BigDummy
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Haba said:I found the ideal woman for you guys!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJHnn2Z_g2w
Otherwise, attempts to find videos of people actually throwing a chakram have proven to be fruitless.
When it comes to those 'exotic' weapons, it would actually be interesting to hear your thoughts on how to actually implement their unique aspects in a game.
Lets say we pit a Philippino Kampilan
versus a Panabas
Do we just say that one can do slashing and piercing damage, while other only slashing and uses axe skill?
I don't know what parameters you use for weapons, but here is how I would interpret these for my system.
Both of these weapons are specialized choppers, you could thrust with either blade, certainly into soft flesh, but neither is specialized for piercing.
The panabas looks to me to belong to the family of convex curved chopping blades, along with the Dacian Falx, Turkish yataghan, Indian Sosun Pata, Greek Kopis, Celtiberian Falcata, and Gurkha Kurkri knife. These blades are very effective cutters, they cut something like a meat-cleaver or an axe, but that is different from a draw-cut ( slice or a slash) again, depending on your paramters.
A slice is more effective against naked flesh, a chop like a weapon like this would deliver would cut through harder targets like skulls, femurs, shields etc. quite effectively. It would more effective against armor, maybe up to the level of lamellar but probably not mail.
These both appea to be relatively heavy-bladed weapons, which again enhances a certain type of cutting ability not unlike an Axe. With it's relatively long grip the Panabas seems to me to fall somewhere between certain variants of a Burmese / Thai "Dha" and an Indian "Bhuj" or 'Elephant Knife'
Dha
Bhuj
An axe skill or a polearm skill might be appropriate I guess, though you can't hook with the blade the way you can with an axe. There is no hand protection.
The Kampilan reminds me of a Falchion, or possibly a bit like a German messer, depending on the balance and the weight. I have two questions, does the hilt act as a counterweight at all (probably not since it appears to be organic material) and is the cross functinal as hand protection? (again not sure since it looks like it's wood, but maybe really tough hardwood).
If the pommel part of the hilt acts as a counterweight and the cross is functional as hand protection I'd say this is a weapon you would use as a sword. Depending on the wieght / balance I would guess the Kampilan would be much better for defense and quicker in follow-up attacks than the Panabas.
I gather the Kampilan was an indigneous weapon which was around before the Spanish showed up, is that correct? What was the level of metalurgy, were these iron or steel or case hardened iron or full pattern welded or what?
Also are both or either of these weapons double-edged? If so this allows false-edge cutting techniques if your system includes those, they can be pretty significant, it's one of the main differences between Dao and Jian techniques in Chinese fencing.
So many weapon geek questions... so little time between doing actual work...
BD