The Best Weapon Against Giant Monsters?
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- Опубликовано: 29 июн 2017
- In video games like Monster Hunter the heroes run around with gigantic spiky sword things, and in general the "bigger is better" theme is strong in fantasy.
But is it actually big enough to defeat something like a giant dragon...?
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Interesting how I managed to deeply offend some Monster Hunter fans when the video isn't even about MH in particular. :)
The idea of fighting gigantic monsters with oversized swords and whatnot is a very common fantasy trope. Even though MH requires strategic fighting, plenty of other games go by the formula of "bigger is better, just hit 'em hard". And you've got to admit, charging a mountain of muscle, horns, scales, and claws with a melee weapon just doesn't seem as strategic as hammering them with giant ballista bolts from a distance.
I wasn't even offended or anything it's just the fact that the one game there was a picture of in the beginning uses those tactics such as pitfalls and strategies to play the game not just running in.
I am a Monster Hunter fan and this video made absolutely nothing but a whole lot of sense. Nice job man ! I do hope you give it a shot when world comes out even if fantasy is silly in some regards its a very fun game ! Keep the content coming man ! really enjoying the recent ones !
Skallagrim 😂
whiney baby's in their mommas basement , got nothing better to do
Automatic hand-held ballistas are akchully practical! I swear! You just have to be strong enough to barely use it when you could use another weapon!
All you need when fighting beasts:
1. A Hobbit
2. A rock
3. 2nd breakfast
Fucking A
Don’t forget elevenses, very important.
What is the reference in no.2?
hobbit are good at throwing stones.
dont forget 11'zs
You forgot the psychological effect it has on monsters to swing weapons made out of their parents at em
I d-don't think they c-care
@@tsulashyfox8588 are you seriously role playing as shy on a RUclips comment section
M Sharmall Yesh
Leave it to the furries
I really don't think monsters are smart enough or empathetic enough to experience significant psychological damage
"If there were monsters to defeat in real life, what weapon would you want?"
Artillery. You want artillery.
cruise missiles.
Or a helicopter
depends if magic existed or not...... but if not then.
the monster slayer games use monster materials to make weapons so why not just use that same tactic to make bigger badder ranged weapons instead of getting up close. btw artilery and missles arn't very practical simply cause of deployment times.
@@drakemasta9655 What about good ol' shoulder mounted sta missiles?
Quick to deploy, relatively cheap...
Or, if that doesn't help, go a step further and deploy Davy Crocket like nuclear grenade launchers
That would be my weapon of choice for any large enemy monster/mecha/alien invasion.
Unless it entails some 'magic' armor that can't be touched by a literal nuclear explosion in it's center, that is. In that case use magic explodium.
The key is: the destruction of enemy equipment has to be way cheaper than the equipment destroyed.
@@drakemasta9655
Motars and recoiless rifles are pretty man-portable.
Geralt pulls out a 22 magnum.
"What...what are you doing!?"
"Killing monsters."
“How do you like that silver?”
...but why .22? You could have at least bother with 9mm if .45 or .357 is too much!
@@samuelmendoza9356 Bro, its just a joke...
Lol a 22 magnum is not a very large round. Of course .22 lr and .22 magnum are very deadly, but you wouldn't use it on a monster.
@@nickcobb865 22 Magnum fast as fucc boi, also 22 Is unlikely to kill a human from 522 teet to The head.
"At that point, they might just as well walk up to the monster, rip it's leg off and beat it to death with it."
*laughs in doomslayer*
Actually that's almost a word for word execution in gears of war, swapping "leg" with "arm"
I was scrolling through comments and listening to the video, and that part played just as I got to this one
The Last Giant in Dark Souls II rips off its own arm to try to kill you.
As someone who ended Monster Hunters with daggers,
this is very usefull tactic
*RIP AND TEAR!!!*
"Might as well tear its leg off and beat them with it?" Beowulf likes this idea.
RPG incorporated Doomguy liked this.
I like this idea
We talkin bout mah boi Beowulf (Skullgirls)?
An impending fist fight with a terrifying giant is no reason not to party (In fact it was specifically a reason to party)
Floofy Panda Wolf you and your osp reference
Skallagrim: "...Some people are monsters..."
Geralt Of Rivia: "Hmm... i like that guy"
Fun fact: "How to train your dragon" movies seem to follow this guide. There were axes, blunt weapons, polearms, nets and traps, crossbows and catapults and some truly bizzare inventions. And know what? It worked!
@Large Idiot Child :D
@Large Idiot Child they could make a movie where anything they try just doesnt work
@Large Idiot Child ur name is all
@Large Idiot Child where can i watch it? I cant seem to find "It worked" (2020) on imdb
Of course, the thing that proved best for fighting the dragons was the dragons themselves. So, I say in a fantasy setting with powerful monsters, find a way to tame some of them and use those for defending yourself.
"..Strongest crossbow you can build."
*picture of Joerg*
Inquisitor Cornelius and slingshot*
Laughs in joerg HAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA
Yeah... I think that's just a giant slingshot... That fires arrows...
@@hypothalapotamus5293 u dont know what joerg can do bitch
@@Mhmdalyban Yeah. I do. A giant slingshot that fires spears is probably just barely on the top 5 scariest things he has made.
A magical Katana crafted by 3 monks on the highest peak of the mountain.
Not only did your name bring me joy, your profile picture had me smirking and laughing for like 5 minutes.
@Krok Krok no, its too easy. Best weapon aganist giant monsters is a "Mythical Four-Handed Supersharp Hammer of Belligerent Justise", but to craft only pomel you need to cross "Superdeep River of Greedy Flame" and defeat "Risen Pomelcrafter of Ancient Peaks" so its too hard.
wielded by a 8 year old looking girl who apparently has 40000000 years old.
*Three gods in space
And given to a foolish samurai.
Katana Crafted by 7 lehendary dwarf, at eclipse in the highest peak, with tears from a goddes.
He obviously doesn't know about rolling i-frames
*dark souls 2 adp intensifies*
*Evade Extender 5 intensifies*
"If there were monsters to defeat in real life what weapon wod you want?"
... A gun?
A big gun. I'm thinking at least 12 guage slugs minimum if we are talking commonly available civilian weapons. Depending on the shotgun chosen, 5-8 slugs per man in the gun is a pretty good way to start off the hunt.
Dauntles's Ostian repeaters wants to speak with you.
@@corymoon2439 i think the best usable gun Option whould be a elephant Gun or a 2-bore shotgun
@@waldmeister1544 I was thinking of commonly available firearms. By all means I'm sure .50 machineguns, grenades, armored vehicles, and artillery would probably be the best option but how commonly available are they to non professional military forces? Civil wars aside.
@@corymoon2439 well, a 2-Bore bullstopping shotgun is realy realy rare nowadays and incredibly expensive ≈around 1 Million dollars maybe?
But how rare and expensive an elephant Gun is...i have no idea
But i think they are both incredibly rare to the point that a 2-Bore shotgun is considered a holy grail between collectors
a gun
a really big gun
dakota fields - Kinetic strike platform from space.
So Heavy Bowgun loaded with Cluster Bomb munitions
dakota fields like.... a gun-hammer?
There's a hammer in-game that looks like a gun
gunlance for sure, its like an oversized bang stick for an oversized alligator
"Might as well tear its leg off and beat em with it" i mean that's basically what they do, they just sharpen the bone into a pointy end first....
Xdddd
I mean, have you seen a lot of the hammers in minster hunter
@@RichardULong everyone is perfectly sharpened
You gotta admit we Hunter love sharpness, thats why we even sharpen our blunt hammers.
With the wet end?
According to this video, Thor might actually know what he's doing. He fits all the physical requirements, his hammer takes advantage of his humongous strength, can be thrown even faster than any siege weapon and yet it is practical and portable. Damn.
And ther is the hole lightning aspekt to
And hes ya know... a god
Jorge Sprave is the only man on Earth who could actually hold his own with a dragon.
And any guy with a gun
@@appa609 not any guy can show you its features.
@@appa609
considering that you need something like a four bore rifle to reliably kill a rhino or an elephant before it gets to you, killing something that is even bigger, faster and capable of flight with most guns simply isn't gonna happen. without a proper machine gun with anti air sights, most you'll do is piss it off, if you hit it at all before the dragon toasts your ass.
Windhelm Guard That's based on hunting notions of safety and ethics. If this is treated as war and we accept risks to humans then it's not really that hard. A dragon is a huge target. You need a squad with .308's to bring it down. On the ground it's one well placed shot.
And the guy who shot down a plane using a tank.
"Some people are monsters, but let's leave it at that."
Super deep, man.
ur mum is monstwer lol egs dee
"The silver one is for monsters. The steel one is for people who are monsters"
battle trained mice to crawl up its urethra and destroy it from the inside
a suicide bomb mouse!
A jihad mouse?
Smart
Indoctrinated house mice, strapped with explosive and willing to go to Mouse Heaven. THAT is dangerous weapon!
for the nouseland!
Any weapon is fine as long as you get the 1d6 sneak attack
Lol
I see youre a rogue of culture as well.....
I would like to smite the rogue
Except anything that’s not a finesse or ranged weapon
When you have to fight the dragon
Others : "here, take your magic sword"
Dark Souls player : "here's your dagger"
Zweihander casul
You use your fists, what are u, casul?
@Kama & Kunai only played ds1 but killing bosses and enemies which are essential to kill consumes a hell lotta time like i tried to kill asylum demon with bare fists took me like 10-15 mins to kill the tutorial boss.
I wanna do a fist only run but of course with cestus or some fist weapon or it's gonna be boring evading every attack and get 1 to 3 hits that do like 2 dmg.
Dark Souls 2 Player: *Draws Ladle*
@@zynx1828 What ringz do u got bicth?
How to kill a giant monster
Step 1: Become a giant monster
Step 2: Fight other giant monster
That easy huh? Hang on, lemme get my ritual chalk.
SHINZOU SASAGEYO
This sounds like a fetish.
Attack on Titan in a nutshell. Also, I found another person with the same name! Pretty rare name if you ask me.
Grayson A I got u fam! #graynation
A trebuchet. Throwing the giant pommel from a giant sword. Two memes combined into one cannot be stopped.
John Doe
... Wait, trebuchets were a meme?
0.0
knowyourmeme.com/memes/trebuchets
John Doe
My life has become a little bit more... SOMETHING after learning this. I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
Thank you.
What, launching a 90kg pommel 300 metres to end the monster rightly?
Well if you also count the giant sword as 'the rule of cool', then it's technically 3 memes.
Against a skyrim dragon, going for the throat would be a good strategy. In the game's lore, they use their voice to breathe fire, and you wouldn't be able to talk if a huge axe was swung into your throat.
The problem is that you wouldn't be allowed to do it because the dragon's throat is protected by a head with a mouth full of really big sharp tooths and that spits fire to you. I would try to hit the dragon's eyes with a long spear to make him become blind before try to kill him.
Thats the reason the tactics we had in skyrim to killing dragons the realistic ways.
3 person is nesscasary, 1 mage, 1 axe wielder and 1 wards user.
Mage will destroy the wings of the dragon to bring it down, ward will protect the axe guy so that he can cut the dragon's throat.
if the dragon is not mentally retarded to make the game playable, you're not beating it, not with the resources available to an unmoded skyrim character.
all the dragon has to do is to circle out of range, come down to breathe fire at you, and then get back out of range.
lore wise you might have a chance if you know a telvanni wizard who can cast a levitation spell on you that is strong enough for you to chase the dragon and lasts long enough to kill it before the effect wears off and you die from fall damage.
Windhelm Guard dragonrend to force it to land, then do all the above
@@diobrando9842 dragonrend only works because skyrim dragons are retarded getting too close and hovering in place. the spell is too slow to hit a dragon who is fighting intelligently.
Best melee weapon (if distance weapons like ballistas are not available) for fighting huge monsters without superpowers is: A very long pike.
Do the braveheart vs. cavalry move.
1. Provoke the monster to charge at you
2. Put the back of the pike in the ground point towards the monster and wait for the charge
3. Let the monster spear itself and hope you will not get buried under it
4. Maybe: Profit.
This could work because you don´t need to have superpowers and use the power of the monster against itself.
To be honest, this will not work against HUGE monsters (like the monster in Cloverfield) and gives only minimal chances of survival against something of t-rex size, but it seems to be the only chance you got, when confronted with a monster, when you are alone and have no ranged weapons available.
good sir, i won't be in a line waiting for large monster to charge at me even if i have a very long pike. the mass of those monster will be enough to snap the pike and stomp me like an ant. Example of that monster irl is war elephant. but it would work if i put some flame on a pikehead to scare it, after all animal scare of fire.
@@am8776 The speed of the monster would drive the pike through him. Pikes/spears are very good against fast, heavy ennemies thanks to their narrow tip. And the lenght of a pike would allow you to actually damage vital organs instead of slashing uselessly at skin and muscles.
Additionally, shorter spears in the 2-3 meter range would be good for more offensive actions. It's all about the penetration when you fight a house sized killing machine.
Make the beast follow you into a narrow space where it doesn't fit, then just keep stabbing it with a spear
omg u will break your arms
Giant sword=giant pommel
END them rightly
all you need now is a contraption to fling the 90kg giant pommel at a distance of 300m
Trebuchets, obviously
U will Never know me Just throw the damn pommel at it. That’ll teach the beastie.
You just throw it with the might of Zeus!
"Why do they use swords?"
Because we need to get the rare materials from those tails. Those Brachy Palliums ain't gonna farm themselves!
2:41
“because monsters generally don't use swords”
Glavenus is heating up his tail…
Because even my axe becomes a sword!
"That sword is way too small to kill a dinosaur, you aren't strong enough to get through its hide."
"How about an ENORMOUS sword?"
"Well if you were strong enough to USE that, the regular weapon would work..."
"Well, now my heart is set on using this massive sword, so..."
there's swords like falchions (the cleaver falchion, to name one). it's designed for deep cuts.
all you have to do is to train; develop stronger muscles. the cuts will be deep.
sharpness 5 diamond sword.
fight me
Oh Well. Okay.
Stacked totems of undying in left hand
*Tinker Construct aluminite clever with 26 attack damage, fire aspect, life steal, auto-repair.*
What did you just say ?
@@onebottleofwater9487 lol you have to use mods, gtfo. I bet you can't even do 2 star mania
@@thepope2412 I don't play mania.
And also, why do you have to be aggressive ?
@@onebottleofwater9487 it's called banter
The best way to kill a giant creature, say, a dragon is clearly some Peasants. And by some, I mean a couple hundred. Maybe 1000. The exact number doesn't matter, just bring as many as you can. Now, set them all up in a line, pointed directly at the thing you want dead, preferably far enough that you can get the peasants in place, with 12 seconds to spare. Give the peasant in the back a 10ft pole you brought from your local general goods store. Now, when combat starts, make all the peasants ready an action to pass the 10ft pole to the one in front of them, with the final peasant up front readying an action to throw at the Dragon, set to trigger on your say. When you think it's time, order the throw, and within the 6 seconds, which is the length of one round of combat, you will have accelerated a 10ft pole 10,000ft in 6 seconds, reaching a velocity of (assuming you brought 10,000 peasants) 1666 ft/s. That's a 7/8 lbs hitting a dragon at over twice the energy of an M107 .50 sniper. Need more power? Bring more peasants. Need more ammo? Just bring more 10ft poles. Welcome to the Peasant Railgun. This will work up to the point the DM hits you across the face with the Dungeon Master's Guide.
Furcas funnily enough I've done something like this, but with three stone giants and a boulder. We had a pretty nice DM and we were getting fucked up (five drops, four of which was between our tank and rogue and one was me as the ranger) our cleric dropped and we had some giants around that offered to help because this fuck off ancient blue dragon was invading their home and our tank (a goliath) got a damn good role in convincing them to fight with us. I used my turn to heal our cleric and give the giants the order. On their turn one picked up a boulder and they chained it in an arc before throwing it into the dragons side, a few successful athletics checks, a failed dex and strength check later and bam, 147 damage done and one ancient blue dragon knocked prone with 20~ HP left.
Furcas Are you guys talking about Dungeons and Dragons? If so, the board game or an online thing? If not, what *are* you guys talking about?
D&D is also a pen and paper RPG, this is what they're referring to.
Fantafaust Thanks!
No problem :)
It's a fun game, maybe you could look into it sometime in the future.
Basically how to kill a giant monster, just throw stuff at it from far away
David Nguyen I'm proud no one mentioned pommels on this comment yet, you basically set them up for it.
Like a pommel?
Honudes Gai That's why Guts has a repeating crossbow and cannon, though a lot of his enemies are too large/tough to be fazed by those weapons so a 600 pound sword swung at high speed is generally better.
Just everyone: *struggling to defeat the monsters with axes, spears, big stuffs, etc.
AOE 2 monks: "hold my beer...."
So true.
M N A Naufal yololo
Bob Gymlan
Monsters: *changed it's pants color from red to blue
Yololo
@@Rodrik18 Wololo!
0:18
me: *awkwardly puts longsword back in the equipment chest*
2:50
me: *excitedly grabbed switchaxe*
5:42 takes out insect glaive with murderous intent
4:06 Construction work outside the building? Strange way to phrase it, since you're outside!
If only you commented this 2 years earlier so everyone could've seen this gold
O B J E C T I O N ! ! !
He's using a green screen
@@josephallen3978 he's not lol
Great observation sherlock
There is actually a pre-gunpowder weapon that was used against giant mammoths: the atlatl/spear thrower. The projectile was heavy so it was good against the poofy fur.
A group of spear throwers could kill any mammoth
If not a gun, I think a spear. It's worked on everything and is still extremely effective. It's that you can throw it and use it close range while keeping at a distance.
you can never go wrong with a spiked warhammer.
Plate armor? Bash it in.
Scales? Use the spike
Leather or flesh? just bash it.
No need for complexity...
Until your opponent is faster than you...
@@theragingwarcat1410 Just get a slightly smaller warhammer.
A better thing would be a battle hammer with a spike on one side and a axe blade on the other it would work the same way but it would piece deeper
@@mangobot232 yeh, and plus you will rip off your own ribs :D
Good point my friend, but speed .... speed is important
If the intro to Dark Souls taught me anything, it's to pray to a chime and then throw lightning at the target
Hoy! Heretic! It's a talisman! In Lordran we don't such pussies like in Drangleic :D
Nanomachines Son! Praise the god damn sun :}
\[T]/
I dont know, cutting at that demons ankles with my sword seemed to work pretty well
When you mentioned climbing the monsters and stabbing their weak point it instantly reminded me of Shadows of the Colossus.
If I had the super strength, toughness and the ability to increase my mass at will in order to make it possible to effectively wield an oversized weapon. I'd probably just be one punch man instead of having a war hammer the size of an SUV.
Ideally... a 40mm canon.
Jesup Colt yes a bofors would be very effective
That might be legitimately the only thing that could kill a dragon, if they were real and as tough as fantasy usually makes them.
I picked spear...
My idea was a ZSU 57-2.
Harder hits over even a longer distance mounted on a tracked vehicle.
Jesup Colt "Hans, get ze flak 36!"
I find it funny that monster Hunter has all these ridiculous monster blades and the sword and shield is like " hello I joined the wrong lark and they won't let me leave" and this video just reminds me of that for some reason
fluff dafire the worst part is that the sns is actually one of the most effective weapons in the more recent games What with oils, slingers etc.
@@KhezuWiggles kinda made it less than preferable in iceborne cuz now other weapons can use the slinger while unsheathed as well but I will remain loyal to the SnS.
X-Red7 G they said they would buff it somehow.
X-Red7 G Rejoice, my fellow sns main, for we will be buffed, with a new and improved slinger.
I will never put down my dual blades
The fact that you used an image of Jörg for the crossbow bit is great. I'm sure he would be happy to show you it's features.
but... i wanna charge my greatsword 3 times and then hit the monster with it :(
I tried your advice and used the crossbow instead of the silver long sword on a Manticore , and Geralt got his ass kicked. You have been proved wrong.
Doesn't help that in that game the crossbow is the most useless piece of garbage in the game...
sushanalone It also doesn't help that Geralt has one tiny crossbow. It barely packs any punch whatsoever.
You can boost it to a ridicilous amount with the mutagene. Then it can nearly one-shot things. ( the mutagene from the blood and wine dlc )
Haha yes. It is an absolute piece of shit, even WITH the perks or mutagens associated with it.
@andreasgamerschaller Maybe if you're playing on a low/med difficulty
glad to see skall doing fantasy scenarios again...
keep it up
Ash bro nephilim are on horizon you may like this scenario for strats for the giants.
Gotta say, love the channel, love the content. Very informative, and entertaining. Keep doin what your doing, I know you will, and may the gods continue to bless you and yours.
I appreciate these kind of videos you make giving your knowledge based opinion on what would work in reality. To me you’re not breaking my immersion. More frequently than before I am noticing when weapons in games go from awesome to impractical to even ridiculous. That breaks my immersion. Videos like this help me understand why that enormous weapon my character is wielding just doesn’t make me feel as awesome as it should. Thanks.
"at that point they might as well walk up to the monster, rip its leg off and beat it to death" I mean, thats basically monster hunter... taking the monster's body parts and killing it with those. Like look at the rathalos, kut-ku, garuga or gypceros hammers, those are just the monster's head on a stick and thats just off the top of my head.
If the heroes are so absurdly strong, they should just take make big fat heavy spears and throw them possibly from an elevated safe point to the beast, with their strength those big spears should basically be ballistic missiles, piercing the beast even side to side and pinning it to the ground. GG
That's pretty much what the bow from monster hunter is it's a bow that shots sword size arrows
the Story of Goliath spends almost as much time describing his giant spear as they do describing the fight with David.
You are right! The power of the high ground is unstoppable
Throw a dragonator
*Kinetic force creates massive shockwave exploding nearby village*
As a monster hunter, I hunt with my trusted bows and arrows
“SnS BAYBEEEEEEE!” -Jocat
Now, I know what you're thinking. Can I still rely on my swords and spells and sneaking and all that nonsense? Sure, sure. Or... you could use... The Wabbajack!
Oh, a Terrasque? Now yer a sweetroll! Delicious... but slightly musty, MY FAVORITE!
"didn't see that coming, did ya?"
Drift no I have Something better.... A WABBAJACK OF CHEESE!!!!
cheeeesy
Syrio Forel you Will use a wooden sword
But Skallagrim! Big sword = big pommel
MarkipIier games
And a big pommel means that you can essentially fire your pommel from a cannon and end someone rightly from even further away!
Spear = most underrated God tier weapon in video games
Haha I loved the little insert of JeorgSprave's mega crossbow.
one the best depictions of a dragon hunt was in one of those RP forums I haunted a few years ago. in this RP thread a dragonhunt was basically the job of an army.
the local baron had a small standing army, and to kill the dragon he mobilized several hundred crossbowmen with heavy arbelests and commisioned dozens of ballistas and readied a small cavalry unit. He would hide the siege machinery in the forests with precalculated paths of fire, spread the crossbowmen out in a large area and sent out cavalry wearing water drenched cloth to act as bait and lure the beast into the killing field. the point would be to cripple and bleed the beast as fast as possible so that it couldn't flyby strafe anymore, and once it crashes, pelt it with ballista bolts and arbalest fire till it dies, keeping out of range of its breath attack. no plate armor, no melee, high mobility troops and a prepared battlefield.
basically, dragon hunting was the job of the ruling class, pricy, huge ordeals and the job of a small army.
if the dragon had a cave lair it would be even easier. just point all those ballistas at the exit and then send in some convicts as bait. or just rig the exit to collapse.
Aren't dragons lairs supossed to be placed in high rocky mountains surrounded by cliffs? That would complicate things a little.
By the way, I don't remember balistas having ever been used to kill giant animals in real life.
I would loose my shit if I saw Skall climbing on top of a large beast to hammer an oversized railway spike into its brain. It would actually be the best
Nick Perez I would pay for that
Ask him to play shadow of the collosus... Thats basically how you kill things in that game
bladerex1224
I think that was the joke
Reminds me of Kabaneri of the Iron fortress (i think that is what it was called) main characters weapon is basically a railway rifle that shoots bullets (as in it shoots bullets, casing, primer, powder, and all. when it hits it's target, it fires a second time... sorta like an RPG, but not really.)
Let's make a movie or a TV series with Skallagrim and other RUclipsrs (Matt Easton, Lindybeige etc) doing cool and heroic stuff
Idk why, but these are my favorite type of videos. Don't get me wrong, I like all your videos, but for some reason these rambling, totally hypothetical videos are my favorite.
Giant swords are basically axes with sword shaped blades.
With the weight of a full suit of armor
For a horse
It's really interesting to think about the sheer destructive force of *big swad*
*WHERE'S MY DRAGONATER?!*
On Gogmazios.
Atal-Ka took it, along with everything else.
kill it with love
The Blorg aprove
Friend?
Use the hug of death
THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
*kindness
6:42 what is that beauty???? Great analysis!!
I think I already have super weight :(
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Giant Monsters ?
no Problem, call Joerg Sprave and he will test its features HAHAHA
That would just be Giant monster against another smaller Giant monster :)
HiddenSkill airzooka
HiddenSkill "and this is what I came up with: IT'S THE MAMMOTHPENETRATOR 9000!! HAHAHAHA!! LET ME SHOW YOU ITS FEATURES!!!"
sttonep so elephant gun against a rabbit type of scenario?
HiddenSkill cold steel torpedo slingshot and scalpel frisbee
Whichever weapon has the most +damage to dragons, duh.
Lightning
@@quenvanwijk What if it's not in Dark Souls and is an electric element dragon? ;o
Wyrmslayers, duh.
RawkL0bster MORE LIGHTNING
Sunlight
Now i'm curious to know how you would analyze each MH weapon efficiency.
In the world I'm currently working on, Big wall of pikes fend them off while others shoot them with muskets, canons and magic.
Skall, I really like this kind of video! What about making a video series about ideas on how to fight mythological creatures (giants, orks, animated skeletons, cockatrice, goblins, werewolf, vampire, barghest, spriggans, insectoids etc)? You could take inspirations from the witcher's bestiary, it includes a ton of monsters from many european cultures!
Donato Vicenti YESSSS
well Orcs are generally just very strong humans in almost all mythos except for the one or two where it's the same as an ogre or troll in which case it's easier to talk about ogres and trolls instead
+Verumnos Grohiik orcs are corrupted elves in Tolkien's myths
Verumnos Grohiik Warhammer 40k Orks are giant fungus monsters that like to zerg rush planets and annihilate them for fun.
Donato Vicenti that is really cool
Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.
But sometimes, you just need a little less gun.
Where's the Freedom? Can't go wrong with more gun though.
Where's the Freedom? There is no such thing as bad overkill.
DovahSpy I was about to make this comment
TF2 that game :) good times.
I love your background in this video
I personally find the gunlance from the monster hunter series a fascinating design, even if it makes no sense at all really. I'd like to see a video from someone discussing how effective it could be, I understand that blanks are dangerous and perhaps easier to make than proper ammunition so I imagine it would be a fun idea to play with.
Knight: Great Dragon! I challenge you over dominion of your riches and of your castle!
Great Dragon: Oh whoa, another challenger clad in steel and leather. Tell me, what makes you any different from your predecessors? Those who lashed at me with swords, trinkets to kill others of their kind, spears to hunt great beasts, and axes to topple lumber. Do you have the will of a thousand men, do you have the sickness known as determination? Or do you simple mean to prove your bravery, being known as the hero who dreamed of vanquishing the Great Dragon of his age?
Knight: Great Dragon, I have no weapon such a sword, spear, or ax. Though I do have the sickness, I am here to end your reign on the land. The weapon I have brought with me is unlike any other brought by my predecessors!
Great Dragon: The tenacity of your valor has intrigued me. Tell me, what weapon have you brought before your death?
Knight: A 13 mm combat pistol, 39 cm long and 16 kg in weight with six 13 mm semi-armor-piercing high-explosive rounds per magazine. Great Dragon, I have brought with me a gun!
Great Dragon: ... ... ... The hell's a "gun?"
(Well, that's all the effort I plan to use today.)
Okay, not sure what that means.
Oh, okay then. I'm still bringing a gun versus the dragon.
MinecraftiaForever that could do well, I wouldn't want to fumble around with rockets. If I miss, that is.
Just get a leopard tank and some friends lol
Arbidrous Ocixious nippon steel
A long, really long spear with explosives inside the head (quantity depending on the size of the beast).
You just need to penetrate deep enough to burrow the explosive, shock-wave damages can easily be lethal.
Isn't that how whales are being hunted?
Without the explosives in the point, I hope.
Today they use cannons to throw harpoons (yes we human still hunt whales), once upon a time they used hand harpoons, but the hunt could last hours to tire the whale before the kill.
I believe I've once read somewhere that some pepole use explosives, though it is frowned upon by a lot. Can't remember where though.
You might be thinking about "dynamite fishing" that consist in throwing a stick of dynamite into the water, having it explode under and kill all the fishes around that would go floating on the surface. The fisher would just have to harvest what he needs from the surface. The problem is that you kill everything around you, not only what you need. Did I mention that it is internationally illegal?
It uses the same characteristic of water I was talking about in my first comment, water is not compressible, so any explosion in a water medium (water for the fishers, the body for the monster) the shock-wave will loos less energy travelling that it does in the air, delivering a more violent blow to the fishes, or the organs that an air-blast.
So...the gunlance from MH?
A howitzer.
Can't wait to see Skallagrim tell how to wield one properly.
When I saw the stone age comparison I knew today was a day for learning about the stone age. I searched and who would have guessed it? More skallagrim episodes lol time for a deep dive
the answer is always spears...
No training? Spears!
Are they big? Spears!
Are you many? Spears!
Cowardly/Hesitant Troops? Spears!
No weapons? Spears! (sharpened sticks)
Are they armoured? Spears!
Are they mounted? Spears!
Are they/you shield walled? Spears!
Do they have spears? Spears!
Do they not have spears? Spears!
Are they charging/using momentum? Spears!
Need to finish off a downed (but still dangerous) foe? Spears!
Disciplined/skilled troops? Start with Spears!
Are they Far? Throw your spear and end them rightly lol
Ben Masta Awesome!
Ben Masta
Spears can still be countered to some extent, they could be parried with a sword for instance, so Spears wielders should carry a backup weapon. Which is obviously another smaller spear.
funny how that is eh lmao. Spears are just too functional.
Well a sword is just a spear with a short pole and a long blade, right?
Oreki Houtarou a backup of .38 snubnosed revolver
easy just wear giant dad build and let the fun begin
Forfancyssake and make sure to use the well what is it gesture
Forfancyssake and that point in dex, but *don't tell* anyone
Remember to fire up the Bass Cannon
Forfancyssake that means NEW GAME + BITCHES
this!
The ballistic spear thing at 7:00 is so frickin badass!
I feel that a group using a combination of weapons would work far better than one weapon all around, say a large sword for cutting tendons and muscles vs a hammer or axe to stagger or cripple it
No, no, no - giant swords are really effective... because they have giant pomels, ins't this obvious, duh
Solid Snake no they won't be effective because it is rally thick
And heavy
A truly deadly weapon
A weapon to surpass...
Solid Snake still too THICC
"Because monsters usually don't use swords" *Laughs in Glavenus*
Laught in Cuga, which basically a jumping swords on wings.
Some poisons are also pretty good against giant monsters if you can find a way to get the poison inside them. Because although they're big, some of our poisons are deadly enough that a few drops are enough to kill thousands of animals. And if you consider, say the Titans from the MonsterVerse, it doesn't matter if they have a hundred thousand times the mass of a normal animal when a few grams of Botulinum Toxin can kill millions of animals. Of course, that's only in more modern-day settings but even in medieval times there are still poisonous snakes and other critters that induce horrible death. That still leaves the issue of being able to administer the poisons but if the giant monster in question likes to eat woodland creatures then dosing a sheep with enough toxins to kill it a hundred times over and leaving it near where it lives could work. And to avoid problems of it for some reason being immune to one toxin you can avoid that by dosing it with several different toxins. Also, although I'm not an expert on history I'm fairly certain that they practiced some forms of this by covering arrows in fecal matter to give whatever they hit an infection, so it's not like it's something that was alien back then. And if the giant monster is a big enough threat to require an army then I'm sure they'd try things like that.
Title: Best Weapon Against Giant Monsters
My Brain: Spear?
My heart: fantasy sword!!!
If there was monsters in real life i would still want your beard more than any fking weapon , cause if i killed one of them and there was proof, i want to look majestic in future history books
Lol.
just grow your own
Yeah well some of us just don't have the genetics for it! *Cries to myself as I curse my Korean Genetics for keeping my facial hair small and lame*
Kylee Smalley At least you are good at Starcraft like me. No? Darn.
you mean like how we have depictions of ST. George lancing a dragon.
How Dark Souls showed, lightning-infused weapon's best option)
Papa Louie the Chef Lightning Greatsword would work.
@jack jackson you mean CHAOS CLAYMORE
is your mom home? Even better. Chaos Zweilhander in one hand, lightning claymore in the other hand
When the dm accidentally gives you a set of frostbrand handaxes that do 4d6 + 8d8 and +14 to hit 0:04
so the sword is a weapon made by humans to fight humans with swords. my brain still tries to catch that.
That's a paradox.. it is like the, what comes first, the chicken or the egg?
jokes on you I use a gunlance
Lance > Gunlance
Heavy Bowgun > Lance and Gunlance.
HH>HBG
Everyone knows Sword and Shield is the most superior of them all
Charge Blade > Sword and Shield.
And if that don't work; use more gun.
Moar Dakka!
ICEknightnine if that don't work use bombs blow it to fucking hell
Tf2 reference
Sometimes you just need a little less gun.
gabagandalfoftheweed Dakka dakka dakka!!!
love you content Skal!
im curious if you could expand on this topic?
maybe not giant monsters, but large within reason (sabertooth tigers, mamoth, etc etc, could even get creative and think of beastly apocolyse things.
like an insane Cthulu octopus parasite that take over human bodies or whatever. (crazy example but you know what i mean)
"If there were monsters to deafeat in real life, what weapon will you choose??"
Me: the curved nuke
Very happy that you touched on the subject of super strength and toughness being one and the same. It irks me so much when people and/or fictional universes treat them as if they are two different things.
It seems kinda obvious that if someone is strong enough to lift a skyscraper but is somehow still just as durable as an ordinary human, they would pretty much kill themselves the moment they tried to take a breath.
Fun video!
In city of heroes someone RP'd as someone who had super strength but not super toughes...their actual secondary power? Regeneration, basically their body was constantly mending itself in order to repair the damage done to it by being super strong, they were often crippled or confined to a wheelchair but when they got going...
So it CAN work but you definitely need some sort of big secondary power to counteract it.
I'd still argue that is impossible unless the regeneration power is incredibly quick, as trying to move any muscle while being so strong will simply tear the muscle off, as well as anything attached to it.
In which case, they can't get crippled. If they do, it still doesn't make any sense to me.
I will point out you're bringing 'sense' into a super hero arguement, worlds with super science, sentient computer viruses and the like. Plus most heroes don't use their 'super strength' all the time, you're not constantly lifting weights are you (if you are, more power to you, day in day out, benching morning to night)?
No, so essentially the 'Super Strength' would only kick in at moments of needed exhurtion, Superman can lead a normal life as Clark Kent, if not he'd be ripping doors off every time he went into work.
It's the fact that the character in question CAN achieve superhuman feats of strength for short periods of time but it basically cripples them afterwards because of that fact.
Hence the secondary power of Regeneration.
Again: if a character exerts superhuman amount of force they will IMMEDIATELY cripple themselves unless they are tough enough to handle the stress. Their bones will shatter. Their muscles will fall apart.
Even if somehow they can turn their superstrength on and off, the moment they turn it on without super toughness is the moment they, well, basically die.
As for bringing sense into a super hero argument - I don't see why that's a problem?
The way I see it, if a fictional universe relies on "magic did it" to explain each and every particular phenomenon it presents, then that fictional universe is ass. Unless, you know, it's a comedy or satire.
If superman punches a tank into orbit and doesn't go flying backwards HIMSELF from the power of his punch, and the universe does not explain to me that superman is in fact superheavy, or that his flight power is always on, then my immersion will be broken, as ridiculous as the premise might have been prior to this.
If you present a superstrong character and then tell me they are just as fragile as I am, and don't explain that their super strength is actually the result of, I don't know, some external force - like nanobots, or super magnetism or what not - but instead they actually have super strong MUSCLES - but are somehow still as durable as a human?? No, my friend, that is grade A bullshit, even in the world of super heroes.
Yeah, it's the "Required Secondary Superpower" trope, like being super fast requires you to be resistant/immune to air friction.
4:04 Rp explanation: Sound of footsteps of a troll of meadows passing not far away
Skallagrim: Get out! You failed the monster killer exam.
Me: *Hangs head* (runs away sobbing).
Fun fact: If you are an experienced hunter with slow weapons, like the Greatsword, then you know it's one of the most tactical weapons. You wait for openings in the monster's defence and try use every wrong movement of it to attack it. Of cause the playstyle in MhW has gotten easier, still it's not meant to be a stupid weapon.
Or I can just use a glaive and fly and avoid getting stunned by you ground peasants.
Pointy sticks, always king.
STILL THE KING after all these years
That Falchion/Scimitar is gorgeous
Yeah! I wonder where I could buy one!
He has a link at the end of the video that points to a store that wells swords..
The Best Weapon Against Giant Monsters? Anything but a melee weapon.
trexrising 40 pansy
RPG
Three things you need to fight a monster:
1. High ground.
2. Pommel shooting sword.
3. Bat-belt with a bat-button for the bat-pommel explosion.