Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27425734-20170826213348/@comment-25936766-20180204213505

LMS616 wrote: 1) For design, well tastes differ,

2) Second yes the hammerheads are the cartridges, yes they have been strengthened, its miniaturised (fictional) military artillery in a mans' hands

3) the kind of enemies that recuire constant reloading aren't the ones you send a squad of soldiers at normally

4) admitted thats why the automatic ammo changer is partially there, aim the empty cartridge at the ground and drop it, turn the empty slot up and let it's weight slide it in place

5) third, please refer to the second picture where you will find named triggers

6) as for blocking with the barrel, its thicker then most of the blades we've seen,

7) it has to resist the explosive forces from within so it can certainly block forces from the outside as well.

8) As for the name I can find a lot af meaning in it, it sounds like leek a GREEN and WHITE vegetable.

9) Admiral is a navy rank -> ships, leaking ships remind me of the sea, even if you want to think dirty you can see a dark spot on someones pants if his small john leaks.

1) "Tastes differ" is irrelevant here. That would be the case if we were talking about color or name, but not when we're talking about the practicality of the design.

Huntsmen, and by extension Specialists, design their own weapons, so they can take a few liberties to suit their fighting style (and even then, the number of weapons in the show that have an outright-impractical design can be counted in one hand).

Soldiers? They don't, they use mass-produced stuff, and the weapons used by soldiers are designed with practicality in mind. If a weapon is impractical, it ceases to exist as soon as possible.

For example, pistolswords (yes, they were a thing). Too inaccurate to hit anything, too heavy to aim well or reload well, too unbalanced in weight to wield well, overall they were shitty guns and swords. No one ever used them as a result.

So, no, "tastes differ" is irrelevant in this case.

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2) What the weapon is changes nothing. Cartridges that double as hammer heads is a stupid design choice. Their shape hurts the hammer's effectiveness at hammering anything, and the weight that they need to be good hammer heads makes them a bigger pain than necesary to reload.

And here's the thing: How long it takes the average soldier to reload their gun, is always a matter of life and death, and often been a deciding factor in conflicts.

As for "fictional", it's not. The Ottomans had Abus Guns, esentially portable howitzers. And said Abus Guns were far more practical than this thing.

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3) "Constant reloading" is not the problem here, that depends more on the soldier and their gun.

The problem is, reloading speed. If the average soldier takes too long to reload their gun because of the cartridge/gun's design, it's a problem, a problem that can get them killed if they lose precious seconds in the middle of a fight.

4) If the cartridges are so heavy you can just drop one on their slot and they fit in perfectly without problems, they are horrible cartridges.

And if anything, their weight only means they are more likely to fall off if you ever try to switch to another cartridge with ammo of another element.

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5) That is the most horrendous, useless location for a trigger that I've seen in my entire life. The user's fingers need to practically be spaghetti to press it efficiently due to it's location.

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6) Thicker =/= good enough to block things.

Blades can block things (like other swords) well enough because of this thing called Pressure: Force divided by Area. The smaller the Area, the more concentrated the Force is, and thus more Pressure.

Making something thicker than a blade won't automatically make it a better choice for blocking, or even a good choice at all.

In this case, it's not a good choice at all. It's still the weapon's handle, nothing ever meant to block things with, and trying to do so is either not going to work at all at best, or outright break the weapon in 2 at worst.

And remember: Your weapon is a freaking war-hammer, more than a meter long, trying to position it in a way that you can block something is so hard it's a matter of luck at best, between the size and the unbalanced weight.

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7) That logic is bullshit, and here's why: How tough something's external surface is has nothing to do with how tough their internal surface is.

Guns internally are strong enough to handle a mini-explosion to fire the bullets. Now, what do you think will happen if your gun is hit by an outside explosion? It can break, the chances of not breaking are lower than a nearby rock not breaking.

Also, different kinds of forces. An explosion is different from, say, a hammer's blow, a sword's swing, a chainsaw, piercing attacks of various sorts, and so on. Your logic is basically "he can survive a cat's bite, obviously he can survive being hit by a car too".

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8) The Color Naming Rules are that the name is a color in some language, reminds of a color, or sounds like a color.

If your plan is for the name to allude to "Leek", then just call him John Leek. If people read "Leak", no one will think about Leek.

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9) I thought Admiral was just his position. If his actual name is Admiral, of all things, that's just dumb.