A nice start would be to make the Gantz Rustung NOT A HEAP OF CRAP.
It’s totally useless at the moment.
If you’re going to make a ridiculously heavy ridiculously hard to craft crossbow, it should actually hit things once in a blue moon.
The punt gun gives me an idea.
Make the Gantz Rustung a CRAFTING COMPONENT.
To make something… nastier.
Namely, the “Piecemaker” siege crossbow from Discworld, that fires SHEAVES of bolts that ignite upon firing due to the ridiculous speed it fires at. The target is anhiliated by a gigantic supersonic cloud of what amounts to plasma.
Or better yet, make the bloody thing mountable onto a vehicle/post. Because, you know, its seige weapon that is large than most people. Not a hand weapon.
I don’t care how strong you are, that’s not why this weapon is basically worthless. Its the equivalent to bashing someone to a death with a giant teddy bear. No matter how strong you are, no matter how light it is, the problem is that it is too unweildly.
I don’t follow your argument. It doesn’t matter how “unwieldy” it is. If you can line it up and fire it at a zombie from long range while it’s coming towards you in a straight line, you should be able to hit that zombie. Assuming you can hold the thing straight enough to aim despite the weight. Hence the tripod or power armour or whatever you’d need to do so.
Same applies for a 20mm anti-tank rifle. If you can lie down and take aim on a stable surface it doesn’t matter how stupidly long the gun barrel is. You WILL blow the crap out of whatever you fired it at.
Would it be impractical? Yes because of the weight. Running around with a huge weapon like that would tire you out and slow you down a lot.
But if you get a chance to set up a shot, it should damn well work.
If it didn’t, they wouldn’t have been invented and used on castle walls.
It’s nothing like beating someone to death with a teddy bear. It doesn’t fire nerf darts.
It’s more like trying to kill someone with the Dragonslayer from Berserk.
Could you carry it? Hardly likely. Could you swing it effectively? Even less likely… unless you had power armour.
But if you COULD swing it? It would basically squash what you swung it at, not to mention slice it in half if it was actually sharp.
[quote=“trusty_patches, post:160, topic:2160”]After some fumbling around I came up with another pack of stupidly powerful(or just weird) but realistic and very C:DDA’ish list of weapons.
Sabre. Well, we’ve got katanas, broadswords and even zweihanders. We clearly need some sabres.
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Yeah. Last time I was there you could get officer sabers* at Gettysburg. Not sure if trusty_patches is looking for the fencing blade or the US Civil War sword, but the latter would have a pretty decent niche. (Lighter, faster machete, possibly with rapid attack, maybe Parry.)
[quote=“DG123, post:165, topic:2160”]I don’t follow your argument. It doesn’t matter how “unwieldy” it is. If you can line it up and fire it at a zombie from long range while it’s coming towards you in a straight line, you should be able to hit that zombie. Assuming you can hold the thing straight enough to aim despite the weight. Hence the tripod or power armour or whatever you’d need to do so.
Same applies for a 20mm anti-tank rifle. If you can lie down and take aim on a stable surface it doesn’t matter how stupidly long the gun barrel is. You WILL blow the crap out of whatever you fired it at.
Would it be impractical? Yes because of the weight. Running around with a huge weapon like that would tire you out and slow you down a lot.
But if you get a chance to set up a shot, it should damn well work.
If it didn’t, they wouldn’t have been invented and used on castle walls.
It’s nothing like beating someone to death with a teddy bear. It doesn’t fire nerf darts.
It’s more like trying to kill someone with the Dragonslayer from Berserk.
Could you carry it? Hardly likely. Could you swing it effectively? Even less likely… unless you had power armour.
But if you COULD swing it? It would basically squash what you swung it at, not to mention slice it in half if it was actually sharp.[/quote]
My point with giant teddy bear was that , one that is bigger or the same size as you, would be insanely unweildly even if it could kill something be some means other than suffocation.
My point is that size does matter, and when your weapon is larger or the same size as you, you’re going to have to mount it to something. Hell, just having a large tripod installed on it would work. Actually , what could be done is that you have to deploy it to fire it.
…because gunpowder was invented and and ammunition mass produced started being mass produced?
Even when cannons became popular, it was still common for forts to have siege weapons given how (in relative terms) much faster they were to make than a cannon, with material that were just as common. The a ballista with a proper shot could very realisticly force its way through several people in modern military armor before the bolt stops. Honestly, The Granz Rustung is under-powered, but thats likely because you are trying to aim, hold, and fire a GIANT FUCKING CROSSBOW THAT LIKELY WEIGHS ALMOST AS MUCH AS YOU DO, rather than mounting it onto something.
Exactly. It make sense that a siege crossbow is going to sucks in an antipersonnal role, especially when unmounted, especially compared against modern firearms.
A quick fix would be to add special Ganz-Rustung bolt, 2 feet long pieces of steel that do MASSIVE damage. I mean, right now you’re shooting tiny little blots out of your giant crossbow.
[quote=“Sheb, post:174, topic:2160”]Exactly. It make sense that a siege crossbow is going to sucks in an antipersonnal role, especially when unmounted, especially compared against modern firearms.
A quick fix would be to add special Ganz-Rustung bolt, 2 feet long pieces of steel that do MASSIVE damage. I mean, right now you’re shooting tiny little blots out of your giant crossbow.[/quote]
yeah. It’d be good for hordes though. Those siege crossbows could impale quite a few people before coming to a halt.
Theoretically? yes. You’d need a decent working knowledge of mathematics as well though.
In game terms I’m tempted to say you’re better off with archery as the primary skill required, then either construction or fabrication as the secondary skill-- and both should be pretty high. Actually you can already make the ganz-rustung, which is a siege bow iirc.
Quick question folks: Do we have any pistols chambered for rifle rounds ingame? I’d like to see some.
Aside from scoped hunting revolvers, there are several types of single-shot pistol designed for rifle rounds, most notably 5.56mm/.223 and .308, .30-06 and some crazy ass 45-70 Gov’t revolver conversion, although I certainly wouldn’t want to fire something like that
Usually these types of pistol are simply cut-down rifles without the stock and heavily customized.
Frankly I’d think that you could even do the modification (i.e cutting down) yourself if you got ahold of the specific rifle.
Here are some examples.
It’s php, so go to the specifications page and scroll to the bottom. There’s a list of all the single shot pistols and their calibers. As to the pistols themselves, just hit the pistols tab and see what I mean.
