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PartOfYourWorld
02/21/12 8:35:00 AM
#1:


the katana is still probably the most awesome weapon in human history.

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DeathChicken
02/21/12 8:36:00 AM
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They break too easily

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Achromatic
02/21/12 8:36:00 AM
#3:


Maybe it is my intense love of King Arthur, but a non-curved blade with an etched hilt that seems to glow with purity and righteous fury of a good man shall always be the best.

That or a sonic screwdriver.

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SythaWarrior
02/21/12 8:40:00 AM
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I still like the Broadsword better honestly.

Also really grown to liking Axes over the years.

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PartOfYourWorld
02/21/12 8:43:00 AM
#6:


European broadswords are beasts, but there's something about the curved blade that I find so much more beautiful. Arabic scimitars are curved as well, but unnecessarily so, with too many odd angles that seem more ceremonial than functional. Katanas fuse the best of both worlds imo.

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Pram_the_Oracle
02/21/12 8:44:00 AM
#7:


Spears man.

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ExThaNemesis
02/21/12 8:46:00 AM
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From: Achromatic | #003
That or a sonic screwdriver.


This.

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Altimadark
02/21/12 8:50:00 AM
#9:


The Colt Single Action Army.

Six bullets.

More than enough to kill anything that moves.

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Hrezs
02/21/12 8:53:00 AM
#10:


I've always been a fan of scimitars

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SuperJanitor
02/21/12 8:54:00 AM
#11:


A weapon is only as badass as the person wielding it. I would make the katana look clumsy and unrefined.
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Shoenin_Kakashi
02/21/12 8:56:00 AM
#12:


Weapons are cool

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PrivateBiscuit1
02/21/12 8:56:00 AM
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Kamekguy
02/21/12 8:57:00 AM
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I prefer a stiletto, but both it and the katana work on the idea of a clean cut, as opposed to more blunt and brute force of a broadsword, so I can agree with this opinion. There's just something more... intimate about knives, I suppose.

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KingButz
02/21/12 8:57:00 AM
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quarterstaff

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FAHnboy
02/21/12 9:00:00 AM
#16:


Mauser C96. Leon Kennedy, John Marston, Winston Churchill and Han Solo can't all be wrong.

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SlymDayspring
02/21/12 9:01:00 AM
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Barry Burton's magnum is easily the coolest weapon of all time.

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SpicyHippo
02/21/12 9:02:00 AM
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SythaWarrior
02/21/12 9:03:00 AM
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From: FAHnboy | #016
Mauser C96




That is definitely the best handgun ever in terms of appearance.

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AlecTrevelyan006
02/21/12 9:07:00 AM
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You just wait until the zombie apocalypse comes, then see how useful that katana is when it loses its edge after a few zombies. You face a horde, you'll be wishing you had a broadsword!

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SHINE GET 64
02/21/12 9:10:00 AM
#21:


call me old fashioned but I prefer fists over weapons!

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Altimadark
02/21/12 9:17:00 AM
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Hand to hand... it is the basis of all combat.

Only a fool trusts his life to a weapon.

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FashnQueenEtna
02/21/12 9:44:00 AM
#23:


From: AlecTrevelyan006 | #060
You just wait until the zombie apocalypse comes, then see how useful that katana is when it loses its edge after a few zombies. You face a horde, you'll be wishing you had a broadsword!


Well made Katanas can stay sharp for a long ass time.

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Ayuyu
02/21/12 9:46:00 AM
#24:


Wind and Fire wheels master race.

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pjbasis
02/21/12 9:51:00 AM
#25:


Hand to hand is pretty damn cool.

As for swords, anytime I imagine myself wielding one it's holding a sword behind my back Dante/Cloud/Link style.
Whatever those are called.

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Ayuyu
02/21/12 9:54:00 AM
#26:


A sword behind your back is just a sword behind your back.

Just move the sheath.

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FashnQueenEtna
02/21/12 9:58:00 AM
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From: Ayuyu | #106
A sword behind your back is just a sword behind your back.

Just move the sheath.


...do you realize how impractical that would be with a sword that large?

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Shoenin_Kakashi
02/21/12 10:01:00 AM
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If its a Zombie apocalypse, you should be using a freggin hammer

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pjbasis
02/21/12 10:03:00 AM
#29:


You don't hold katanas behind your back!

I'm talking Master Sword type shape with a size ranging from that to Rebellion.

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AlecTrevelyan006
02/21/12 10:05:00 AM
#30:


From: FashnQueenEtna | #023
Well made Katanas can stay sharp for a long ass time.


Any sword will lose its edge with use. If you're using it against flesh and bone a lot? That will wear down any sword quick.

As a slicing tool, a katana is an extremely high maintenance weapon that takes a lot of training just to maintain properly. Even if you were a samurai you'd have trouble in a zombie apocalypse if you ran into enough guys at once, because that's not what it was designed for.

War wasn't like videogames. Samurai didn't go and kill thirty people with a katana. That's not how Japanese feudal battles worked. And if they had tried, their weapon would have been in terrible shape and ineffective by the end.

Katanas aren't these "magical" swords that people make them out to be. They're swords. Good swords for the limited level of technology and resources available in Japan, but swords nonetheless.

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Ayuyu
02/21/12 10:09:00 AM
#31:


From: FashnQueenEtna | #027
...do you realize how impractical that would be with a sword that large?


Yeah, but that's not what I'm talking about.

I just said there's no special names for swords you sheath behind your back.

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Ayuyu
02/21/12 10:10:00 AM
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From: pjbasis | #029
You don't hold katanas behind your back!

I'm talking Master Sword type shape with a size ranging from that to Rebellion.


You don't, but nothing prevents you from doing so.

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pjbasis
02/21/12 12:02:00 PM
#33:


The coolness factor of drawing a katana from your hip is like 100 times greater.

The chances quickly approach zero that someone would do anything else.

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saveus_Maria
02/21/12 12:07:00 PM
#34:


aesthetically speaking my absolute favorite sword is a sabre. very underrated for how amazingly cool they look. second for me is the classic european style broadsword which would actually more likely be my weapon of choice in a zombie apocalypse type setting since it would be much more effective than a sabre for that type of situation.

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Dauntless Hunter
02/21/12 12:08:00 PM
#35:


Giant warhammers or nothing.

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Lopen
02/21/12 12:09:00 PM
#36:


Flails are the best. Or any weapon with a chain basically.

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metaIslugg
02/21/12 12:10:00 PM
#37:


good old bow+quiver of arrows

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saveus_Maria
02/21/12 12:12:00 PM
#38:


for me a shortsword would probably be better actually. I doubt I could use a broadsword for a prolonged period of time and it would be my undoing.

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Psycho_Kenshin
02/21/12 12:14:00 PM
#39:


"All nerdy, Japanophile lameness aside", hah, that reads like somebody convincing themselves of something.

Katana is mighty.

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Not_an_Owl
02/21/12 12:16:00 PM
#40:


Not enough love for halberds. Or naginata, for that matter.

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Lopen
02/21/12 12:21:00 PM
#41:


Yeah polearms are fun.

Chain weapons > polearms/spears > swords

If we limit it to swords give me a scimitar, khopesh, or nodachi over a katana. Katana is probably #4, though.

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KanzarisKelshen
02/21/12 12:21:00 PM
#42:


Got a problem you need to fix? Use a gun.

And if that don't work? Use more gun. Like this:

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(That's the size of the bullets fired, for the curious.)

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Not_an_Owl
02/21/12 12:23:00 PM
#43:


From: KanzarisKelshen | #042
Got a problem you need to fix? Use a gun.

And if that don't work? Use more gun. Like this:

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(That's the size of the bullets fired, for the curious.)


That thing would break your f***ing wrists if you tried to shoot it. Jesus.

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KanzarisKelshen
02/21/12 12:24:00 PM
#44:


From: Not_an_Owl | #043
That thing would break your f***ing wrists if you tried to shoot it. Jesus.


The best thing is precisely that, it can be fired in a controlled fashion. It's weighty and a bit cumbersome, but you gotta respect that much firepower.

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Not_an_Owl
02/21/12 12:29:00 PM
#45:


Also, if you were going to bring up guns you forgot the coolest of them all!

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A handgun that shoots 13mm rockets. That's right, a freakin' HANDHELD ROCKET LAUNCHER.

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KanzarisKelshen
02/21/12 12:30:00 PM
#46:


From: Not_an_Owl | #045
Also, if you were going to bring up guns you forgot the coolest of them all!

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A handgun that shoots 13mm rockets. That's right, a freakin' HANDHELD ROCKET LAUNCHER.


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Viktor Vaughn
02/21/12 12:33:00 PM
#47:


All nerdy, Japanophile lameness aside,

gamefaqs dissolves into nothingness

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Ytterbium_70
02/21/12 12:45:00 PM
#48:


Not enough love for halberds. Or naginata, for that matter.

+42 respect for you, sir! I asked if I could use a halberd in a D+D game once, but people asked what that is and how it's not, "traditional" and stuff.

Lame group.

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BlackMageJawa
02/21/12 1:21:00 PM
#49:


I tend to give my RPG characters rapiers. They suit my preferred build of "dodge everything then deliver quick jabs whenever there's an opening" style fighting. That and Weapon Finesse.

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FashnQueenEtna
02/21/12 1:24:00 PM
#50:


The best weapon against a zombie is the zombies own arm.

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