Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-25316824-20160511220828/@comment-24652012-20160518032546

Their are actually ways to defeat gunmen armed with but a sword, though it requires much training, cunning, tactics, good reflexes, and most of all, enough stupidity to risk it when you could simply have a ranged weapon of your own.

Fun fact, before guns it was STILL, suicidal to have a sword for a primary weapon. Because you would simply get picked off from range by archers. Though if you have a good shield, and/or good enough reflexes to deflect or dodge an arrow, you MIGHT, still stand a chance. Why use of swords as a primary weapon was ever in battle field tactics is beyond me.

But, to have a combat knife for close quarters instead of a sword, that alone is pretty brave. A ranged weapon should be primary, swords, or just a little knife if your braver then that, should be for close quarters.

At least some of us still have the tools to keep up with modern weapons should we have to use melee weapons as primary. For example, I always believed, running out of ammo is not a good enough excuse to leave battle with out a victory. You still need something once that happens.