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10-25-2012, 12:01 AM
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'Chu Lookin At, Seal-Boy?!!!
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Sword vs FireArm
as i was watchin Walking Dead the other night (and the episode before), it dawned on me.............if the zombies were thick like @ certain times, say 100 to 4 or 5 peeps, wouldn't super sharps swords be better weapons?
i was actually quite impressed with Michonne's handlin of the katana. it just seemed clear to me what could be a VERY USEFUL tool and defensive weapon.
with a firearm, you have to pick your shots, and quickly acquire your next target. if you don't make a head/kill shot, then you've wasted ammo.
with a sword, a runnin melee attack can be achieved with little to no accuracy skill involved, and GREAT accomplishment. zombie types that can't walk are pretty much defenseless to a readily mobile non-zombie. runnin thru a group and cuttin off a single leg on each would result in, NOT A DEATH, but a player taken outta the game until you can come back and dispatch them. with little to no effort, runnin attacks could easily clean up 100 or so z-men with few attackers with swords.
what say you?
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10-25-2012, 12:04 AM
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The zombies I have seen sure are not slow. I mean why let them get close when u can pick them off at a couple hundred yards
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10-25-2012, 12:05 AM
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Originally Posted by USEBOTHHANDS
as i was watchin Walking Dead the other night (and the episode before), it dawned on me.............if the zombies were thick like @ certain times, say 100 to 4 or 5 peeps, wouldn't super sharps swords be better weapons?
with a firearm, you have to pick your shots, and quickly acquire your next target. if you don't make a head/kill shot, then you've wasted ammo.
with a sword, a runnin melee attack can be achieved with little to no accuracy skill involved, and GREAT accomplishment. zombie types that can't walk are pretty much defenseless to a readily mobile non-zombie. runnin thru a group and cuttin off a single leg on each would result in, NOT A DEATH, but a player taken outta the game until you can come back and dispatch them. with little to no effort, runnin attacks could easily clean up 100 or so z-men with few attackers with swords.
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Yes it'd work except damn few people have the skill to use a blade in that type of conditions. They would get WAY to close to give you the power to sever a limb
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10-25-2012, 01:11 AM
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I'd say you never trained with or used a pointed or edged weapon. Significant learned and practiced knowledge, skill and attitude are necessary.
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10-25-2012, 01:35 AM
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I'd rather my own son see me die on my feet as a free man, than watch him go, broken, into slavery.
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Dude, handling a sword in the type of scenario your talking about would require stamina on a magnitude that very few people have.
I had that kind of stamina when I was 19 and an active duty Marine, but even then, I didn't have the core or gross motor development in the upper body to do such a thing.
Years of training to get to that point man.
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10-25-2012, 01:37 AM
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i actually haven't, i only know what i have seen from impractical "research."
mythbusters, deadliest warrior, and the like........not hollywood glamor movies.
i know it is an art of movement and flow. i also know that i have an extended length cane knife that with little effort, will cut thru 1 1/2-inch - 2-inch saplings with little to no effort.
I UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF PRACTICE AND ENDURANCE AND PRECISION KNOW HOW, i am inquisitive of the fact.
i am not referrin to fighting with swords. but practice with use would be a must.
in a "fair fight," against someone my own speed, wits, and knowledge..........i'd get my ASS KICKED! LOL
against z-men, i like to think i could run thru, bob-n-weave, slice a few legs in-two, run and rest. then do it again, takin down several @ a time, leavin them on the ground to crawl around til i could come back and finish the job.
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10-25-2012, 01:40 AM
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I'd rather my own son see me die on my feet as a free man, than watch him go, broken, into slavery.
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Against actual Hollywood zombies from the past, before those undead bastards started Olympic sprinting, sure, it could be done. Whack two or three, take a smoke break, whack a couple more, drink a beer.. 
Screw a smoke break.
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Come if you must, but only if you must. For the day you find yourself upon my step, will surely be the night you find peace along Jordan's edge.
I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillement of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause, and lies exhausted on the field of battle... Victorious.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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10-25-2012, 01:41 AM
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'Chu Lookin At, Seal-Boy?!!!
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yeah i was finna say..........YOU QUIT SMOKIN!!! 
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"they may get me in a rush, but not before i turn your head into a canoe....." -Kurt Russell (Wyatt Earp) in Tombstone
"if it was up to me, i'd like to see, this country run,
the way it used to be, the way it oughta be, just like it's done, OUT HERE.........WAY OUT HERE." -Josh Thompson, country music singer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0sYnro_3Rc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3R00rlA0S0&NR=1
PEOPLE TEND TO ACT LIKE SHEEP, BOY I LOVE MUTTON! -Me
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10-25-2012, 01:56 AM
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If humans have a hard enough time not getting scratches and cuts in the REAL world, how hard is it gonna be in the Z world?? Remember, one speck of Z blood on so much as a scrape..BAM...your a Zombie.
Mele weapons in a Zombie world=impractical and dangerous.
I'll stick with my guns..just gives you another reason to stock up on ammo. :-)
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10-25-2012, 02:39 AM
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Nom nom nom nom nom
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