Trench Warfare

[Targan]

Originally Posted by Mohoender

Moreover, a mace or a battle axe is a scary weapon in close combat even when you are facing it with modern rifle. As Jester said, especially when you are taken by surprise.

My brother's PC in my current campaign is a 6'5", 230lb Samoan in the USMC Force Recon and he picked up a fireman's axe in the Armies of the Night segment of the campaign. In hand to hand he can easily weild it one handed and because the roots of Gunmaster lie in the mediaeval combat system Harnmaster the results of an axe strike are very, very ugly.

[jester]

There is a program on the history channel about Arms and Action where some Brit dude has amatuers using weapons of a specific period. And most of the time they deal with melee weapons sometimes firearms, what I have learned from that program is alot of such weapons are hard to control. The big axes and morning stars in particular.

I am thinking three weapons will come to prominance,

Maces

Hand Axes

Cutlasses would come into vogue, or similiar short swords, or long dirks

Since all are cheap to make, easily controlled and carried and effective even for those who are not overly skilled.

[headquarters]

Originally Posted by jester

There is a program on the history channel about Arms and Action where some Brit dude has amatuers using weapons of a specific period. And most of the time they deal with melee weapons sometimes firearms, what I have learned from that program is alot of such weapons are hard to control. The big axes and morning stars in particular.

I am thinking three weapons will come to prominance,

Maces

Hand Axes

Cutlasses would come into vogue, or similiar short swords, or long dirks

Since all are cheap to make, easily controlled and carried and effective even for those who are not overly skilled.

spears ?

easy to make ,and easy to learn people the basics .

otherwise I am totally onboard with your analyzis.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by headquarters

spears ?

Absolutely. Harnmaster/Gunmaster treats rifles with bayonets fixed as spears so all soldiers that have had bayonet training effectively have spear skill in my campaign.

It's been a long time since there has been a bayonet charge in any of my campaigns but there was an excellent instance of bayonet fighting in my awesome Gunmaster T2K one-off years ago. I had 10 players for this one 24 hour session and the PCs made up a French Foreign Legion long range foot patrol on the Iran-Iraq border. They ended up being chased by Hind-mobile Spetznaz and were wiped out to the last man in a heroic last stand at a rocky outcrop in a valley full of scrub. Really good game.

[Mohoender]

Originally Posted by Targan

Absolutely. Harnmaster/Gunmaster treats rifles with bayonets fixed as spears so all soldiers that have had bayonet training effectively have spear skill in my campaign.

It's been a long time since there has been a bayonet charge in any of my campaigns but there was an excellent instance of bayonet fighting in my awesome Gunmaster T2K one-off years ago. I had 10 players for this one 24 hour session and the PCs made up a French Foreign Legion long range foot patrol on the Iran-Iraq border. They ended up being chased by Hind-mobile Spetznaz and were wiped out to the last man in a heroic last stand at a rocky outcrop in a valley full of scrub. Really good game.

So your PCs had their own little Cameron (nice) .

[jester]

I was going to add spears, actualy pikes....but I was meaning for up close and personal hand to hand combat inside trenches., a spear is a bit long for use inside a narrow trench. I was also thinking of something to supliment a firearm or other primary weapon.