[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.
