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It's a massive battle royale of NS General and you must survive five hours of fighting. The setting is a drastically expanded Colosseum in Rome. You can organize with whoever you want (if you trust them :D) or you can trust to your skill and fight on your own. Which type of weapon do you choose?

Has to be pre-gunpowder :p :D

*declares habitual neutrality, sits it out on the side, waiting for the hostilities to end so that profiting off of your misery is made possible*

I voted crossbow, but can I get a shotgun or something? Or maybe an Abram's Tank like he said...

My weapon is somewhat unique: take a bo staff, and cut off a foot on either end, replacing those with double-edged blades. That's my weapon.

Anyone who wishes to join me shall, but be warned: the scent of betrayel is easy for me to detect, and you won't like the results.

Has to be pre-gunpowder :p :D

I could use something else that explodes.

Weapon of choice: Zeus' thunderbolt.

I believe that's pre-gunpowder. :D

Can I get a sword and dagger or do I have to choose one or the other? I'm OK with a sword and dagger (Kali training).

two handed sarated basterd sword!
also i will ally with olny good fighters.

I think I'll take the mace...I think I might put dibs on Straughn and Honky on my side...I think I'd rather risk trusting those two than fighting them

Long bow, definitely. You light the tip of the arrows on fire, shoot them, and watch NS burn down before you eyes

a couch and a bag of popcorn and some green tea with honey, and eather a dagger or a staff to fight off the peole who try and steal my popcorn

so...you make another thread and we fight there?

*declares habitual neutrality, sits it out on the side, waiting for the hostilities to end so that profiting off of your misery is made possible*
That's what sucks about doctors. Especially emergency room doctors. You're like the bill collectors for those nights when you've had too much fun. Well, Judges are too.

Weapon of choice: Zeus' thunderbolt.

I believe that's pre-gunpowder. :D
Even Zeus runs out eventually.

I claim Drunken commies. And Lunatic Golfballs. He's cool, from what I remember back when I used to post here as PIcaRDMPCia.

That's what sucks about doctors. Especially emergency room doctors. You're like the bill collectors for those nights when you've had too much fun. Well, Judges are too.

Apart from the fact that I don't get paid more whatever it is I do to you, meaning I do it for sheer pleasure.

you there Lt-cody?

*declares habitual neutrality, sits it out on the side, waiting for the hostilities to end so that profiting off of your misery is made possible*
Kills Fass with weapon of choice, a board with a rusty nail in it.*

How’s that for neutrality?

Kills Fass with weapon of choice, a board with a rusty nail in it.*

How’s that for neutrality?

You forget my powerful IGNORE cannons. They're defence enough.

Dog poo on a stick.

You all lose.

Dog poo on a stick.

You all lose.

Unless they have cat pee in a bottle.

Great Katanna......cuts through all....blood lust samurai weapon! Your dog doo has nothing on this.

A long double-edged pole and a large container of a powerful alkaline solution. XD

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/nuclear-explosion.jpg

pwned. you all lose.
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nah, i'm going with the longbow and sitting on a nice big hill to pick off any of you lot who stray too close...

You can't sit down with that bow and use it effectively...sorry no snipers in this age! Besides....I'll deflect the arrow with my katanna and cut your head off. Just like Zatoichi the blind swordsman!

You can't sit down with that bow and use it effectively...sorry no snipers in this age! Besides....I'll deflect the arrow with my katanna and cut your head off. Just like Zatoichi the blind swordsman!
*sighs*

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/nuclear-explosion.jpg <-- you

You can't sit down with that bow and use it effectively...sorry no snipers in this age! Besides....I'll deflect the arrow with my katanna and cut your head off. Just like Zatoichi the blind swordsman!

T3h X-B0V\/ PWl\ls j00!1!

*ahem*...Right...well...:P

I take the Arbalest.

*shoots arrow through Dinaverg and runs behind cover*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jay3135/Hardware/pantherIIc.png

Or better yet....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/The_Freethinkers/DoujinBBCNsmall.jpg

Pwn4ge! ;)

*marvels at the wankery of that...thing*

"My eyes, ze goggles do nothing!"

:D

Give me a scythe and I'll join in the fray.

I'd come in weaponless (but not unarmed.) I'll wait for most of the others to kill and wear each other out, and I can pick up the weapons from the dead people to use.

*marvels at the wankery of that...thing*

"My eyes, ze goggles do nothing!"

:D
LOL... that thing was NS's first ever superdreadnaught, or at least the most important one... the Doujin. RPers have probably heard of it.

Otherwise, I'd probably go with some pure plutonium. ;)

LOL... that thing was NS's first ever superdreadnaught, or at least the most important one... the Doujin. RPers have probably heard of it.

Who cares what it is, it is 1607 x 558 pixels, and is fucking up the page layout. Remove the image tag, please.

The scary thing is that that is the small version.

I take the Arbalest.

*shoots arrow through Dinaverg and runs behind cover*

Hey! I wasn't ready yet!

Get back to me in maybe half a year, at which point I'll answer either a staff or nunchuks (hopefully I would have learned to use one of these in tae kwon do by then).

I suppose if I had to pick now, I'd choose either a dagger or a bow (or both if allowed), because at least I know how to use both without maiming myself.

The most powerful weapon known to Mankind.... a 2-way RADIO.


Failing that... Dick Cheney off the leash.

I'll mace you good!

I shall rely on the Ultimate Weapon, A really big rock.
It can block arrows, trap blades, be used to parry pole arms, and you can drop it on other people's feet. It is believed that the Nazis were attempting to develop a way to successfully deploy their Super-Heavy Big Rock (aka Ireland), and had that project succeeded they may well have won the war.
Regretfully, the Super-Heavy Big Rock project wasn't continued by any of the allies, as even Stalin agreed that such power was to great for mankind to handle.

I will battle with the power of Rock and Roll.

I will battle with the power of Rock and Roll.


That's another area where my radio comes in right handy.
You'll get blasted by 24 straight hours of the Best of Solemn Music, performed by the KGB 5th Guards Directorate Orchestra.

No one survives this!

That's another area where my radio comes in right handy.
You'll get blasted by 24 straight hours of the Best of Solemn Music, performed by the KGB 5th Guards Directorate Orchestra.

No one survives this!

It'll never work. I'm protected by Electric Light Orchestra. Rock/Classical FUSION POWER, IGNITE!

I shall rely on the Ultimate Weapon, A really big rock.
It can block arrows, trap blades, be used to parry pole arms, and you can drop it on other people's feet. It is believed that the Nazis were attempting to develop a way to successfully deploy their Super-Heavy Big Rock (aka Ireland), and had that project succeeded they may well have won the war.
Regretfully, the Super-Heavy Big Rock project wasn't continued by any of the allies, as even Stalin agreed that such power was to great for mankind to handle.
I wouldn't fancy a big rock's chances against an MBT, let alone a Doujin. Unless it was a really, really big rock. (I'm talking about a rock the size of Tanturaion 3.)

I wouldn't fancy a big rock's chances against an MBT, let alone a Doujin. Unless it was a really, really big rock. (I'm talking about a rock the size of Tanturaion 3.)
A Super-Heavy Big Rock has been deployed only once in the History of Earth. Remember the dinosaurs? Yeah, they didn't think much of my Super-Heavy Big Rock at first, but they don't laugh about it anymore. Nobody laughs about it anymore.

I will battle with the power of Rock and Roll.
I have a rock that can roll down hill and flatten villages. We are so alike, you and I, yet so different.

It'll never work. I'm protected by Electric Light Orchestra. Rock/Classical FUSION POWER, IGNITE!

No one, no matter how powerful, can resist the Best of Solemn Music.

Just ask Brezhnew, Andropov, and the little guy ( Chernenko? ) between them who all were removed from the Politburo after a 24 hour life performance of the Orchestra of the 5th Guards Directorate of the KGB!

Since you say it's a meele (which exclusdes ranged weapons, by definition)

I'll take a pair of 24" crystiline titanium/carbo-silicate gladii with monomollecular edges.

Who needs a sheild when you can cut through anything....:eek: :D

Aha! My adamantium shield can stop anything! It's so hard to break that it doesn't even exist! BEAT THAT, BITCHES!

Ok, I'll stop now.

Give me a mace in the right hand and a miner's pick in the left and count me in...

No shields :p :D

And stop nitpicking Syniks, I say there's range weapons in my melee and there will be :)

No surprise, most people picking swords. Polearms are your friends, people! Esp. for you n00bs who don't know how to sword fight. Nothing simpler then using the pointy end to poke the other guy till he dies (or if you pick a manly weapon like a halberd, slash and fishhook them too :D )

Aha! My adamantium shield can stop anything! It's so hard to break that it doesn't even exist! BEAT THAT, BITCHES!

One, Two, One, Two

The Vorpal Blade went Snicker Snack.

I left you dead, and with your Head, I came Galumphing back.

Adamantium can't stop somthing that travels through N-space and cuts by moving the molecules at the monomolecular blade "edge" several million years into the past...

Ok, I'll stop now.
Damn skippy. You look like Count Dooku. :D

*snipes Syniks with my arbalest*

*frantically eats the hearts of the fallen thinking it gives him great power*

And stop nitpicking Syniks, I say there's range weapons in my melee and there will be :) PLBBBTH!
No surprise, most people picking swords. Polearms are your friends, people! Esp. for you n00bs who don't know how to sword fight. Nothing simpler then using the pointy end to poke the other guy till he dies (or if you pick a manly weapon like a halberd, slash and fishhook them too :D )Until someone lops off the head. Then you just have a long stick.

A Swiss Square of Pikes is pretty awesome.... but most people aren't organized enough to pull that off.

The first poll arm to squick into someone in front of me gets it's head lopped off.... followed shortly by the head of its owner.

*snipes Syniks with my arbalest*
Pain hurts, but since arbalest aim is shit, you failed to hit anything vital. Now I have plenty of time to kill you while you reload. :eek:

Adamantium can't stop somthing that travels through N-space and cuts by moving the molecules at the monomolecular blade "edge" several million years into the past...
Aha! But with the mini-Gate incorporated into the shield's design, the direction of the molecules is reversed several million years into the future, causing a failure to hit until I've already developed a way to.... ok, I promised. Whatever.

Being a pole-fighting pro, I'd choose a pair of 7ft long double-pointed poles, the tips freshly sharpened and encrusted with a powerful alkaline that will wipe the flesh clean from any wound it causes. Ah, bliss. :D

I have a rock that can roll down hill and flatten villages. We are so alike, you and I, yet so different.

Let usjoin forces and crush Scissors, and ruin our nemesis, Paper, by attacking from both sides.

No one, no matter how powerful, can resist the Best of Solemn Music.

Just ask Brezhnew, Andropov, and the little guy ( Chernenko? ) between them who all were removed from the Politburo after a 24 hour life performance of the Orchestra of the 5th Guards Directorate of the KGB!

And no matter how irresistable, I will defy it with the refrain of "ooka look coolalay" from "Jungle", and finish all opponents at once by conscripting everyone to participate in an operatic interpretation of "Mr. Blue Sky".

Until someone lops off the head. Then you just have a long stick.

A Swiss Square of Pikes is pretty awesome.... but most people aren't organized enough to pull that off.

The first poll arm to squick into someone in front of me gets it's head lopped off.... followed shortly by the head of its owner.

Bah, most polearms had some metal running down past the head to protect such tactics. Even if I can't get a few like-minded polearms to join my Square Formation of Doom, alone I still have the advantage of reach over you and the multi-purpose head :)

I'm going with a crossbow, because my last name is Greek for "The Archer" and my family crest has a crossbow on it. :)
Plus, I can shoot the other archers from range, as I stay out of the middle of the fray... once I've killed the archers who are silly and shoot melee goons in the middle, I'll take my time, and wait for any melee goon who comes charging at me, and pick him off.

One of the polearms. I don't plan on fighting-I'll just lean it on the wall and climb out with it. I don't pretend to be some macho punk-I owe it to myself (and the ladies) to keep going as long as possible. So long, suckers.

But if I had to hang around, probably an axe. You don't have to be any good with it to do some serious damage. Think about it-maces need strength, swords or knives need some kind of skill. But an axe... doesn't especially matter where you hit.

By the way, on polearms: in close quarters, a big damn spear or halberd would be useless. (They dodge once, and you're screwed.) Unless you had a whole bunch of guys ganging up and making a circle to hold people off, I suppose. (Nobody charges a big wall of pointy things.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/jay3135/Hardware/pantherIIc.png

Or better yet....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/The_Freethinkers/DoujinBBCNsmall.jpg

Pwn4ge! ;)
pre-gunpowder!

It's a massive battle royale of NS General and you must survive five hours of fighting. The setting is a drastically expanded Colosseum in Rome. You can organize with whoever you want (if you trust them :D) or you can trust to your skill and fight on your own. Which type of weapon do you choose?
I choose Other.........nuclear bomb......I win. :eek:

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/nuclear-explosion.jpg

pwned. you all lose.
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nah, i'm going with the longbow and sitting on a nice big hill to pick off any of you lot who stray too close...
Ummmm, I didn't see your post before I posted, but since you took the crossbow instead of the nuke, your ass is grass!!! :)

*declares habitual neutrality, sits it out on the side, waiting for the hostilities to end so that profiting off of your misery is made possible*
Typical Swedes almost as bad as Switzerland.

I'm swapping weapons.

CUTENESS FTW!
http://www.ucc.ie/students/socs/fencing/assets/images/Puss_in_Boots.jpg

Poll Axe.
GO MY ANGLO SAXON BLOOD!

The ketchup bottle. I'd splatter myself with it when no one is looking and pretend to be dead (hey, all I have to do is survive the five hours, right? It doesn't say how).

I want Greek fire.
Burn you heathens, burn!!!
Ah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

(such pretty pretty flames)

It's a massive battle royale of NS General and you must survive five hours of fighting. The setting is a drastically expanded Colosseum in Rome. You can organize with whoever you want (if you trust them :D) or you can trust to your skill and fight on your own. Which type of weapon do you choose?

*Gets three katanas, sticks one in his mouth, the other two in his hands and strikes battling pose, ala Zolo from One Piece.*

It's a massive battle royale of NS General and you must survive five hours of fighting.
Five hours?!
*sits in the crowd and watches*

/picks up a yew longbow and nocks an arrow.

Manchurian repeating crossbow, with a smallsword with a rather wide blade in case anyone makes it through.

This thread has lawsuit written all over it...

I don't need a weapon, cuz im the jugganaut,b!tch!... Do you know who I am?

But if i wasn't the juggernaut..I'd Use the almighty Pimp Cane.

(refrence here:http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=15862)

*does the 'web of death' with my sword waiting to get shot with an arrow*

I'll go for a km^3 of concrete and just drop it on everyone... and a crane, of course.

or.. wait!

I'll go for three ounces of the danish chees "Gamle Oles Farfar"... it's nasty enough to be illegal by the Geneve Convention, but I don't care:D

my weapons of choice are future tec items that look like ordinary objects and i would not go anywhere even potentialy violent with out them.

if it were a matter of volunteering to beat each other over the head with sticks and stones and pointy objects by shere physical strenth, i don't.
nor would i expect to last more then seconds or at best minuets among those who do.

on the other hand as a disembodied sphere of energy, well i'd be impervious and thus able to just watch. but then why would i want to do even that?

a disembodied sphere of energy righting wrongs, no that i could almost get into. why am i even responding to this thread?

compulsiveness i would guess.

i do like to play. just not at causing damage, mutual or otherwise.

=^^=
.../\...

I shall rely on the Ultimate Weapon, A really big rock.
hehe i read that as "really big cock" first off and thought you were Fass for a minute ;) :p

At first i was going to go for Chow Yung Fat's Shotgun-on-a-string-with-a-machete-bayonet from Tiger on the beat but since its pregunpower i''l go for a repeating crossbow of my own design (loaded with a choice of standard bolts or bundles of needle like bolts AKA crossbow shotgun ammo) with a sword bayonet...

Or a telescoping polearm witha hollow middle attached toa bellows so that i can squirt greek fire through it (of particualr use against those who want to chop the head off).

I'd choose. A balista, with bolts that had a thick, but fragile shaft filled with flour and a little separate comparment filled with greek fire fuse. Upon impact the shaft will shatter creating a flour cloud which will then be ignited by the greek fire. And woo! Huge explosion. :D And If I could get a couple of others to defend me if attackers got too close, but I could maim huge amounts of attackers before they got near us.

Now that i think on it soem of us will have to band to gether to protect someone to actually make all that greek fire, unless we can have a petrol tanker full of it...

*Bolol walks in, wearing Bolese Death Armor, and hulking around a minigun*

*Bolol walks in, wearing Bolese Death Armor, and hulking around a minigun**pointa bolol in the direction of the third post of the thread and then shoots him in the back with his balista*

Give me a pair of these, and I'll take you ALL on! :p

http://www.windlass.com/foot_soldiers_war_hammer.jpg

Silly people with your swords and bows. I shall use this with a score or so of nice big rocks per shot.

http://www.a2armory.com/images/cannons/catapult.jpg

A man who meets a rock the size of his head falling out of the sky usually stops caring about anything else.

A staff should do the trick, it can hit, defend or suddenly leap out and hit your oponent when he doesn't expect it

EDIT: Oh and a beard and warlock's hat, that way everyone would think I'm a warlock and not attack me. (if they do however, I can still use the staff pretty well)

I want lots of cushions so I can make a cushion fort to hide in and wait until everyone else has been killed.
Fort cushions are the ultimate. Nothing can get through them. Also it's the last thing ppl would expect, so hopefully they'll think I'm crazy and leave me alone.

Chuck Norris. (No one said that in 6 pages:eek: )

I would choose a sword, but would ally myself with someone using a projectile weapon. Not much a swordsman can do against a bowman who has singled him out at a distance. :p

I want lots of cushions so I can make a cushion fort to hide in and wait until everyone else has been killed.
Fort cushions are the ultimate. Nothing can get through them. Also it's the last thing ppl would expect, so hopefully they'll think I'm crazy and leave me alone.
Not true! The last thing people expect is ...

The Spanish Inquisition! Mwahahaha! :D

*Bolol walks in, wearing Bolese Death Armor, and hulking around a minigun*
*swivels all 30 main guns and 60+ smaller guns of his Doujin Class Superdreadnought and turns Bolol into a smoking charred pile of ashes*

*wipes out everyone else by firing 2,304 tactical nukes from the VLS*

I win.

(Or if it has to be pre-gunpowder.... *drops meteorite the size of Mexico on your heads*)

I'm going to go with a large stick. It's amazing how efficiently you can ruin someones day with a big-ass stick.

I'm going to hang out on the edge of the arena and only defend attacks that specifically come my way, like the smarter contestants in the Royal Rumble.

I'll just bide my time and wait for everyone else to tire themselves out.

This has to be one of the most childish things I have ever read.

This makes me think of one of Fascist Emirates's pages (Mister Kalashnikov) mated horibly with the "Paradise Beach Club Nine"

Give me a pair of these, and I'll take you ALL on! :p

http://www.windlass.com/foot_soldiers_war_hammer.jpg

ooo- i'll have one of those in he left rather than the miner's pick.. i'm still keeping the mace tho so I'll have one for bashing and the other for piercing...



i miss those AD&D days... a tent in the backyard, rollin dice by flashlight...

This has to be one of the most childish things I have ever read.
It is -- that's the fun of it.... ;)

i miss those AD&D days... a tent in the backyard, rollin dice by flashlight...
Ohh that makes me want to burst into song:
I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide
I've got a 12-sided die
...
In the garage
Where I belong
No one hears me sing this song
In the garage

Unless they have cat pee in a bottle.


Is that like a Molotov cocktail?

(I almost got a little coffee in my nose when I read that)

Ohh that makes me want to burst into song:
I've got the Dungeon Master's Guide
I've got a 12-sided die
...
In the garage
Where I belong
No one hears me sing this song
In the garage

HAHA... oh man, and that takes me back to drunken singing freshman year of college...

hehe i read that as "really big cock" first off and thought you were Fass for a minute ;) :p
As amusing as such a bludgeon would be, I'd be much to worried about a rival parrying my "sword" with his own, slightly more literal, sword to be of any real use.

I would choose a sword, but would ally myself with someone using a projectile weapon. Not much a swordsman can do against a bowman who has singled him out at a distance. :p
*starts digging tunnel*

A cross between a chu ko no (correct spelling?), an English warbow (longbow is indeed a modern term), and a composite bow. Patriotism won out however, since a longbowman could, Wellington contended, have outshot a musketeer of similar training at Waterloo.

Some sort of crossbow. I don't have reflex bow training, and I figure I can just shoot people and then run away.

A cross between a chu ko no (correct spelling?), an English warbow (longbow is indeed a modern term), and a composite bow. Patriotism won out however, since a longbowman could, Wellington contended, have outshot a musketeer of similar training at Waterloo.

A Mongol composite bow has a longer range then a Welsh warbow (yeah, if you're gonna split hairs remember where it's from).

I don't see how a chu-ku-no, or any crossbow can be combined with any conventional bow.

I'd suggest the compound bow with the repeater for up close. ;)

Voted big stick. It'll be easy to club the swords out of the limp-wristed hands of all the internet males around here ;)

A fortress containing Bruce Lee, Godzilla, The Mighty Thor, and an irate gerbil.

Oh, and video cameras and a plasma TV so I can watch the slaughter.