Straight longsword: Western knight.

>>2561812
Exalted?

Now listen, see, this here's my town, see, nyah.

Rapier is probably a fast, dodging fighter-type.
Cutlass for Pirates.
Sabre, sort of sits between the two, a sort of fat blade for hacking as a "agile" pirate fighter

>>2561817
I think Contra actually

Unadorned staffs: probably for weary travelling "strangers" (e.g. ramshackle wizards/hermits who walk into town on foot)

>>2561812
is dat sum Contra?

>>2561863
adorned staffs, possibly gnarled or tipped with a jewel, or even curved at the tip and holding a gem in the middle with magic: Caster types. The Staff Chick. Mages. Wizards.

Maces: Holy men. Clerics. Because God hates when you draw blood. But it's okay to crush bone.

Interesting and original topic is interesting and original.

rolled 18 = 18

Whips: for the archaeologist types or (less common) the vampire hunters.

>>2561889
Or general evil/domineering sorts--slavers, necromancers, etc. Lots of badguys with whips.

Bow and Arrow: Either a naturey Ranger(Indians and woodsmen) or someone that doesn't want to be heard, but still wants to be able to kill people from afar.

Bare Hands: Brawler types, the guy that gets into bar fights and knows how to handle himself in those situations. Alternatively, a Jackie Chan wannabe.

Biillyclub: Police officer.

Bare hand fighters are more likely to be scarred/bearded Gar/russian-bear pub-brawlers/bare-knuckle pit-fighters than "kung fu mystical powers monk!"

Large two-handed swords: the Scottish.
Dual-weildan daggers: Light armor clad comic relief
Staff: guys with purple bandanas(seriously...all ninja turtle weapons only seem to fit with the turtles to me)

>>2561917
Not that there's anything wrong with the latter.

One handed single edged swords - Duelists, a sport fighter, either in honor duels or in the pits. Deflects and parries blows, rather than block it with armor

One handed double edged swords - Sword and Board crusades type. Fights as part of a regiment, the army-man.

Two handed, single edges swords (aka, the Katana) - quick, agile fighter, all-or-nothing blows. weeaboo feel.

Two handed, double edged swords (aka, Claymore) - brutal and kind of sluggish. Sort of a wildman/Celt feel.

Single sided axe - woodsman, his weapon is a tool as well. Rugged. Fewer strokes are better

Double sided axe - stocky fighter who swing in a flurry of blood. Cleaves through the competition, literally.

Club/Mace - BONK. Not a militant character, likely a priest or mage that knows how to swing.

Sledge/Warhammer - Brute, like the 2H2E sword, but taken further. One blow, one kill. Likely a mountain of a man.

>>2561924 Dual-weildan daggers: Light armor clad comic relief
"Actually, my full name is Will Scarlett O'Hara. We're from Georgia."

Rapier: That asshole that always seems to want to insult you while he fights with you, even going so far as to intentionally toy with you with a lot of superficial injuries before making a killing blow. Seriously. Fuck rapier-users.

Chainsaw: Any horror setting character

>>2561938
exarctly...shit. Now I have to go watch that.

>>2561917
Is that Bret "The Hitman" Hart?

You're all forgetting an important weapon.

Improvised Weapons: MacGuyver.

>>2561971

BRET HIIIIITTTMAAAAAAAAAN HART!! is not african

The Swordcane - Classy fancy guy

ALLAH DURKA DURKA JIHAD

>>2561990

The regular cane - Not just classy, but also a guy with a trip attack.

Whip: Slinky thiefy woman/androgynous male rogue/ranger.
Mace: Priest; it's been mentioned, but I'd like to emphasize that clergymen on the battlefield historically wielded blunt weapons to prevent shedding blood.
Flail: Evil knights.
Polearms, spears, halberds: 'Generic' cool is to depict them as battlefield fodder. Would probably be more generic 'cool' as warriors with less-than-plate armor valuing precise strikes.
Meteor Hammer: Neurotic or psychotic characters; weaboo bait.
Quarterstaff: Gamblers, ruffians.

I'd probably say a single pistol is a good weapon to mix with a bare-hand melee for an agile fighter. Sort of grab&throw, before shooting them point-blank in the head or something.

Oh, a shotguns for zombie-hunters or vigilante gang-busters (good for crowd-control if you can knock a target out the window from range).

Crossbow: Mercenary. Kinda the fantasy/medieval equivalent of the assault-rifle guy.
Repeating Crossbow: as above, or alternatively some kind of "weapons expert", a la Dragonlance gnomes with a bent for dreaming up new and crazy ways to kill people. Also lends a sort of steampunky flair, in my opinion.

>>2561971
From Eve-Online, brutor(niggers or hueg white guyz) were enslaved by the religious nuts and got free when they picked a fight with the wrong people

Minmatar ships look pretty fucking ugly 90% of the time, but use some of the highest damaging weapons (lowest energy cost too) in the game (artillery has a hueg fucking range, a rediculous damage modifier, but tracks like shit).

Former eve-player here, shutting the fuck up.

>>2561851
The saber was a cavalry weapon originally, the curved blade helps distribute the greater impact imparted by the horse, so it doesn't jar the wielder's arm (or damage the blade) as much. Generally it was associated with light cavalrymen at the beginning of the 19th century while heavy cavalry often still used a straight bladed sword.

It is spelled "weeaboo".

spears, maybe Celtic stuff

Shotguns: The loyal butler with SAS training.

>>2561851
source on the pic?

>>2562190

>>2562249

Fuck yeah!

>>2562254
Etrian Odessey NDS /v/ game

>>2562121
I guarantee you that history's first sabers were not used by cavalry. Only time I've heard of cavalry using sabers is when muskets were already the main battle weapon.

Scimitar: An exotic swordsman that uses flowing slashes.

spears are tribal

tridents for gladiators

short swords for Roman legions

>>2561917
And half the time, all the horrible dirty tricks they've picked up makes them quite capable of breaking the monk in half.

Zweihaender, Katzbalger - Landsknecht, Renaissance Mercenary

Luger P08, Mauser C96: Nazis

>>2561954

fuck yeah!

>>2562272
>history's first sabers were not used by cavalry.
Provide some credible proof for such a bold statement.

Large caliber Revolver: Dirty Harry-esque Anti-Hero.

>>2562267
>>2562254

It's Etrian Odyssey only by the outfits, the people wearing them come from Sayonara Zetsubō Sensei, which is a fairly decent anime

I'd say that thanks to Troy spear-and-shield is pretty firmly entrenched in the public consciousness as a Greek thing. As it should be.

>>2561785
>Katana: Weaboo Samuri
...
You say this like a samurai would wield any other kind of weapon, thus being a dividing line between non-weeaboo samurai and weeaboo samurai.

Seeing as how most on /tg/ have accepted the samurai concept as being incurably weeaboo on it's own, it's kind of redundant to call it a "Weeaboo Samurai"

Like saying "Soda pop"

>>2562272
You make my head hurt.

For the master of seriously fucking your day up.

Projectile Vomiting(tm).

>>2562453
Because no samurai uses a spear, bow, or any sword besides a katana ever, right?

>>2562484
Right.

>>2562484
You think that's all they carry?

Thread necromancer, AWAAAAYYYY!

Also. Words. For example, I know a combination of words that can make you all go absolutely insane.

Spears: Vikings, Samurai, Celts and Romans.

Historical fact: spears were among the first weapons ever created, and although vikings are stereotypically seen as axe/sword users, they used swords and axes as a sidearm, when the fighting was too close for spear work. Likewise samurai.

>>2562920
Keep in mind that the way samurai fought evolved in a way unlike that of pretty much any other fighter in history. There were others that changed to fit the times, of course, but none as drastically as the samurai. In fact pretty

rolled 4 = 4

Ctrl+F Machete

No matches found.

Lame /tg/

>>2562920
Everything I've read states that clubs and simple projectiles (stones) were weaponized first, for self-defense from big cats and other nasty carnivores. Spears and very crude axes came after. A spear is better for hunting/murder/war than defense.

Just clarifying your point, not contesting it.

Scythe - Death
Sickle - Commies!

>>2563269

Then why don't you suggest one?

Machetes - Columbian drug lords, general Latin America/Spanish knife, Australia

Harsh Language: Drill sergeants.

>>2563496
I approve of this.

Lever action rifle: Rough riding lawman
M1A super match with 20 round mag: Awesome zombie apocalypse character
Cloak lined with derringers: Insurance agent
Really long katana: Emo science experiments

Bow = On foot, longbowmen, on horseback, mongols/huns.

>>2562920

Quite frankly the vast majority of armies used spears as primary weaponry.

Amongst organized professional armies, I think only the Romans and possibly a Chinese Dynasty's army wielded swords as their exclusive primary arm. The only others to do so are irregular fighting forces like Celts, Iberians, Ethiopians/Sudanese, ect.

In an irregular force, be it barbarians or a feudal army, you would get men who wielded whatever they really wanted or had, but axes or swords or maces in most armies were the sidearm to take out once you put aside or lost or used up your bow, lance, or spear.

>>2563622

Oh fuck not this shit again

>>2561979

Improvised weapons, also: zombie killers.

This notebook has saved my life more times than I care to count.

Flails - Gnolls, dunno why.

Now, historically:
Broad swords - Poor metal -> thick blades -> hack and slash
Slender swords - Better stronger steel -> lighter blades -> more finesse. You could actually, GASP, parry!

quarterstaffs - monks
kama (asian sickle)- ninja's (cause they were often poor farmers, or wanted to look like farmers)

>>2563900
Broad swords tended to be made of fairly high quality metal.
Weighed less than five pounds, Russian style of combat relied on their ability to parry

Flails - Gnolls, dunno why.

Now, historically:
Broad swords - Poor metal -> thick blades -> hack and slash
Slender swords - Better stronger steel -> lighter blades -> more finesse. You could actually, GASP, parry!

quarterstaffs - monks
kama (asian sickle)- ninja's (cause they were often poor farmers, or wanted to look like farmers)

>>2561930

The axe thing is funny, because it's totally backwards yet every pulp fantasy hack does it that way.

Double headed axes are a woodsmans tool, single headed are a weapon. Same kind of thing for hammers - big ones are for hitting railway sleepers, small ones for hitting people.

>>2561785
>Katana: Weaboo Samuri (or generic weaboo warrior)
Way to go not knowing what the fuck weeaboo means. I am SICK of people misusing this, shit.

Spear + shield = SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

>>2565429

In reality, spear + shield was the default all over the world for the normal fighting types. Sparta was just one of the best disciplined and skilled forces to use this combo.

Ak-74: Cool for everyonr from caveman to modern man in suit.

>>2565467
Probably THE best, actually. They don't make people like that anymore. Mainly because it's considered abuse.

>>2565496
Hard to say. Brutal discipline probably reached its apex during the Frederickian era, although men beaten and lashed into functioning like perfect, flawless automata may still not compare to those who are raised since birth for war and little else.

>>2565504
After someone mentioned overstuffed orphanages in another thread, I had an idea. Why not use all the orphan children as Spartans? Chuck them into the wild somewhere and make raise them that way. Instant army.

>>2565513
Modern sensibilities would cry so fucking hard.

>>2563943
well, the thread theme was what weapons evoke what kind of characters in cool ways. Maybe I am wrong in the facts, but thats just how I've been exposed to and -feel- when given the imagery of a given weapon.

Also, we need more... esoteric weapons.

Katar: fluid motion, almost dancer-esque/drunken fist fighter.

Bayonette(pardon my spelling) firearms: Steampunk or Gunpowderpunk (or even historically accurate) uniformed soldiers.

Brass Knuckles: Street Brawler. Dirty fighter.

Flintlock Pistol - Could be either historically accurate and used in most duels and for officers in armies or romanticized and made into an awesome steampunky sidearm.

>>2565651
>Katar: fluid motion, almost dancer-esque/drunken fist fighter.

Wouldn't katars require more 'abrupt' motions, since a lot of them were just punching daggers?

>>2562272
Scimitars, fachions, and kukri's are usually seen in arabian settings.

>>2565504
Modern warfare being what it is (very fast paced), soldiers have to be able to adapt and think for themselves rather than running on rails, so to speak. Beating them into automata could make them fearless, but not necessarily as useful.

>>2565513
Foster care children often have serious behavioral issues if they've been bounced from home to home, the last thing you want to do is take someone with criminal proclivities and turn him into a badass hoplite.

>>2561889
I'm pretty sure the ONLY instance of a vampire hunter using a whip is castlevania. Disregarding niche or wanna-be internet artists/comics, of course.

Similar for treasure hunters, that there is only one instance: indiana jones.

If anything, whips seem to be a common element of supporting female villains from the late 70's to maybe the mid 90's.

>>2563900
There's two kinds of flails: The morning star kind with a ball and chain, and a seperate kind made of two wooden sticks. The latter is popular among egyptian settings, as they were used by farmers to seperate grain from husks, and as a symbol for the mighty pharaohs. The former I guess is just another take on a medieval weapon, for soldiers and the like.

>>2565767
Yo. Morningstars are spiked maces. Not flails at all.
THE MORE YOU KNOW.

>>2565958
Yeah, WotC decided to call ball-headed flails Morningstars because it's easier to differentiate that way. Or just because they're dumb. I know at least in NWN that Morningstars have both piercing and bludgeoning damage, which is stupid.

>>2565767
>two wooden sticks
>flail

Erm....

>>2565958
Morningstars are those spiked balls. They can be attached to a mace or to a flail.

>>2565972
http://www.harvestofhistory.org/assets/object-images/main/Thrashing-03.jpg
Because my work wireless won't transmit a 28K image.

>>2565972

He's right. They were grain threshers, and then reinforced with metal sides and bumps to provide farmers and peasants with weapons.

Two pistols = John woo. Professional Cleaners. People trying to be 'cool' who don't realise how horribly inaccurate akimbo pistols are.

Claws of any kind = Predator wannabe. Alternately, FUCK YEAH VEGA.

flamer: over-sensitive nutjob (laughing insanely while burning down an enemy base one room at a time) / pyromaniac

>>2566593
holy fuck, yukari-pyro! i've onyl ever seen the ones of tomo as a scout and osaka as a spy (with kamineko mask)

>Katana: Weaboo Samuri (or generic weaboo warrior)
When I said Weeaboo Samuri I actually meant that, I see Katanas more as a weapon carried by weeaboos dressing up as samuri than actual Samuri. I don't think it's as important for an actual Samuri to carry a specific weapon.

>>2565496

Enter Sacred Band of Thebes, SUPER GAYS that owned the shit ouf of Spartan hoplites in even-number field battles. Bonding through anal sex provides superior soldiers.

>>2566679
\but spartans did the same thing

>>2566642
>Samuri

>>2566608
You got those two? Post them please?

>>2566642
Real manly samurais carry a katana, back-up blade and a bow and seppuku.

>>2566679
>>Bonding through anal sex provides superior butthurt.

Fixed.

Sonic Screwdriver = The Doctor

"Laser screwdriver. Who'd have sonic?"

SM or CSM

guitar: rock-out dude

>>2566906

bump

>>2561889
>>2561895

An evil girl's weapon.