KEY ENEMIES UPDATED (8/1/13)

[Skies]

Anyone else cringe when reading all of the new blurbs about Gaius Van Baelsar's lackeys? Gunbaghnakhs? Seriously!?

Sorry, I was too hung up on the fact that Livia is Gaius's daugther to actually notice the name.
And for what it's worth Gaius ALSO wears a similar weapon, his left gauntlet too has a gun on it (during the Futures Perfect cutscene Papalymo shields the party from exactly that shot by absorbing it, it is apparently an energy-charged shot). The difference is that she uses such a gauntlet on both hands...
Given her weapon is not a Bagh Nakh in any way, those are claws, essentially, whereas she uses arm blades... So I guess they ran out of names.

Still loving the cannon-shields, however. Heavens, that roegadyn is a veritable mech

[Beowolf]

agreed, the tartarus is probably the coolest of the 5 so far (well 4 bradamante may well be lost forever thanks to hildaderp.)

[Ferth]

I really appreciate it!

We already had the Gunblade and Gunhalberd as Garlean weapons in version 1.x, so I'm glad they keep this idea for the other generals.

Remember that the Garlean Empire is very advanced in machina builds, so it makes perfect sense to me.

Sorry... I could maybe be convinced about the validity of the gun halberd... and possibly about the gun shield, too... But gunbaghnakhs? Someone isn't trying hard enough.

[Lucke]

Gunblade, Gunhalberd, Gunhammer, Gunbaghnakhs, Gunshield ..... still no Gunsubligar

You can make your own y'know?



I shall call it The Gunderpants

[Wolfandre]

The Gunderpants

[Lusavari]

Let's assume this is how they work...

[Anonymoose]

Sorry... I could maybe be convinced about the validity of the gun halberd... and possibly about the gun shield, too... But gunbaghnakhs? Someone isn't trying hard enough.

Allow me to attempt to convince you.

Your weapon of choice is your fists. Your arms are of equal weight, allowing you to dispatch with counter-weighted armor and constant recalibration of balance and momentum. This makes you agile, and to enhance that agility, the blunt impacts usually provided by fists has been converted into slashing impact by blades, or claws, upon the fists - otherwise known as "tiger claws," or bagh nakh in Hindi.

These are your strengths - but your weakness is that you are limited to melee combat; you cannot interrupt a charging enemy's momentum; you cannot scatter an approaching group; you cannot launch a ranged or surprise attack... unless each of your wrists were armed with a gun. No time is wasted on the prep or the draw, you point and fire.

If an enemy group is charging you in formation, automatic fire from both hands breaks their form and momentum, allowing you to slip between the defensively dodging enemies and dispatch them with martial prowess. If you are facing a larger or heavily armored enemy, you can disorient them and break weak points with fire before delivering a volley of blows to their Achilles heel.

Not to mention nobody's going to see it coming when they catch one to the head from across the field or castrum from the seemingly unarmed. Not trying hard enough? They'd be my weapon of choice!

The only weapon that'd be pretty stupid is a gunbow.

So you can shoot while you shoot.

[ArkhamNative]

I should request a goofy pic from Nique of Nero wielding his "Mjollnir".

There's probably a good "yo dawg ... so I put a Mjollnir in your Mjolnir so you can ..." in there, at least.

Edit: "... so you can bang while you bang!" ? (BLM+hammer)? Ah, comedy, you elusive sylph.

[Lusavari]

I don't know Moose... I would argue the Gunbow is an amazing idea... I think the point at which it gets silly is the Gunpole for fishers.

[Beowolf]

Allow me to attempt to convince you.

Your weapon of choice is your fists. Your arms are of equal weight, allowing you to dispatch with counter-weighted armor and constant recalibration of balance and momentum. This makes you agile, and to enhance that agility, the blunt impacts usually provided by fists has been converted into slashing impact by blades, or claws, upon the fists - otherwise known as "tiger claws," or bagh nakh in Hindi.

These are your strengths - but your weakness is that you are limited to melee combat; you cannot interrupt a charging enemy's momentum; you cannot scatter an approaching group; you cannot launch a ranged or surprise attack... unless each of your wrists were armed with a gun. No time is wasted on the prep or the draw, you point and fire.

If an enemy group is charging you in formation, automatic fire from both hands breaks their form and momentum, allowing you to slip between the defensively dodging enemies and dispatch them with martial prowess. If you are facing a larger or heavily armored enemy, you can disorient them and break weak points with fire before delivering a volley of blows to their Achilles heel.

Not to mention nobody's going to see it coming when they catch one to the head from across the field or castrum from the seemingly unarmed. Not trying hard enough? They'd be my weapon of choice!

The only weapon that'd be pretty stupid is a gunbow.

So you can shoot while you shoot.

i'd be more afraid of the point blank range implications. thinkin back to FFVIII squals shear trigger timing on impact...she might very well be able to rip a tank to shreds. the initial impact, gunshot, then reverberation of the claw tearing you a new one. whew.