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pre installed anti boarding Have autonomous or steerable weapons in flour, ceiling and walls. … turn main weapons on the ship Some of the low yield ship to ship weapons could be turned inwards. Look out that you don't destroy vital systems and this can be very lethal. …

The bombs themselves aren't that impressive, what you can do with them is: Demolition Charge Get the bomb into a wall or under a structure. A surface explosion will always do less damage than an explo …

Electron particle beams are quite interesting weapons. What they shoot would look like a lightning bolt, and the beam keeps itself focused in an atmosphere. … One application I considered was this weapons use against robots of cyborgs. …

Finally one must consider the weapons one employs in the context of the campaign as a whole. … Whatever weapons you employ will influence 2 and 3 very directly, but 1 in a secondary manner. …

My scifi settings armory is filling up with many interesting weapons. … However, while energy weapons, Gyrojets, Tangler guns and the like outperform slugthrowers in special applications, concentional slugthrowers still reighn supreme as all-round guns. …

Strategic Greenhouse Effect Weapons Chemical warfare is a good idea, but you are not targeting correctly. Don't aim at soldiers or population, aim at the Ecology. … Not much different from running a nuclear weapons program. …

With blunt steel weapons not with some LARP toys. I can tell you how we deal with an enemy with a shield and then some historical methods I know. … Generally these weapons are inferior to swords as they are slower. …

As stability and maneuverability are very important for fights in the canopy blade weapons are going to be chosen over blunt, top-heavy weapons (maces and axes) and long weapons (spears and polearms). … Crossbows and big, powerful bows (longbow) would serve as sniper weapons while rapidly firable, small bows (short bows) will be used by raiders. Think steppe-nomad tactics. …

After doing a lot of reading on space warfare on Atomic Rockets, ToughSF and other websites, I was almost sold on laser dominance. Sure, a continuous wave laser could be countered by cooling the hull …

Use Shotguns What exactly does a Gatling Gun do? It spits out a lot of bullets quickly. Why do you want to spit out a lot of bullets quickly? Because hitting a fast moving target is hard and if you f …

After reading up on space warfare for a while now, I'd like show how I imagine a realistic depiction of lasers in space combat. This question is more about the general perception of lasers the charact …

I'm currently designing the armory for my far-future hard-scifi setting. Technology is quite advanced and for the purpose of this question assume that liquid metallic hydrogen (LMH from now on) is act …

The local democratic regime has mostly disarmed the police force, the only weapons available to them on normal duty are so called "Whip Hounds". …

While these things sound like defenses against very modern weapons, one should consider that chemical and biological warefare are ancient. … So the battlefields of your alternative history are quite possibly within flamethrower lit nerve gas fog, where infantry armed with all the weapons you mentioned is not trying to stab or crush the ememy …

Radio Jamming When you jamm a communication device, you figure out its frequency and then you mess with it with a more powerful radio of your own. Jamming may be obvious: Obvious jamming is easy to d …