Questions tagged [combat]
For questions involving the specifics of combat.
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Combat between flying power armor: how would it work
In a certain world far beyond the reaches of our own, there are humans. Humans make war just like on Earth. They have an early modern level of technology- cannons, arquebuses, swords, axes, polearms, ...
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When does it makes sense for Sword Masters to use a sword beam as a one-time killing move?
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In the creation of my Wuxia-inspired world, 'Sword Intent' is a cornerstone concept where sword masters channel a life force known as 'Qi' to perform extraordinary feats. 'Sword Intent' in my ...
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How would a creature with third-and-second-person vision be able to wield a firearm effectively?
My urban fantasy story, set at the turn of the milennium, has a species of humanoid beings called the untethered. The most distinctive thing about them is that they lack eyes of their own. Rather than ...
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How much of a strength boost is my magic drug giving someone if it makes them liable to seriously injure themselves with their own attacks?
In my setting there are various types of magical potions that provide a variety of effects. One of these is a highly potent but dangerous performance enhancer most commonly known by the name of "...
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How horny can humans get before it's too horny
Trying to create horns which are both ornamental and defensive, I've read somewhere that beards evolved in humans because we punch each other so much that even just a minuscule amount of hair cushion ...
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Best place on the body to store fragile potions
The adventurers in my classic fantasy world have access to all sorts of potions. Some, like health potions and their more expensive cousins like regeneration potions, can bring people back from being ...
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What would a battle between supercomputers be like with the battleground being the internet?
Assuming these supercomputers can think/reason in "internet battle terms", aka. having the capability to predict their opponents' movements and recognize patterns and prepare for different types of ...
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How do I make skeletons strong without using magic? [duplicate]
Skellies are just parasites that take over the bones of the deceased and use them like a mecha/gundam. A stick-insect but in the shape of a human, and made out of bone.
the skeleton of the heaviest, ...
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What's a good way to give a character a realistic edge in a post-apocalypse setting? [closed]
What's a realistic way to give a protagonist character a fighting edge against enemies with great numerical superiority, without making them superheroes? What's something believable?
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What combat gear would a supersoldier wear? [closed]
Bill is a genetic freak who is far stronger and more durable than any person should be. Bill absolutely dominated the sports scene in highschool and college, and has become somewhat of a celebrity. ...
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How can medieval people defend their societies from Vanilla Puddings?
Puddings are a common strain of monsters that run amok on my fantasy world of Algernon. These slug-like creatures are about the size of a human head. Each species of pudding has a vibrant colour and ...
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What changes would we see in humans genetically engineered for combat?
I've got a group of humans who believe as a central tenet of their religion that humans should be as physically perfect as possible. In pursuit of this goal, they've spent a few hundred years applying ...
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How could a superhuman jump-attack be less telegraphed?
There's something of a trope in fiction, with one of the most famous examples being the Final Fantasy Dragoon, of a character jumping superhumanly high into the air and then coming down on their ...
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How can I translate fencing into a fast paced, high mobility and directional martial art, normally attributed to more aggressive and rogue chars? [closed]
So my main character in my story, is of a more aristocratic type house. Not necessarily in attitude, but in theme. So victorian style long coats and vests etc, while also being rogue/thief information ...
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In modern day combat, what would warrant singing during battle?
Cicad the singer is having a downtime in his career.
Over the millennia, Cicad sang anywhere from royal courts to farmers' cottages and have been rewarded with many, many hand-claps.
But to keep ...
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Modern era with magic that will stop gunpowder from igniting, what weapons are used instead?
One of the annoying problems with most urban fantasy series I've read is that they seem to mostly try to avoid discussing the fact that most of their fearsome magical foes could be felled with a ...
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Would foot weapons be viable in a street fight? [closed]
There are several weapons that are used to enhance a person's punches. These include brass knuckles, caestus, boxing tape, etc. These weapons are often used in disorganized conflict like bar brawls ...
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Zero-gravity space bar fight?
I am having a bar fight instead. 8 space marines are getting hammered when all of a sudden a cult shows up and starts a bar fight in the zero-G bar where the marines are. The cult is also rather ...
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How does having super strength/speed but similar mass to a regular person change close combat fighting?
How does having super strength/speed but similar mass to a regular person change close combat fighting?
This world is a cultivation world. That's a world where people can cultivate abilities by using ...
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How can medieval people defend their settlements against Licorice Puddings?
I’m back with a question about the monsters of Algennon, a fantasy setting full of magic and danger. This question is about a member of the Pudding family (sluglike creatures that vary greatly in ...
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How Well Would Humans Fare In A Romero-Styled Zombie Apocalypse? [closed]
The Story takes place in the modern world, and starting from one day anyone who recently died with their brain intact will revive as a zombie to feed on living flesh.
In this question we will not ...
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Are mechanical walking vehicles useful in combat? [duplicate]
This is a highly contested issue on this site, and I have seen many different opinions on this topic. Are mechanical legged vehicles (or mechs) useful in combat in a near future scenario? If so where?
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How can medieval people defend their settlements from Peasoupers (giant acid slugs)?
Yet another question about the world of Algennon and its many monsters, this one concerning Peasoupers. Basically, they are bright green slime-covered slugs the size of a human head. They have two ...
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What would be the best technique to drink potions quickly in combat?
For the sake of scope, we'll assume the warrior already have the potion in their hand.
Also for the sake of scope, we'll assume there's no magic to help a person drink faster. It all relies on ...
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Limb and body replacement is common. How many casualities before these small squads retreat? [closed]
I'm running a Cyberpunk Red TTRPG. In the setting:
Combat is mainly ranged with modern/near-future small arms.
Cybernetic limbs and bodies which are equal (in some cases superior) to organic ...
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How can I protect witches in combat who wear limited clothing?
On TV, witches often wear skimpy, impractical outfits when going into a fight. This is done for fanservice reasons, so I wanted a way to make this sensible. Witches perform magic by drawing in energy ...
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How do I stop annoyed wizards from killing people all the time?
How do I stop annoyed wizards from killing people all the time?
In my fantasy world, wizards are quite powerful, and they can kill anyone they know the location of with just a thought. The usual ...
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What kind of daily combat or exercises should see regular soldiers burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day?
Basically I'm trying to create a combat situation and training where recruits and people on the front line are expected to burn 6,000 to 7,000 calories a day. Now despite how messed up the war is ...
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How would you show battles that take place in temperatures of between -120 to -150 Degrees Celsius? [closed]
So basically what I'm talking about here are my Enslaver Aliens. This brings this back to my previous post. Such Aliens, when they appear, have an area wide effect. Whilst their main ability is to ...
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Can compressed air be used as a weapon?
Obviously guns or similar weapons can use air to propel projectiles, but I'm thinking more about close combat, or even a medieval setting, or generally less technologically advanced setting.
If ...
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Man-portable weapons for post-disaster Arkansan troll hunters
I have a short story in the making where two young men go hunt a troll for an old widow. I have some ideas for what they could be carrying, but am aware that messing up something as fundamental as ...
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What (modern) weapons could be used to destroy skeletal enemies as completely as possible?
As per the cliché, after getting hit by a truck, our protagonist finds herself in a 'swords and sorcery' fantasy world. Also as per the cliché, she is granted an overpowered ability to make her new ...
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What are some ways combat will occur in 0 gravity
While reading Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, I realized that most combat techniques don't work as well in space. Old fashioned hand to hand combat and swordplay don't work since there's no footing and ...
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Alien war machines to non-lethally neutralize and disarm human combatants
In Designing a railgun to disable man-portable firearms, I asked about the specifics of the way that I had imagined for alien war-bots to disarm humans... but I was convinced by the accepted answer ...
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Could my Anti-Regeneration spear technology work against this creature?
My story (set in the far future) has a bear-sized monster with a tough shell. The human settlers fighting it realize their ballistic firearms are not effective in killing it; though they may pierce ...
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Best fighting style for a pacifist
I am looking for a fighting style a semi pacifist could use; someone who hates violence but has no problem defending himself and putting someone down. He has no problem HURTING the infected, but he ...
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Advanced Soldiers using Echolocation/Sonar?
My story takes place on a dark, dusty planet full of canyons and tunnels. The atmosphere is compositionally similar to Earth’s, but it is too dark and cloudy for humans to see properly.
The humans ...
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How could people in the medieval times defeat an armored vehicle?
In my setting there is a mad artificer making armored cars for the army. The cars have wooden frames with 10 mm of steel on every side, wooden wheels with metal plates covering them, and are propelled ...
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How can I make this sword useful?
The sword I'm talking about is about 7 human heads tall.
In the lore the sword is magical or at least thought to be magical. It is swung around by a creature capable of going invisible, which gives ...
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What melee weapons to use for small fireteams fighting many small enemies?
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As part of the world I'm building there is modern technology of firearms. However there is a problem: there are some categories of creatures (from some of my previous questions) that just ...
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How would modern naval warfare be altered by a complete lack of fossil fuels?
Long story short, a bunch of people terraformed a planet and then were immediately technologically and societally forced back to the Stone Age thanks to interference/extermination/general-not-goodness ...
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What weapons and equipment would be best for a Dullahan in this setting?
Note: Other than a detachable head, there isn't much in common with the standard Irish myth, and this makes use of a magic system. I'm also fine with a little hand waving if I must, I would just ...
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How would weaponry develop differently in a world where you have total technological superiority?
In today’s modern military, massive things are generally frowned upon. They’re simply too big of a target.
Oh! You have a big tank that could easily beat my tanks?
Apply aircraft.
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Are gunswords feasible?
A common trope weapon in science fantasy (such as RWBY or the appropriately named Gun Sword) is the gunsword. As the name implies, a gunsword is a sword that's also a gun, or vice versa. This has ...
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How capable would this android be against a modern military?
So I was thinking about a concept where this scientist/engineer in a post-apocalyptic America/an America-esque country(the rest of the world is pretty much normal) makes this android(a female if you ...
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What types of enemies would a two-handed sledge hammer be useful against in a medieval fantasy setting?
I'm trying to build up a set of weapons for an RPG system and I'm trying to make a semi-realistic system that tries to strike what I think is a good balance between complex enough for a semi-realistic ...
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How much of a tactical advantage does a single conspicuously dressed soldier give?
Why have one soldier dressed differently from the rest, ideally in a primary colour? Try looking at the picture bellow.
This is the famous "black dot on a white page". As you can see, it is ...
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How thick a stone castle wall needs to be to withstand a modern tank?
From In what war would one modern military vehicle make a difference? question I presume a tank could decimate something like an ordinary medieval castle as have survived to this day.
But at some ...
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Would silverbloods actually make for better soldiers?
Silverbloods are those whose blood gleam like polished silver when alive and are a dull grey when dead, an image of them bleeding being much like the spilling of mercury.
They have the ability to ...
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What weapon would this aircraft use against drones? [closed]
I need a weapon pod for anti-drone use to be mounted on a plane.
The plane's performance is (roughly) equal to the Japanese Ki-10 biplane, but without all the extra combat bits attached (guns, ammo, ...
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