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Reimagined Weaponry: The Illidari Warglaives

Lets go over your first issue, dual wielding identical weapons. This serves no practical purpose. You can't strike at a target twice at the same time. Your weapons would clash so you're alternating. … Now the speed increase between two identical weapons and a single one is small. Both using a single weapon or using different weapons would have an advantage here. …
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I need a weapon, medieval tech, with magic, for my hero, something unusual

So what we could do is look at unusual melee weapons. Thing is, melee weapons are partially shaped against their targets. Also note that weapons have downsides. … Beyond that we got the difference of civilian, sidearms, versus battlefield weapons. Pikes, greatswords and halberds are battlefield weapons. They're a pain to carry around. …
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What type of military technology would develop in a water-covered world?

Slashing weapons like swords and axes won't work either. Metal equipment like plate armor won't work either. Rust, just rust. How would you even forge that underwater? … Resources for weapons would be Coral, animal teeth and obsidian. Perhaps fibers woven into nets. But the drag would make using them awkward. Still pinned into a net would be a deadly place to be. …
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Air robots for law enforcement trial period

SmartWater or SelectaDNA style spray. It's a liquid spray with a unique identifier. Can even be colorless while lighting up under a blacklight. As a waterbased liquid it's quite harmless. Just equip …
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Creating a ranged, paralyzing weapon

Yes. You got two options I think. Sound and current. So you either shock them like a taser. Could be taser shotgun shells for example. Or even laser guns set to stun. Like the PEP project. Sound wou …
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Are handheld electric weapons realistic?

Are handheld flamethrower like electrical weapons realistic? No not at all. Flamethrowers have a simple purpose, they're area denial weapons. … Regardless of that your weapons lack a realistic purpose. They're cool but not realistic. …
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How would an army defend itself against mass robo-snake attacks?

Sleeping safe My guess their first level of defense would be getting off the ground. So habitats would be placed over 2 feet of the ground. Perhaps concrete blocks or metal poles. Most of all you want …
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How would laser weapons affect combat and military tactics?

On collateral damage, poor civilians. Laser beams will be invisible except the target itself will have a small dot. This means it's impossible to see a laser fight taking place except when looking at …
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How to build the "perfect" versions of different melee weapons?

Modern anti-stab vests are great against most blades weapons and much lighter. Pikes are great in formation but useless in a duel. … Or you circumvent it, e.g. use blunt weapons to go through the armor in a different way. You didn't dismember heavily armored infantry. …
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What are realistic and practical weapons of the future?

With near future tech I can tell you what we're not going to see. Mechs: If a mech is a robotic human standing up, a tank is one laying down. Forcing a armored vehicle to spread it's weight over lim …
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Are bullets slower than sound feasible in a high tech scenario?

Subsonic rifle rounds can go through modern body armor. Using new harder materials on the bullets I don't see this being less true in the near future. Also penetration isn't required. Given enough b …
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Boarding weapons in space

Therefore (Although fancy and high tech) the personal weapons are, at their core, regular firearms. … So my problem is, what do my boarders carry in regards to weapons? …
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Modern military equipment in a fantasy world

So we've (re)discovered a portal to a magical realm akin to 12th century Europe but with magic. We have giants, trolls, dwarves, wizards, etc. One faction calls upon our aid. Invoking a supposed allia …
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What is the most secure way initiate a kinetic strike?

You don't really arm it. You just build Project Thor, also known as Rods from God. You only need a platform to mount it on. That will house some thrusters to keep in orbit, a guidance computer and an …
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How effective would an army of succubi have been in medieval times?

Weapons To be able to fly takes incredibly strong muscles. So we can assume our succubi are very strong. This would fit well with archery. … They’re well trained professional warriors that use one of the hardest weapons out there if we’re talking a longbow/warbow. Those take a lot more to muscle to draw then it takes to wield a longsword. …
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