wackiest historical weapons?

[fusangite]

Basically, a Spetum. A central Partisan-like blade, with two other "tines" which curve up and out towards the longer, central blade, from where the pole is mounted to the metal weapon head. Hold up your hand, with your thumb holding the little finger down, and look at the back of your hand... Now imagine your middle finger longer, and the index- and ring-fingers curved back towards it. Something like that.

Thanks so much! Answer greatly appreciated.

 

[Green Knight]

Some Shield Guns can be seen here.

http://groups.msn.com/HouseofColier/abbottwenikojishots.msnw?action=ShowPhoto&PhotoID=282

 

[jeffsforehead]

The atomic bomb.

 

[Green Knight]

Sword-Revolvers here.

http://www.ruble-enterprises.com/PFsword.htm

Damn, how I want one of those things!

 

[Dirigible]

Phillipino fighting yoyo all the way, baby.

 

[bensei]

... there is a chapter devoted to unusual forms of shooting. Pages 138-9 concern 'the returning arrow' which 'suddenly returns to the point whence it was shot, and may even hit the archer himself'. ... The author adds that 'the purpose of such an arrow is to deceive an enemy who happens to be at your side, and to shoot him while he is unaware' "
is this one of the wackiest things ever?

I don't want to be a smart alec, but this works with every normal arrow.

Just shoot it up into the air.

Besides, I assume the arrow mentioned here has to be shot up in an angle (as for any far shot). So just increase the angle more, and it works for any arrow.

And I am pretty sure that this thing works, it does with frisbees.

 

[Oni]

haha, found images of the weapon I was talking about on the first page. It's called a tarch.

 

[NiTessine]

Iron Toad- A big metal toad, seriously

How would one go about using a big metal toad in combat? Dropping it on people?

 

[hong]

Herodotus reports the regional peculiarities of various peoples' weapons with almost obsessive detail, and that was generally a topic of deep popular interest throughout Greek and Roman history.

Ah, the first gun bunny.

 

[hong]

There was a lot of this kind of thing in the early days of guns. People didn't have a solid idea of how best to use them, so they slapped a gun barrel on anything that was already a weapon. Kind of like what we do with digital clocks.

These days, the big thing is IP addresses.


Hong "ph33r my wifi Internet sword!" Ooi