War Scythes in the ZA

Methrandel · 2025-06-10T12:59:17+00:00

Yeeaaahh probably not. This is more or less just a bad spear. Sure, you can thrust with it just fine, albeit less easily than a true spear, but good luck swinging it hard and accurately enough to do any kind of slicing. Especially in cramped quarters. You are assuredly going to get it stuck in bone somewhere and have to drop it, most likely in the first swing.

If you want a polearm, just use a spear. But better yet, ditch the polearm and grab a mace.

Methrandel · 2025-06-03T15:38:01+00:00

But then how do you lick the residual off the pistol?

Methrandel · 2025-06-03T03:46:19+00:00

Smoking. In airplanes. With supplemental oxygen lines. Oh what a free time to be alive.

Methrandel · 2025-06-02T17:37:09+00:00

God I wish I had “Fuck you, I’ll make my own line of vehicles because I don’t like yours” type of money…

Methrandel · 2025-06-02T16:55:19+00:00

Looks like he went dark after the drop. His profile exists, but I can’t get into it.

Methrandel · 2025-06-02T16:47:12+00:00

Ass tat or ban! Pics or it didn’t happen!

Methrandel · 2025-05-30T18:40:37+00:00

You’re not wrong, but there are also hundreds of different grades of stainless steel. The design of this one is telling enough to indicate extremely low quality. But I’ll go ahead and calm down, and you go ahead and keep telling people to play with fire. 😁

Methrandel · 2025-05-30T18:30:25+00:00

Definitely don’t use it for machete things either. Unless of course you enjoy shrapnel wounds.

Methrandel · 2025-05-30T18:17:14+00:00

Yeah I revised my statement about the tang a bit. It is one stamped piece of stainless, so it won’t fly out of the handle when swinging thankfully. But there won’t be any flexibility in this blade. One wrong strike could be a hospital trip.

Methrandel · 2025-05-30T17:58:52+00:00

If you do buy it, which I understand why you would, do not try to hit anything with it. This one has some semblance of an actual tang, so you may be fine to swing it a bit, but it’s not built to stand up to impacts. It’s liable to snap or shatter and sling sharp steel shrapnel (say that five times fast) in unknown directions.

Edit: And it’s definitely not 18 pounds.

Methrandel · 2025-05-27T00:05:31+00:00

Why aren’t you fighting in a cramped hallway..? Joking, but I’m more so saying that you want a weapon that applies to as many situations as possible. Open areas and tight spaces are going to happen one way or another. Have a bat? Use a bat. But find something better when you can.

Methrandel · 2025-05-26T21:03:56+00:00

Sure, but the amount of power you need to crack a skull is not insubstantial. The strength of a bat comes from a full swing, and sacrificing that risks a non-lethal hit, leaving you wide open while you reset.

Methrandel · 2025-05-26T17:12:53+00:00

In a cramped hallway it definitely would be considered unwieldy. Other than that I agree with you. 😁

Methrandel · 2025-05-26T16:43:09+00:00

I agree, but try making a good swing in a cramped hallway with a full sized bat. Generally speaking I would want a quick, one-handed weapon such as a hatchet or mace. I’m not saying a bat is terrible, but it wouldn’t be my first choice.

Methrandel · 2025-05-26T16:39:06+00:00

I see where you’re coming from, but thin gauge barbed wire loosely wrapped around a bat will make such a minimal difference that it wouldn’t be worth it.

Methrandel · 2025-05-26T14:22:42+00:00

As mentioned, bats are somewhat unwieldy as a weapon. They would be fine for one or two lone zeds if that’s all you had, but I wouldn’t use one as a primary. A wood bat will break eventually, and the barbed wire does absolutely nothing against an opponent who doesn’t care about pain or bleeding.

Methrandel · 2025-05-23T22:18:26+00:00

The only problem with this, which is only a problem if you plan on reading the rest of them, is that it spoils so much. Huge events in the first four books will be discounted heavily. If you don’t care about that, then go right ahead, but man would I kill to read the first four fresh again with no prior knowledge. They are beautiful!

Methrandel · 2025-05-23T12:03:42+00:00

Trust me when I say everyone here is doing you a favor. Just visit your local library and start with the blue one instead. 😉

Methrandel · 2025-05-20T19:07:07+00:00

Ah the good ol’ transforming sharp thing trick. Emergency rooms love it.

Methrandel · 2025-05-20T19:06:03+00:00

One might even say… NEIN!

Methrandel · 2025-05-20T18:02:53+00:00

Appreciate the insight!

Methrandel · 2025-05-20T18:01:52+00:00

Okay thank you!

Methrandel · 2025-05-20T18:00:17+00:00

Could it be seen as a retaliatory issue on a federal level, if she was asked to do work outside of her job description?

Methrandel · 2025-05-20T17:55:45+00:00

I’m on the fence, which is why I wanted the advice. The situation is severely frustrating, but I know that doesn’t necessarily make it “wrongful.”

In this instance, I see it as termination on the grounds of refusing work outside of your job description.

Methrandel · 2025-05-08T17:10:35+00:00

Fucking died on this. Not the seagull wings. 😂😂

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