Popular Weapon Designs.

I've never understood scythes that had the blade on the inside. I mean, I know that's how real scythes are, but real scythes are used for farming. A weaponized scythe ought to have both the inside and outside sharpened.

No, a real weaponized scythe takes the blade off and reattaches it pointing outwards like a traditional pole arm because that is a far more effective configuration. Read the wiki article on the war scythe if you want to know how scythes were actually used in combat.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_scythe

Even if the user in question is a magical girl, it still deserve some better design perks.

The least of which is that in order for one to use a schythe correctly, the head needs to have a bend from the body so you can get an optimised cut. And in order to use the outside as a blade you also need to mount a side bar, like real scythes to grip it and stab forward with the wide blade or swing it backwards. But as Forgetful mentioned it IS weilded by a Magical Girl so all our arguments are moot.

A workable alternative (without altering the direction of the blade like the war scythe does: role of cool says it has to look like a scythe!) would be to use a heavier blade, with a stabbing point, much like a double-handed pick.

Well at that point it doesn't look much a scythe anymore, which sort of defeats the point of having one in a fictional setting.

Can be fired from the hip, and only from the hip. Combine that with the lack of sights and you're not going to be able to hit anything at a decent range. It's almost useless from a support position because it has no bipod- you're just going to be resting the end of the barrel against a flat surface. In that configuration the back grip is at the wrong angle and will be incredibly awkward to use.

Grenade launcher is basically unusable. I'm still trying to figure out how you would grip the thing to use it, and the only positions I can come up with are unworkable.

It was actually them playing around with the kind of weapons you might see once we got things like exoskeletons/power armor and no longer relied on having to physically look through sights instead of having sights in our helmets.

They didn't like the results themselves.

They need four of these to improve tactioo- accuracy. To improve accuracy.

NC Grenade Launcher (Planetside 2)


VS Grenade Launcher (Planetside 2)


TR Grenade Launcher (Planetside 2)

As the good colonel o'neill pointed out, the only task the staff weapon is remotely useful at is terrifying peasants.

-has no stock.
-does not have automatic or burst fire abilities (unless used as part of a gatling, thank you Hotpoint)
-has no sights and is therefore difficult at best to aim with.

The staff weapon technology isn't too bad. It's ROF and accuracy could be improved, but it's pretty powerful. The ergonomics of the actual weapon, however, are godawful. It has no sights at all and can only be fired from positions that are nearly impossible to aim from.

The Kull repeater was a major advancement, but had its ergonomic issues as well. Tech good application of tech bad.

NC Grenade Launcher: Bulky as hell and the stock is laughable, with a length of pull (correct term?) of about two inches. Don't see anywhere to grip the forward part of the gun.

TR Grenade Launcher: Better design overall, but stock is still a joke.

Prothean Particle Rifle.



And

BR55HB SR for Halo 4.

1-Chop/Poker
2-Smashing Stick
3-Penetrator Stick
4-Pocket Chop/poker
5-Superchopper
6-Pokey stick
7-Ballistic Pokey Stick and Tension Launcher
8-Deflector Disk

Zor

Uh, is the handle pointing one way while the rest points another?

Epic Retard. The angle's wrong to pierce, and the blade's pointing the wrong way to cut.

A piercing scythe should bend the shaft backwards so you can land the tip less clumsily.

A cutting scythe's blade should be in, y'know, the direction you're swinging it.

Particle rifle doesn't seem to have any sort of sighting system. Presumably this wasn't a problem for the Protheans. Ergonomics no good for a human, doesn't look good for a Prothean either.

I didn't think there was anything seriously wrong with the BR55, but looking closer, is the fire-mode selector above the receiver?!

Double-barrel guns were historically either shotguns (accuracy unimportant) or precisely regulated rifles that converge lines of fire at a distance like 50m.

These...are neither and so would shoot like crap while being as heavy as single barrel pistols that would be both more accurate and more powerful.

You ass, that was my thread!














Anyway, here's my contribution (DC-15A):

The main rifle grip looks pretty easy to break off. Unless it serves some other purpose like firing a grenade launcher add-on (which, from Rex's narrative text in 'No Prisoners', the DC-15 isn't supposed to have), it seems like something that could easily just be done by molding it as a solid object. It might be a scope to pop up, but I can't tell with that angle.

Here's a little Clone Commando toy...

The sighting system is up top, inside that little ridge thing coming off the stock.

The ergonomics look ok, considering it has no recoil. I'd have liked a better stock, but whatever, it's enough to steady it at least.