New melee weapon concept

[Holammer]

Tired of chainswords, lightsabers or vibroblades for your futuristic setting? I found out about a new knife called the waspknife using compressed gas to deliver a lethal punch. The technology is amazingly simple and it's great fun seeing them exploding watermelons with it. Have fun incorporating it into your homebrews folks.

[insecure]

I want such a knife!

[Pronounceable]

Nah, nothing beats lightsabers. Even chainswords pale against the majesty of zwooms and zwees (not to mention the psheejuu) of a brightly colored beam of light.

[Holammer]

Lightsabers are beautiful of course. But this is something for the chainsword crowd mayhap? One push of a button and there is massive trauma and a shower of gore.

[Gwyn chan 'r Gwyll]

That looks pretty cool.

[AjaxTorbin]

It is silent when used and deadly to our enemies.

um-uh. so that LOUD PHSSSSSSSSSTT of compressed air, is 'quiet'.
Riiiiiiight.
neet idea, but useless.

1. if you let a guy in knife rage, you are dumb.
2. if a guy wants to get in knife range, he is very good with a knife, and can kill you without the 'freezing basketball gas'
3. if i were a diver, i might buy this, but otherwise would not touch it with a standard issue ten foot pole.

[Silence]

I still like the idea of using air strikes.

[Myatar_Panwar]

um-uh. so that LOUD PHSSSSSSSSSTT of compressed air, is 'quiet'.
Riiiiiiight.
neet idea, but useless.

1. if you let a guy in knife rage, you are dumb.
2. if a guy wants to get in knife range, he is very good with a knife, and can kill you without the 'freezing basketball gas'
3. if i were a diver, i might buy this, but otherwise would not touch it with a standard issue ten foot pole.

So what, you get into life threatening combat situations often then? Plus, using your logic, why do soldiers even carry knifes? They just weigh you down right? In my opinion, any sort of upgrade is welcomed.

[AjaxTorbin]

So what, you get into life threatening combat situations often then? Plus, using your logic, why do soldiers even carry knifes? They just weigh you down right? In my opinion, any sort of upgrade is welcomed.

While i was in teh army, it was a tool, a can opener.
and what i said was it is foolish to enter knife range, not that it doesn't happen.
and teh reason my drill instructor said we have knives:

they don jam! now drop and give me twenty!!

Aside: however, i will admit that teh air would make it easer to pull the knife out of a sucking wound. but then again, thats why they put blood grooves on combat knives.