Questions tagged [combat]
For questions involving the specifics of combat.
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Cryogenic Hydrogen Powered Fighter Jets Design [closed]
A possible future power source for passenger airline aircraft is liquid hydrogen, and assuming we solve the safety and infrastructure issues, it's doable and much less sci-fi, as for example, a Martin ...
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can I have a world where woman vs men in combat sports if they have superpowers?" [closed]
I don't know why but people still have a push back against the women fighting men in fiction thing. Because it's not realistic some say. Because men are biologically stronger than women. Despite ...
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Is my world top combat sport too vague? [closed]
In my world, I have a combat sport for superhumans who are peak humans. They are pretty much your typical quasi pseudo normal humans like Batman, Punisher, and Legends/Myth Bruce Lee. This sport is so ...
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Why should humans kill this space creature?
I thought about a fictional universe where humans populated most of it. I was thinking about a space creature that roams from planetary system to planetary system and I created this thing:
They are ...
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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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Guide to medieval combat [closed]
There are many questions that ask about how medieval combat would work in one situation or another. What I am looking for are some books that document how medieval combat works, so I can learn more ...
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Surgery to safely stab through oneself to trick the opponent and win in a swordfight
Through some electronic interference breaking the casual flow of time, a samurai in feudal Japan, lets call him Mada Mada, receives visions of game streams bounced around by Starlink satallites to ...
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What would replace/be the next evolution of tanks in the future
What would tank design or even replacements look like in the far future. The proposed tech level is something akin to the expanse, but for hand wavy reasons ships in orbit cannot just bombard enemy ...
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Could a humanoid spinal/neck structure support horns used for combat? [duplicate]
Bouncing off of this question from a while back: What alterations without drastically altering their humanoid shape nor horns, can I make to my species that lower the risk of neck snapping?
Let's ...
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At what age is a knight most dangerous? [closed]
It is a common occurrence in fantasy worlds to have knights, armoured humans fighting with melee weapons. Naturally, as these people age, their reaction times slow down, and as they get very much ...
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How much energy I would require for a railgun to shot a bullet in the same speed of normal rifles?
So, in this history, they just said "screw it, I'm giving railguns to the army", and they added a machine gun like rifle with big caliber, but low recoil, they carry a backpack with ...
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How would super strength affect fighting styles for women? [closed]
Because of sexual dimorphism, women in general are about 15% smaller than men on average. This in turn results in shorter reach and less mass to throw around as per the square-cube law. As a result, ...
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What happens during simultaneous hits on a tank
For various reasons I have an army that uses many smaller vehicles instead of spending a lot of full main battle tanks. This army uses mostly up to 90mm* cannons on their vehicles rather than the ...
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How would a "perfect" female fighter look like? [closed]
If one could "design" a female fighter, for example, by genetic engineering, what would be the optimal physical conditions? For example, is there a perfect size and weight? Would it really ...
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What would the fighting style of someone wielding a longsword-like arm blade look like?
I have this character who was a skilled swordswoman who fought using a longsword until she lost her left arm in a brutal battle which later replaced with a magical prosthetic arm forged from an ...
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Roughly how many levels of command were there in a large WW2 army?
I want to build the command structure for a WW2 technology level fictional army. I’m struggling with all of the different units and especially the HQ’s. I need to understand how a real army of this ...
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What weapon would be most effective [closed]
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I have decided to remove this question as it might affect young people searching online
Apologies to those who have already answered or spent time researching.
I may rewrite the question ...
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Optimal weapon for use by a blademancer [closed]
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What are blademancers?
Blademancers are mages (going by the definition "Anyone who uses magic", and not "old man who wears a pointy hat and carries a staff") who can ...
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The physics of flying archers
A kind of soldiers in my world can use certain magical equipment to launch themselves into the air and stay airborne (sort of like gliders. They need to keep moving ahead; they can't hover much). Note ...
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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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Reality Check: Sub-Dermal Armor / Dermal Armor
Multiple role playing games make use of sub-dermal or dermal armor. This includes fusing plates of material directly to the skin and implanting material below the derma.
I see huge problems with all ...
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What benefit would a deity gain from spreading out a conflict over a long period of time?
Nyarlathotep, the Black Pharaoh, is in ancient conflict with other elder gods in his weight class, and seeks to enter the realm of Earth to rule over mankind. Unfortunately, he is prevented from ...
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Defending a planet's surface from ships in orbit
For a story I'm writing I'm planning a large-scale battle between human mercenaries on the surface who will eventually come under attack by hostile alien forces. At first, the fight will feature small ...
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Interstellar combat without instant FTL
In this scenario there are two spacefaring empires, each with a handful of solar systems under their control. The two empires have been adversaries for millennia.
In each solar system there are ...
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Martial arts for small races(goblins, hobbits, etc)
What would their techniques be like, what weapons would they use(if at all), to what real martial art those would be comparable to and how would their strategies change depending on the opponent(Say, ...
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Scaling anthropomorphized 'ship girls'
Currently i'm building a world where conventional warship is largely replaced by Kantai, anthropomorphized human female posessing power of modern warship. They are basicly a human sized girl that is ...
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Underground fight club realism
My story revolves around illegal fight club, one where opponents get serious and fights sometimes end in fatality. There is one problem though, I want to make more or less inclusive and appealing to ...
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How to make a professional guerilla/partisan army work?
When you see certain wargame scenario's, there are some places that are simply outmatched from the outset. For example in a scenario where Russia decides to attack the EU (or the EU decides to attack ...
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Fairy battle tactics
My fairies are hunted for food by basically anything that’ll eat bugs, mice, and small birds. Humans also target them because wild fairies are seen as a nuisance (and a tasty nuisance at that). How ...
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What kind of combat situation warrants the use of frequency modulating phaser? [closed]
I'm comparing 2 modes of modulation: amplitude(AM) and frequency(FM). My understanding is if the phaser is set to stun I can lower the power which is exactly what AM phaser is preferred but what about ...
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How would a higher delta in human performance effect medieval warfare?
In this universe the average human's physical ability is the same but the extremes are greater. There is a 5 percent chance that a human is born much stronger/weaker then baseline humanity. This isn't ...
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Arena strategy on Tron bikes on the interior of a sphere? [closed]
A group of humans have been transported to an alien arena, where they are forced to duel in many different arenas(I've asked about one of them here). This time, the characters have advanced from hand ...
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What would combat look like inside an O'Neill Cylinder?
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If you were attempting to take over an O'Neill Cylinder without destroying it or the majority of its inhabitants/ecology how would you go about it? What benefits or detriments to an attacking ...
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How do you beat an opponent that can read your moves? [duplicate]
How do you beat an opponent in a fight, who can read your mind and therefore knows what you're going to do before you do it?
For example, in the video game Metal Gear Solid, an opponent called Psycho ...
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Composite armor plates: stainless steel mesh embedded in poly resin
Long story short: the setting is something like Highlander meets The Road or I Am Legend – basically a vast majority of humanity dies VERY suddenly such that vast quantities of regular items are ...
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Fighting techniques in an arena of rings rotating in alternating directions
This might be a bit story based, but here goes-
I have an idea for an arena for one of my civilizations which involves about 20 rings a yard wide and rotating each other at different speeds. the outer ...
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In a medieval society with gigantic insects and arachnids which ones could be useful [closed]
so i'm thinking of a medieval society in a world with giant bugs. let's say the honeybee was about the size of a house mouse for reference (which makes the insects and arachnid nine times it's size). ...
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How would a bronze-age people harvest meat from a creature the size of a mountain?
In this world a flat but giant continent holds a ginormous and ancient but unrotting corpse, from which many peoples harvest large amounts of meat.
However, as said, these people are at most in the ...
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Fighting In The Highest Of Heels (chopines)
Assuming a combatant who has trained for some years with these shoes and assuming weaponry in terms of a one handed sword or perhaps a spear or one of the shorter, lighter polearms, how plausible ...
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Surviving within SCP-3008 (The Infinite IKEA)? [closed]
There was an old SCP I liked called SCP-3008 (The Infinity IKEA) here it is: http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3008
My question is, if a group of people were trapped within SCP-3008, what would be the ...
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Are there any historic armed combat sports that don't simulate sword-fighting (other than jousting)? [closed]
I'm focusing on a medieval warfare setting similar to Fire Emblem, and the tiresome abundance of swords has me thinking about alternative weapons to shine a spotlight on. I'm also thinking about the ...
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How would one train a group of women, who previously had no idea of the existence of aircraft, into pilots?
All the fantasy races like Elves, Dwarves, god-like beings and Demons have all grown sick of humanity’s shenanigans. They started a war of extermination against Humans, eventually confining them to an ...
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What are the benefits of learning both sword-fighting and combat sorcery instead of just focusing on sorcery? [closed]
I've always liked the concept of using sorcery to enhance one's abilities while sword-fighting. For instance, increasing speed, casting waves of fire with the sword, making the sword cut through ...
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Can a heat-seeking missile track a target in “Hell”? [closed]
Air laden with sulfur, boiling seas of lava, acid rains on areas that aren’t molten and when you think you’re safe, you hear the screams of the damned coming after you. This is Hell.
Or is it?
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Despite being invulnerable against ballistic projectiles, why does a wizard's robe still get wet during rain?
A battlemage practiced the art of close combat fighting, and could deal huge amounts of damage to his opponents at point blank range. He also had a special robe, which was enchanted by a powerful ...
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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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How long would it take to train peasants into useful troops? [closed]
How long would it take to train a medieval pesants to become a decent:
spear & shield soldier
foot archer
mounted archer
knight equivalent for commoner (man at arms?)
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How long could a late WW2-era battleship last under sustained ship of the line cannon fire?
In an alternate world of magic, a battleship similar in design to the Bismarck is stopped in the middle of the ocean. It was built by a society of Earth humans who moved to this world. All other ...
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Is it possible to crush a human neck? [closed]
One of the character's in my story is a overly-augmented augmented warrior (has a terminator-esque endoskeleton beneath layers of dermal plating and everything) and at one point grabs someone's throat ...
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Realism of throwing knives or daggers
It lots of fictional settings and worlds, 'rogues' and other skilled martial fighters are constantly throwing knives and daggers at people. Furthermore, assassins/rogues are often pictured as having a ...
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