Rifleman Archive

because they are rifle men and not melee i know.

but something i dont understand, in real life (and i hate useing RL for defense but it does apply here) rifle men hadhuge bladeson the end of their barrels, this was for the chance that someone did get close enough. not to mention the whole butt end hit where the riflemen would take the butt of his gun and smash it into the head of his enemy.

riflemen seem to be set up in such away that we are completely useless for effective pvp combat unless your in a large group. In pvp not alot of your targets stand still for enough time to get the shot. now the following statement could be wrong cause i havent checked out the pistoller since nerfs and such. Anyhow i know they have or had pistol whip which is a melee attack. Well i use T21 and the thing looks like a baseball bat on steriods. there isnt one pistol that could compete with me in melee, i swing that thing and BAM, your on your @ss from a meter away. Fine make the range penalties and the melee penalties but give us a knock down move so we can at least run far enough to get a decent shot.

real riflemen are trained how to fight with the rifle in close combat, its seems unlikely that i would store my weapon just to avoid the 2.5x amplifier.

Also whats harder to hit, a target 5 meters away or 65? i know we are the killers (lol) from a distance but a gun is a gun, the closer a target is the bigger it is. simple logic. im not saying make us close combat proff but how about a +0 mod at 5 meters rather than -50. just so we do have a chance to get away. its not like we clould last long at that range either, with our weapon speed we could have enough time to shoot once or twice depending on the charaters skill.

i like riflemen , i just dont like how we have no up close defense, it does happen.

The thing is... if riflemen were good at melee AND good at distance, we'd be uber, so they'd have to do something to balance it, like suckify is in some other area. I'm fine with sucking up close.

When i was in boot camp for the Marines i remember well some of the bayonet and rifle hth techniques that we all had to learn. The thing that got us riled up the most is that our Drill Instructers said if we choped off the dummies head we got to keep it! Not to mention the hours spent practicing vertical butt strokes, horizontal butt strokes, and bayonet slashes and stuff. Even later in the martial arts training we learn how to incap people who try to grap for our rifles in one move. Cmon tell me someone with a knife can beat the crap out someone who ifmight noteven know how to fight with it in hth dosnt have a big club to hit things with.

i never said to be a melee proff, i said a knock down so we can get away. remember its a move that can only be done once every so many seconds. whatever the KD delay is. knocking down a guy so we can get away wouldnt even get us close to an uber proff. But since we are so pathetic up close, which i think is reasonable, we should be allowed to have a defensive tactic so we can try to get away. if ya miss then your screwd, but atleast we have a chance.

because we're supposed to attack from a prone position...