Is it realistic for an animal to not be able to be hurt by guns but be vulnerable to weapons like swords and spears and maces supposing that the users are that much stronger than humans like us?
Supposing there is defensive magic in this world and users can apply a forcefield around them that essentially acts as a barrier against physical attacks but with a certain limit. Disregarding any other type or use of magic.
Is it possible that swords would have a better chance to breach said barrier than a bullet? To help, imagine that the barriers act like plate armor just without hindering the movement of the user and is essentially weightless. The main difference between the two questions is that in the second, any attack that gets through is enough to remove the combatant from the fight. While in the first, animals can take much more damage before succumbing to their wounds, requiring either precision attacks in vulnerable spots, either pre-existing due to their anatomy or created by an attack, if said attack cannot be repeated many times, e.
On your first point: Most bullet proof armor is definitely not "Stab-Proof". Kevlar is a weave of fabrics that will absorb the impact of a bullet by distributing the impact force over a greater area. However, a knife point is narrow enough that it can cut enough of the fabric threads to create a hole and can lead to further slicing once the initial penetration action.
If this were to occur in nature why not, life is weird than yes, a sword of some type would be more efficient then a gun. That is not to say, though, that guns don't work. Kevlar does have a limit to its effectiveness and people can get substantial bruising if hit by a bullet, even if the impact is limited to the vest I've even see denting occur, rendering the entire vest useless and forcing the user to get a new one. I can imagine a scenario where the animal could be shot with enough ammo available, but I think it will either take something more than a Wild West Era gun OR armor piercing rounds I'm not sure if they existed in the era you're looking at.
As for Armor, it's harder to say. Plate Armor evolved to defend against Claymores and other European style swords that were big, heavy, and relied on being massive and sharp.
A rapier or other narrow stabbing style sword would be more effective, as there would be gaps that were smaller chain mail was the block for this. Japanese swords, conversely, were designed to be light slashing weapons and most Katana use wasn't designed to cross blades I recall. At any rate, there is a reason why we don't send troops into combat in Knight or Samurai armor anymore, so I would say a gun could probably be more effective.
Had the villain shot twice, both uses would have died TL;DR: Swords vs. Swords vs. Guns on magic armor I'd lean to guns, only because Plate Armor wasn't meant for bullet stopping. In the Dune series people had personal force fields that produced a force proportional to the speed of the object trying to penetrate it.
Lasers and guns were useless outside the field. But in hand to hand fighting a knife could be pushed through the field slowly. Presumably a gun could as well but the knife made for a better story.
Secondly, every life form has to have "ports". Places where materials have to enter and exit. And some of the sensors have to be exposed as well, like eyes and ears. The latter typically have bone behind them but it is also typically much thinner. The bow and arrow is an ancient weapon used for both hunting game and killing enemies.
Bronze Age bows came in two types: the simple curved bow and the composite bow. The simple bow was constructed from one piece of wood, sometimes strengthened with sinew and a natural glue. Composite bows, more common in Egypt and the Aegean during the Bronze Age, delivered far greater power and distance by gluing together layers of wood, animal horn, tendons and sinew. Throughout the Bronze Age, arrowheads were just as likely to be made of flint or obsidian as bronze.
In Germany, archeologists recovered dozens of weapons from what appears to be a Bronze Age battlefield dating between and B. Among the finds were human remains with a flint arrowhead still lodged in a shoulder joint. One was a heavy wooden club more than two feet long with a thickened end similar to a baseball bat. The other was more menacing—it looked like a croquet mallet with a slightly bent handle and a fist-like head. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us!
Twice a week we compile our most fascinating features and deliver them straight to you. Live TV. This Day In History. If the attack have a fire arm draw and attacks another person who does not have their weapon drawn at close range the former will still have the clear advantage and arguably would have an ever greater chance to succeed than the swordsman,. Guns can be used with minimal skill, Swords take knowledge and skill to use effectively. If someone is behind a barrier in a car, Etc a sword cannot access them, But a gun can shoot through the car and harm them.
A gun can shoot a person wielding a sword before they get close enough to use the sword. Some guns can shoot several times in the time it takes for one sword swing.
A gun can kill from a distance, Or at point blank range, A sword has a limited range. A gun weighs less and can be used by even frail people, While a sword takes more strength to use effectively. If a sword misses its target and hits a hard surface, The momentum of the swing hitting the surface ends up going into the sword and could cause the person to lose control and drop the sword.
If the sword swings and hits a penetrable surface like a tree or plastic, It could potentially get stuck in that object. Missing the target with a gun is more forgiving, You can pull the trigger again very quickly without changing your general position. Missing a target with a sword means having to move the weapon into a different position, Which gives the opponent with a gun more time to do damage.
Guns are easier to conceal. It's easier to move through complicated obstacles forests, Tight spaces with a gun since its not long and unwieldy like swords. Militaries only use the most effective weapons, And they give soldiers guns, Not swords.
I'm basing this all off my common sense, Facts, And logic, No bullshit. Second, Firearms were designed to replace the sword, You could consider it a successor. With almost any range beyond spitting distance, I fully believe any modern firearm would be able to dispatch any blade-wielding individual with 15 rounds of 9x19 Hollow point or whatever magazine or clip size you have.
Considering the average sword length is about 2' 7" and the length of one of the most common found handguns in the United States the Glock 19 is 7. Anything beyond a distance of I would say 10ft a sword would have almost no hope of defeating a gun-toting enemy considering John can draw his handgun three times as fast, Immediately start putting down fire with 15 potent 9x19 Hollow Points while Jane is likely still getting her sword out of the sheath while getting pumped full of lead, Even if Jane had been running at John with her Sword drawn John could just as easily draw his handgun while running and provide even semi-accurate shots on target.
All in all, A Handgun or really most firearms made past WW1 would in almost every scenario succeed versus a sword almost no matter what. It doesn't really matter how well-trained you are in your craft or if your sword was forged by the greatest blacksmith this side of Middle-Earth, a sniper can take you out from miles away in a split second. Guns are much faster than a sword. The gun has a much harder impact than the sword would have, the gun has range for long distance and the sword does not.
Also, the melee weapons are better able to price though though hides and armor, so they tend to be more useful to fight the local wildlife and heavy infantry. Guns are good for softening up targets from a distance and taking care of squishy unarmored humans. Otherwise, the advantage of Melee weapons is that they do more damage by increasing strength and close combat, where with ranged combat only the chance to hit is increased.
In the New World of Darkness , the advantages of each are highly situational, depending on the material of the weapon and the specific opponent out of the setting's Fantasy Kitchen Sink. A shotgun loaded with silver or Cold Iron can be devastating against a Werewolf or True Fae , but would only annoy a Vampire ; on the other hand, a trained spear fighter can tear a vampire a new one.
Also, as an Urban Fantasy setting, there's the matter of acquiring, licensing, and transporting your weapons, since Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs if you carry a zweihander or uzi down a busy street Warhammer 40, is all about charging the enemy before he can gun you down, or shooting him before he can reach you.
Though many units designed for close-combat use Sword and Gun as the rules make having a pistol and melee weapon the same as having two melee weapons for lots of melee weapon types except you can shoot with the pistol, combining two great tastes in one.
Video Games. In Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 , a ludicrously effective strategy is using Marathon for unlimited sprinting , Lightweight to move faster , and Commando which lets you stab enemies from a longer distance away - and use a pistol with a tactical knife attachment to stab faster.
Essentially, this lets you dash everywhere and stab everyone for a one-hit kill. Granted, if someone sees you coming, they can gun you down from a distance pretty easily, but ninja-ing your way through the maps is still quite effective. Marathon and Lightweight mean a player sprints all the time and so fast one can easily run straight at claymores—their explosion is delayed by a fraction of a second, enough for a runner to be in the safe zone when it blows up.
Even more ludicrous when said runner uses Commando to stab an enemy hiding behind the claymore While guns in Deus Ex are good weapons, halfway through the game you get a sword that OHKOs most enemies you meet and allows you to take on bots in close combat.
His Evil Twin Vergil sticks to his sword and only uses a gun in the final battle with Arkham. Fable II allows the protagonist to use both guns and swords and faces enemies that use both.
Both have advantages and disadvantages, but a character can theoretically use either exclusively. In the later Final Fantasy games, the two exist side by side, mostly due to Charles Atlas Superpowers as well as Magic being prominent.
Vincent uses a rather large pistol, while Cloud uses a BFS. Regular soldiers are seen wielding assault rifles, and heaver mechanized weapons do exist. Laguna uses an assault rifle and grenades, but his parter Kiros uses Katals. Squall's gunblade is just a sword that can detonate on impact for extra damage. Final Fantasy XII is where things get a little interesting.
The airships are armed with heavy machine guns, but for ground combat, swords and armor is the preferred method of fighting. The man-portable guns that do exist are of the Blunderbuss variety. Assault rifles are now the default weapons for armies, along with grenade launchers and the occasional baton. Lightning uses a weapon that converts between a gun and a sword, Snow punches things, and Sazh uses dual pistols that combine into a rifle.
Played straight in Gunz. Your character is equipped with guns and swords. Swords do more damage, can deflect bullets, and glitch up the game in advantageous ways. Guns are guns. All of the Halo games feature plasma-sword wielding Elites, alien commanders who charge into battle against gun-toting humans.
Multiplayer and campaign missions often see the gun vs sword debate play out literally, when the covenant plasma sword faces a human 8 gauge shotgun. There is even a multiplayer mode called infection dedicated to scatterguns or pistols vs swords. In Jade Empire , one of the characters you encounter is Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom the Magnificent Bastard voiced by John Cleese who keeps dueling people with his arquebus called Mirabelle and, of course, winning, since the people of the Jade Empire have never seen a firearm they assume it simply makes fireworks.
The player can challenge Sir Roderick and get his weapon after beating him. One of the styles available to the player is sword-fighting. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild , Link, while using a variety of weapons, is best known for his swordsmanship. One of the bosses is Windblight Ganon, who has an Arm Cannon. He later faces off against Ganon's physical form, who wields both a similar gun and a set of swords.
Metabee specializes in long-range weaponry including a rifle, sub machine-gun, and missile launcher , while Rokusho's signature weapon is a pair of scissors fashioned into a Blade Below the Shoulder. Mega Man : In the Mega Man Classic series, swords tend to do more damage per ammo cost than most ranged attacks to compensate for lack of range. Also, X v.
Zero in Mega Man X5. Whichever weapon comes out on top is decided by the player. Also referred to in Mega Man Battle Network. In Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny , you can have a competition with the gunfighter to see which is better: Your katana or his rifle, seeing who can kill the most enemies in a fixed period of time. Of course, this is a katana against a 16th century matchlock. In real life, the gunman would have only been able to shoot a handful of times in the timeframe involved.
Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth : The Phantom Thieves' first encounter with the Investigation Team has their leaders get into a brief scuffle, in which Yu wields his sword and Joker parries with his model gun. Joker's reasoning for using his gun instead of his dagger can be either for a bluff, to try and legitimately do damage, or forgetting that the cognitive aspect of the model gun doesn't work in the labyrinth. However, the neighboring Commonwealth of Esotre has made great strides in technology and alchemy, as their land is much harsher, and survival there requires innovation.
Thus, their front-line troops are Fusilier Linesmen armed with single-shot muskets. According to the in-game Codex, Fusiliers usually only get one shot per battle before they close with the enemy and fight hand-to-hand. Thus, their muskets have two bayonets attached to them. In the gameplay, however, they can fire every turn. Fusilier Militia are mostly melee troops, although they can use their Volley ability to fire their muskets every 3 turns. For the most part, Imperial troops do just as well with your typical Medieval weapons like swords, spears, and bows.
However, elite Sotran marksmen called Greyjacket Riflemen lower the defense rating of any enemy on a successful hit. In Resident Evil 4 , Leon and Ada have a flashy knife-to-gun fight. In the end, Leon gets the upper hand, disarms Ada and holds his knife to her throat. He lets up, though. In SoulCalibur , Mitsurugi's bio mentions that he lost a duel against a rifleman, and wants to find the Soul Edge because it's superior to any other weapon, including guns he also spent a good part of his time devising techniques against firearms.
Expanding on above example: Mitsurugi's ending in Soul Blade gives you a special, first-person-perspective fight against a soldier wielding an old, front-loaded rifle, dubbed 'Tanegashima' after the old Japanese word for firearms.
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