Questions tagged [hand-to-hand-combat]
The hand-to-hand-combat tag has no usage guidance.
13
questions
6
votes
6
answers
720
views
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 ...
- 415
11
votes
5
answers
855
views
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 ...
- 14.3k
4
votes
2
answers
319
views
How could armour be designed to improve unarmed martial arts?
How could armour be designed to improve hand-to-hand martial arts? Reinforced, angular greaves with pads underneath to improve sweeps and kicks? Full plate is always good, but I feel like it could ...
- 41
4
votes
1
answer
174
views
How much damage could hoof fingers do?
The scenario we have is a creature with a body like the chalicotherium but with a little straighter posture, so it has a bit of hunch. It has hands but at the end of its fingers where our fingernails ...
- 623
14
votes
14
answers
5k
views
Weapon design for underwater hand-to-hand combat
Most hand-to-hand weapons are already streamlined for the obvious reason of minimizing air resistance. But would the same design work for underwater warfare?
My story has a character who is ...
- 562
4
votes
6
answers
438
views
Effectiveness of brass knuckles as a last ditch weapon
Would brass knuckles be capable of harming an individual wearing 14th century plate armor? I.e. could a human realistically impart the amount of force needed to disable or incapacitate an individual ...
- 81
8
votes
4
answers
928
views
Hand-to-Hand Combat with Exoskeletons
My story has generally humanoid, human-sized creatures with insect-like exoskeletons. Assuming their joints and bone structure work as closely as possible to their internal-skeleton counterparts (and ...
- 2,358
3
votes
1
answer
117
views
Plausible dragons & dragon slaying for "The 51st Dragon" [closed]
What dimensions must a dragon have, in order to make cutting off their heads with a sideways axe swing a plausible method of killing them?
When I say plausible I mean (a) the axe can physically cut ...
- 29.6k
-1
votes
2
answers
171
views
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 ...
- 81
2
votes
5
answers
523
views
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 ...
- 81
11
votes
7
answers
544
views
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 ...
- 21.1k
0
votes
3
answers
175
views
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 ...
- 209
4
votes
3
answers
160
views
Mugging someone in 0 gravity?
It is a dark night and an innocent civilian is floating along a alleyway when someone jumps them. They have a bat and want the civilian's money. But if the mugger hits the person they will fly away ...
- 2,082