[UA] weapons

[Yann Golanski]

Quoth Greg Stolze on Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 07:12:43 -0600
> Set this "what-if" up for your ninja buddies -- and I'm genuinely curious
> what their strategy would be.  A man is standing six feet away from you,
> gun in hand, safety off, aiming it at your center of mass.  How do you take
> it away from him without being on the bad side of some very steep odds?

Easy: cheat.  Have a sniper freind of yours covering you or have a
bullet-proof vest.  However, if you cannot do that then your best bet is
to try to somehow confuse the gunslinger.  If his aim is off you have a
small chance of getting him.  Although, chances are you will get a
bullet for your troubles -- wait, that's the very steep odds again.
There are martial arts which will train you against armed attacked --
Kali, Aikido and Jujitsu for examples -- but the adventage goes to the
one with the weapon.

If the guy knows how to use a gun, you're dead.  In the same sense as if
a normal guy tried to take Mike Tyson in a fist fight.  In essence, it's
all a question of training.  It takes time to be a good shoot with a
gun, it takes even more time to stay calm during a fight and still shoot
strait.  So, the situation below is a question of skill.  If both
fighters are as skilled as eachother then the gun wins.  If one is
vastly superior to the other, then the odds are stacked in his/her
favor and the gun just adds to the odds of winning.

For those intrested, have a look at the ``journal of trauma'' which has
periodic reviews on different types of wounds: http://www.jtrauma.com/.
There should be something about Afghanistan sometimes soon as this was
the last major military conflict.  It will details things like knife
injuries and survival rates, bullet statistics in drive by shooting and
general wound treatement statistics.  It's a bit of hard research and
can make for grusome reading but will certainly make your game combat
more realistic.

A quick search on google yeild the following links:
 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/archive/knives/msg00000.html
 http://www.uic.edu/depts/doms/rounds-6.html
 http://www.civilwarroundtable.org/warstories/gunshot_wounds.html
 http://www.dundee.ac.uk/forensicmedicine/llb/gunshot.htm
 http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/archive/knives/msg00006.html
 ...etc...
As with everything else, do check the references to make sure this is
not rubbish -- No, I haven't checked in details although they all do
seem credible.
 
> The point of training for self defense is to try and ensure that your
> skills aren't equal.

Amen to that.
 
BTW, the best way to survive a fight is not to be in a fight in the
first place.

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