HEY GAIL posted:why not DraGoons It's our clan title for certain history titles.
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Oct 26, 2017 21:55
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SeanBeansShako posted:It's our clan title for certain history titles. Some variation of it was the title for an earlier incarnation of this thread, too. I think. e: Here be draGoons?? Maybe.
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Oct 26, 2017 22:11
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Pontius Pilate posted:Some variation of it was the title for an earlier incarnation of this thread, too. I think. Yeah it was one of the titles of the 2nd or 3rd one a years back.
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Oct 26, 2017 22:13
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Let's see ... do I want a partisan, spontoon, or partisan-spontoon?
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Oct 26, 2017 22:13
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That ultimate fauchard 
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Oct 26, 2017 23:07
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HEY GAIL posted:they're also handy enough to use indoors That's why everyone should have one for home defense
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Oct 26, 2017 23:07
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GreyjoyBastard posted:That's why everyone should have one for home defense Concealed carry, like Manny Calavera and his fold-up scythe
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Oct 26, 2017 23:19
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I feel like most homes are close-quarters enough that a halberd would probably be long enough to deal with any burglar as effectively as a gun. And without the added risk of suicide or a child accidentally using it.
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Oct 26, 2017 23:25
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like most homes are close-quarters enough that a halberd would probably be long enough to deal with any burglar as effectively as a gun. SeanBeansShako posted:It's our clan title for certain history titles.
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Oct 26, 2017 23:36
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like most homes are close-quarters enough that a halberd would probably be long enough to deal with any burglar as effectively as a gun.
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Oct 27, 2017 00:21
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someone has definitely managed to trip on a staircase / on a tricky path somewhere and through a bizarre series of events impale themselves with a halberd
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Oct 27, 2017 00:24
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SlothfulCobra posted:I feel like most homes are close-quarters enough that a halberd would probably be long enough to deal with any burglar as effectively as a gun. When we were young I sent my brother to the hospital by stabbing him with a ski pole while we reenacted the movie Zulu. I can only imagine the chaos that would have ensued if we had access to polearms.
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Oct 27, 2017 00:30
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Oct 27, 2017 00:39
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Class Warcraft posted:When we were young I sent my brother to the hospital by stabbing him with a ski pole while we reenacted the movie Zulu. I can only imagine the chaos that would have ensued if we had access to polearms. this has nothing to do with your story i just thought it was funny, because the thing is that aunt was like 15 years older than my dad
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Oct 27, 2017 00:43
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I would enjoy a polearm based society but with 21st century America problems and polearm enforcement so people are out on the street trading extremely old and lovely polearms to do crimes with and then huck them into the bushes, meanwhile all the tactical partisan-spontoons exist only to be cherished by old men and stored in vaults and occasionally used to stab a straw dummy.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:05
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I may not be a old poo poo scholar, but the halberd is God's perfect weapon.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:17
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i weep for this world that will not be
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Oct 27, 2017 01:18
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Slim Jim Pickens posted:I would enjoy a polearm based society but with 21st century America problems and polearm enforcement so people are out on the street trading extremely old and lovely polearms to do crimes with and then huck them into the bushes, meanwhile all the tactical partisan-spontoons exist only to be cherished by old men and stored in vaults and occasionally used to stab a straw dummy. The prospect of drive-by voulgings is chilling.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:37
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Alas that real life does not have the spin2win.
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Oct 27, 2017 01:43
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"Böhmischer Orhlöffel" - the Bohemian Earspoon? That's an actual thing? I thought it was just a gag name. What is it and how was it used? Just stabbing dudes but like a boar spear? Also the Fauchards look like something out of Dynasty Warriors. Are all these variations just bored weaponsmiths going "I wonder if I can make these polearms weirder, and if that would make them extra killy?"
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Oct 27, 2017 02:12
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I don't know the details of how each shape would be used, but more like people figuring out how to do different poo poo with them while fighting and then changing the shape of the weapon to be better at that. Hooking a guy off a horse, for example, or getting a sharp blade behind an opponents knee or some other joint. Basically the same way any tool changes shape over time as it becomes specialized for different tasks.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:15
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Rockopolis posted:"Böhmischer Orhlöffel" - the Bohemian Earspoon? That's an actual thing? I thought it was just a gag name. What is it and how was it used? Just stabbing dudes but like a boar spear? Holy poo poo I actually know enough German to recognize that and I didn't... gently caress it I'm totally taking weapon specialization (bohemian earspoon) on my next character.
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Oct 27, 2017 02:37
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I don't know much about real halberds but I know that enough halberdiers will gently caress up anything bigger than an orc in Total War Warhammer so by virtue of my favorite faction using tons of them I say they were amazing weapons that deserve more respect. No swordsman has ever managed to bag himself a giant, after all.
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Oct 27, 2017 04:41
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what if the giant had, in turn, an even larger halberd
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Oct 27, 2017 04:47
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At least some of those looks like lockpicks stuck on a
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Oct 27, 2017 06:27
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Jobbo_Fett posted:The superstition book actually covers this too! There were plenty of men who didn't believe in any charm, totem, or luck. That's why you have bombers with crews like this one Were they trying to create a underflow error and set themselves to 255 luck?
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Oct 27, 2017 07:09
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The Lone Badger posted:Were they trying to create a underflow error and set themselves to 255 luck?
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Oct 27, 2017 07:49
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Pro-tip: anyone with a hot take about Europe becoming islamic within the next 100 years are grossly manipulating data, drinking brake fluid, or both.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:19
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Islamic Brexit would be so much worse than Sorta-Christianity-Informed Brexit we have now.
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Oct 27, 2017 08:36
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Are "infantry guns" still a thing? I'm referring to a gun that you use in a direct-fire role that wasn't designed to be an anti-tank gun. If not, about when did it die out? I'm guessing WW2? How effective are/were anti-tank guns when pressed into this role? Did they, like, make HE shells for 88mm guns for use in taking down a building when there weren't any T-34s around?
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Oct 27, 2017 09:21
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JcDent posted:At least some of those looks like lockpicks stuck on a The key to unlocking a man's heart.
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Oct 27, 2017 10:31
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gradenko_2000 posted:Are "infantry guns" still a thing? I'm referring to a gun that you use in a direct-fire role that wasn't designed to be an anti-tank gun. I don't think they're a thing anymore, unless they happen to be in AVRE's or something. Currently, a infantry squad had man portable stuff like LAWs, RPGs and Carl Gustavs, as well as under-barrel grenade launchers to take care of MG nests and other stuff that you needed a stubby StuG for. And when you need something bigger removed, you get an MBT to roll in and deliver some of that 120mm goodness. And if that doesn't work/you're stuck in some shithole that doesn't have tank access, artillery and air strikes exist. Although I think I've read something about ridiculously reinforced buildings in Fallujah that would have been taken down more easily with some infantry gun, maybe.
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Oct 27, 2017 10:41
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HEY GAIL posted:i think some dude in the us actually ended up halberding a burglar... It was a spear, sry.
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Oct 27, 2017 10:59
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:someone has definitely managed to trip on a staircase / on a tricky path somewhere and through a bizarre series of events impale themselves with a halberd I recall actually reading something about a British sergeant mortally wounding himself by tripping and falling on his own spontoon in my mini Nap Wars library.
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Oct 27, 2017 12:02
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Milo and POTUS posted:The key to unlocking a man's heart. Something something Hey Gal works the Pole something There’s a pun here I can’t find it though. Hey Gal! Your guys ever fight the Polish?
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Oct 27, 2017 13:27
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gradenko_2000 posted:Are "infantry guns" still a thing? I'm referring to a gun that you use in a direct-fire role that wasn't designed to be an anti-tank gun. The Flak 18 and its derivatives were AA guns first, so they came with an HE round. The issue is that it was loving massive, and regimental artillery typically gets very close to the target before it fires and must be wheeled around the battlefield by hand. A ZIS-3 would work in this role, a heavy Flak gun not so much.
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Oct 27, 2017 14:03
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13th KRRC War Diary, 27/28th Oct 1917 posted:Working parties as usual. 1st Lt Fisher was wounded while in charge of the working party. Ignore these posts until 17th November unless minor housekeeping actions are your thing...
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Oct 27, 2017 14:27
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gradenko_2000 posted:Are "infantry guns" still a thing? I'm referring to a gun that you use in a direct-fire role that wasn't designed to be an anti-tank gun. As you get to Vietnam and later, I agree with JcDent. The role kind of got squeezed out at both ends over time. At the higher end, radio directed artillery, self-propelled guns, infantry mortars, and air strikes were quicker to bring to bear and more readily available. At the low end, RPGs and other infantry portable rocket launchers, grenade launchers, and shoulder fired recoilless rifles the M18, M67*, and today the Carl Gustaf, became both lighter, more powerful, and more widely issued. The experience in Afghanistan and Iraq suggests that there may be a niche for an updated weapon more like the old M20 - it'd be a lot more powerful than the M20 considering how much they get out of the Carl Gustaf, but a two- to three-crew bipod or tripod mounted weapon in the same weight range (~100lbs/47kg). *The M67 is a little weird because it was designed to be operated like the M20, as a mounted crew serviced weapon, but it weighs less than the M18 which was designed for shoulder firing. In practical terms it was used more like the M18 and Carl Gustaf. Comrade Gorbash fucked around with this message at 15:09 on Oct 27, 2017 |
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Oct 27, 2017 14:51
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i saw this and felt like it would be pretty relevant to this thread's interests: https://twitter.com/PadraigBelton/status/923826743198314498
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Oct 27, 2017 15:25
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it's beautiful.. I feel like I could click 'about' and it would be named Hegel.jpg 
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Oct 27, 2017 15:29
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