weird weapons
hi guys. i was just wondering if there where any crazy weapons in the ancient world. i just remembered reading a wind on fire a few years ago and it had battle hammers with curved sabers on the other end. kinda weird. was there anything like that that ever took off?
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Well Archimedes is said to have came up with mirrors that would beam down light and set fire to Roman ships when they tried attacking Syracuse.
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Didn't the Greeks come up with some kind of big flame thrower as well? Not so weird by modern standards- but back then it would be terrifying
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Greek Fire?Originally Posted by Azog 150
I knew the Byzantines utillized it, perhaps their ancestors did, too?
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As far as I know, we didn't. The Romans didn't use Greek fire either. I think Kallinekus invented Greek fire from the start.
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Incendiary pigs. Hands down, the worst idea in all history.
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couldn't be that bad, CA put it in RTW.
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The Urumi- A flexible sword often with multiple blades.
Lantern shield- Literally a buckler with a lantern in it.
Spring loaded multi bladed fencing daggers.
Brandistocks.
Kusari-gama.
Iron Fan.
Lucerne Hammer(which is similar to what you speak of).
Bolas.
Real boomerangs(hunting/war type not the toys).
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There was an experimental roman unit made up of Scythed Chariots with Cataphract Lancers on the Horses, although it never saw action
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If you look at Chinese weapons if you can think of it it was probably invented.
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Yeah but those guys had empire-size resources for millenia. Even before unifying as an empire, the different dominions were increadibly large.
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wow some prety funky stuff there. dose anyone watch mythbusters? possibly not the most academic of programs but they tried that archamedes method with the mirrors. cant remember if they managed it or not.. i think not
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They did. You would need a huge one to make a large effect, but it was possible to set fire to wood with a small one
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Well this is not an ancient but it is very weird. Mystery weapons found in Iraq.
http://www.michaelyon-online.com/mystery-weapons.htm
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Well the RPG looks like a toy, it also has no trigger or any other kind of switch on the panel. The Scope looks real enough though.
Secondly, the mystery weapon 2 down below looks like one of those future balls you shake and they say "maybe" or "Try Harder".
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The Zhugenu comes to mind.
Also, poison gas used by the Chinese and others.
The Renaissance had all kinds of crazy weapons. Mostly made for the lulz though. For example,
- A mace with a functional four-barrelled gun inside.
- A walking stick with a poll-hammer's head, and a hidden rapier inside.
- A warhammer with an extendible sword blade on top. Alternatively, with a gun inside.
- A hunting partisan thing with two guns on top.
- A sword-gun made for hunting as well.
- Shield blades.
These are just the things I saw in a museum. More as they occur to me.
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