guns vs swords: which is cooler?

[Caldari Ghost]

guns

[Funky Monk]

Swords, that's a fact, end of story

[AdahnGorion]

We all know that spears are superior to both.

[talemore]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarkCrystalMethod:

Back in Ghengis' day they had bows and arrows(effectively guns) and took over most of the world who just had swords. There's something to be made out of killing people at a distance.

It didn't really change anything. Ideas are bulletproof.

[Arkhyel]

I've always loved blunt weapons (morning star, anyone?), but if I had to choose between gun and a sword... it's a gun for me.

[DarkCrystalMethod]

I don't need no gun!
I can throw bullets pretty hard.

[Swarmfly]

Guns make all sorts of cool noises by design.

Swords and other such kitchen utensils have been obsolete ever since we learned how to throw rocks.

[Chaosolous]

I want a gun that shoots swords.

[Xero_Daxter]

Fun fact for you but swords are mostly used as a backup weapon. Spears and pike dominated the battlefield.

[Yzal]

A gun that shoots swords instead of bullets.

[Kobs]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von DarkCrystalMethod:

I don't need no gun!
I can throw bullets pretty hard.

I bet my gun throws them harder

2,409 feet per second (734 m/s)... Speed of sound is 343m/s so that bullet is going over mach 2

[Caldari Ghost]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von BlackBloodRum:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Caldari Ghost:

no, GUNS

No, SWORDS!

NO, GUNS!!1

[Stranger]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Xero_Daxter:

Fun fact for you but swords are mostly used as a backup weapon. Spears and pike dominated the battlefield.

They were both so fragile and so much of the heavy fighting focused around them that they tended to break within 12 hours of the average melee.

Consequently, the sword you carried and the swords everyone else carried as backup weapons became more prevalent the longer a fight went on.

As arms economies became more developed the wood involved in creating a spear increasingly became looked at as a waste of good arrow material, whereas the mostly-separate iron economy that was necessary for armoring dovetailed nicely with creating junk swords. The two economies had become separate.

Pike and shot became popular because iron and gunpowder replaced wood as a primary ammunition material. Thus freeing up tons and tons of wood for 16 foot pikes. That and the dominance of cavalry, which was often wholly useless against pike formations.

Japan disfavored the pike owing to the controls placed over tree growth, in order to control wood production and consequently arrow production. The Yari rarely reached over 1.8M in length.

[SHAZBOT]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cf6SaA-Kdro

that was monotonous. i choose guns.

[Adversary]

Why not both? You've got matchlock gun swords, wheel lock pistol swords, flintlock pistol swords, percussion pistol swords, and revolver swords. Someone modernize the idea of putting a gun in your sword and distribute that ♥♥♥♥ to the masses. Hell, considering that you can finna walk around with a broadsword in Texas I bet they'd sell like hotcakes there. Make ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ AKatana-17s or something like that, I don't know.

Would make about as much sense as the weaponry I cook up for my homebrew setting that no one wants to play.

[Zoey (Trans Rights!)]

Why not both? Gunswords! As silly and impractical as they'd be I also think they are really cool in concept.