and many materials. You could instead have one of the resources to build it be a rapier (or sabre) and just have it be a sort of upgrade like the diamond encrusting of sabres.

[Nick]

A sword cane. It appears as a walking stick to people looking at bearer of the sword cane, but hits like a rapier or sabre. Would be a nifty concealed weapon, but should require many tools, lots of time and many materials. You could instead have one of the resources to build it be a rapier (or sabre) and just have it be a sort of upgrade like the diamond encrusting of sabres.

Would work well in real life, but in Cantr, people would just be wary of those with canes.

[Grandma Death]

Would it be possible to make boat to boat warfare more expansive i.e. cannon, gang palank, ram for use against small vessels also ropes for swinging onto moving ships

[Antichrist_Online]

I was watching a movie on weapon making and noticed a few other weapons which I broke down into three catogories.
Thrown:
Bronze Chakra
Steal Chakra
Iron Chakra
Throwing arrows
Javelin
Throwing Knives
Kunai (japanese throwing knives which are slightly heavier and broader)
Shurikens

Melee:
Glaive (polearm)
Bardiche

Ranged(Non-thrown):
Fustibal (sling with a stick added to increase power and improve grip.)

[Nixit]

Well, do we have regular canes?



We don't!!! We need canes... and sword canes!

[TatteredShoeLace]

Sword....bellows! No one will suspect them!

[kinvoya]

And...sword sabres! You know, how like, everybody would think you just had a sabre but...*shhhh*...hidden inside the sabre is...A SWORD!!! And then you kill everybody. Ahahhaha!!!!!

[Talapus]

The old carving knives were big enough to conceal a sabre, or maybe even a claymore. Can you see someone pulling a claymore our of their huge iron carving knife?

[nitefyre]

I don't know if this has been suggested, but considering the proximate area I'm native to...a tomahawk would be nice.

[InsaneIrony]

Ah, I know I suggested it on the first page... KUKRI!

http://www.army.mod.uk/brigade_of_gurkh ... istory.htm

Kukri is the now accepted spelling; “Khukuri” is the strict translation of the Nepali word. Either way the thing itself is the renowned national weapon of Nepal and the Gurkhas.

A Nepali boy is likely to have his own kukri at the age of five or so and necessarily becomes skilful in its use long before his manhood. By the time a Gurkha joins the army, the kukri has become a chopping extension of his dominant arm. This is important, because it is not the weight and edge of the weapon that make it so terrible at close quarters so much as the skilled technique of the stroke; it can claim to be almost impossible to parry.

It is important to remember that the kukri is a tool of all work, at home in the hills and on active service it will be used for cutting wood, hunting and skinning, opening tins, clearing undergrowth and any other chore. From this it is plain there can be no truth in the belief that a Gurkha must draw blood every time before he may return the kukri to its sheath.

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Most hill villages in earlier days would have a Smith (or Lohar of the Kami clan) who forged kukris for the people: now there is a good deal of mass production, though the best are still made by skilled craftsmen. In World War II Gurkha recruits were issued with mass-produced government kukris but nearly all brought back their own from their first leave. Weight, balance and fit are crucially important.

The blades of ordinary kukris vary much in quality. Many are made perforce from inferior steel and cannot hold a sharp edge: Good ones are forged from railway track and old motor vehicle springs. The best are forged from the finest continental steel and can be of the highest quality, fluted and damascened. The scabbards are made of wood covered in leather with a protective metal cap over the point. Two pockets on the back holding a blunt steel for sharpening the blade or striking sparks from flint (the chakmak) and a little knife (the karda) used for skinning small game or as a penknife, some also have a little purse for the flint.

Most handles are made of wood, often walnut or pat-pate (talauma hodgsoni). They are secured to the handle either by rivets through a two-piece hilt or by the tang inserted through a one-piece grip and riveted over the cap. In a good example the scabbard (dap) may be adorned with cloth-work or engraving and the hilt made of bone, ivory, horn or metal probably decorated.

Village working kukris are much coarser affairs, often with heavy wooden scabbards and comparatively clumsy blades.

Piuthan in the west and Bhojpur in the east are well known cnetres of kukri manufacture: Choosing examples from east to west and from the 18th Century onwards, we can see many styles and several types. The long, slender blade is characteristic of early work and of eastern Nepal; the shorter, round-bellied weapons are common later and in western districts: but there are exceptions to this rule.

There is no specific set of dimensions, but the standard length of service and general use kukris is twelve or thirteen inches. A Kothimora kukri may be any reasonable size though many of the best are service length.

The most impressive are the ceremonial and sacrificial blades. They must be capable of cutting cleaning through the powerful neck of a water buffalo. They tend to be twice the length and weight of a soldier’s kukri with the hilt to fit a two-handed grip.
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Sorry for the lengthy quote, but I really really want to see kukris in the game.

[CyboRKg]

Light sabres with crystals

[Antichrist_Online]

Sorry but can we have sensible suggestions please.

On weapons how about a flail staff? Basically the flail with an extension so it does more damage.

[Pie]

CyboRKg.. you are my new best frend.

how about consealing whepons? such as... a dagger? obviously you couldn'g conseal a claymore.. but what about trouing stars? you could hide granades inside of a chiken.

[Remnant]

I think he was being sarcastic....

Just finished hunting through this forum and didn't see this suggestion.
For lack of a better term as well as my laziness factor in hunting for a better term online, the claw that Vega used in Street Fighter II. Could be iron. Could be steel. Could be an unfinished project involving three iron rods and a strap for the hand....