Interesting how I managed to deeply offend some Monster Hunter fans when the video isn't even about MH in particular. :) The idea of fighting gigantic monsters with oversized swords and whatnot is a very common fantasy trope. Even though MH requires strategic fighting, plenty of other games go by the formula of "bigger is better, just hit 'em hard". And you've got to admit, charging a mountain of muscle, horns, scales, and claws with a melee weapon just doesn't seem as strategic as hammering them with giant ballista bolts from a distance.
I wasn't even offended or anything it's just the fact that the one game there was a picture of in the beginning uses those tactics such as pitfalls and strategies to play the game not just running in.
I am a Monster Hunter fan and this video made absolutely nothing but a whole lot of sense. Nice job man ! I do hope you give it a shot when world comes out even if fantasy is silly in some regards its a very fun game ! Keep the content coming man ! really enjoying the recent ones !
depends if magic existed or not...... but if not then. the monster slayer games use monster materials to make weapons so why not just use that same tactic to make bigger badder ranged weapons instead of getting up close. btw artilery and missles arn't very practical simply cause of deployment times.
@@drakemasta9655 What about good ol' shoulder mounted sta missiles? Quick to deploy, relatively cheap... Or, if that doesn't help, go a step further and deploy Davy Crocket like nuclear grenade launchers That would be my weapon of choice for any large enemy monster/mecha/alien invasion. Unless it entails some 'magic' armor that can't be touched by a literal nuclear explosion in it's center, that is. In that case use magic explodium. The key is: the destruction of enemy equipment has to be way cheaper than the equipment destroyed.
Fun fact: "How to train your dragon" movies seem to follow this guide. There were axes, blunt weapons, polearms, nets and traps, crossbows and catapults and some truly bizzare inventions. And know what? It worked!
Of course, the thing that proved best for fighting the dragons was the dragons themselves. So, I say in a fantasy setting with powerful monsters, find a way to tame some of them and use those for defending yourself.
@Krok Krok no, its too easy. Best weapon aganist giant monsters is a "Mythical Four-Handed Supersharp Hammer of Belligerent Justise", but to craft only pomel you need to cross "Superdeep River of Greedy Flame" and defeat "Risen Pomelcrafter of Ancient Peaks" so its too hard.
@Kama & Kunai only played ds1 but killing bosses and enemies which are essential to kill consumes a hell lotta time like i tried to kill asylum demon with bare fists took me like 10-15 mins to kill the tutorial boss. I wanna do a fist only run but of course with cestus or some fist weapon or it's gonna be boring evading every attack and get 1 to 3 hits that do like 2 dmg.
Honudes Gai That's why Guts has a repeating crossbow and cannon, though a lot of his enemies are too large/tough to be fazed by those weapons so a 600 pound sword swung at high speed is generally better.
According to this video, Thor might actually know what he's doing. He fits all the physical requirements, his hammer takes advantage of his humongous strength, can be thrown even faster than any siege weapon and yet it is practical and portable. Damn.
one the best depictions of a dragon hunt was in one of those RP forums I haunted a few years ago. in this RP thread a dragonhunt was basically the job of an army. the local baron had a small standing army, and to kill the dragon he mobilized several hundred crossbowmen with heavy arbelests and commisioned dozens of ballistas and readied a small cavalry unit. He would hide the siege machinery in the forests with precalculated paths of fire, spread the crossbowmen out in a large area and sent out cavalry wearing water drenched cloth to act as bait and lure the beast into the killing field. the point would be to cripple and bleed the beast as fast as possible so that it couldn't flyby strafe anymore, and once it crashes, pelt it with ballista bolts and arbalest fire till it dies, keeping out of range of its breath attack. no plate armor, no melee, high mobility troops and a prepared battlefield. basically, dragon hunting was the job of the ruling class, pricy, huge ordeals and the job of a small army. if the dragon had a cave lair it would be even easier. just point all those ballistas at the exit and then send in some convicts as bait. or just rig the exit to collapse.
Aren't dragons lairs supossed to be placed in high rocky mountains surrounded by cliffs? That would complicate things a little. By the way, I don't remember balistas having ever been used to kill giant animals in real life.
A big gun. I'm thinking at least 12 guage slugs minimum if we are talking commonly available civilian weapons. Depending on the shotgun chosen, 5-8 slugs per man in the gun is a pretty good way to start off the hunt.
@@waldmeister1544 I was thinking of commonly available firearms. By all means I'm sure .50 machineguns, grenades, armored vehicles, and artillery would probably be the best option but how commonly available are they to non professional military forces? Civil wars aside.
@@corymoon2439 well, a 2-Bore bullstopping shotgun is realy realy rare nowadays and incredibly expensive ≈around 1 Million dollars maybe? But how rare and expensive an elephant Gun is...i have no idea But i think they are both incredibly rare to the point that a 2-Bore shotgun is considered a holy grail between collectors
you can never go wrong with a spiked warhammer. Plate armor? Bash it in. Scales? Use the spike Leather or flesh? just bash it. No need for complexity...
The best way to kill a giant creature, say, a dragon is clearly some Peasants. And by some, I mean a couple hundred. Maybe 1000. The exact number doesn't matter, just bring as many as you can. Now, set them all up in a line, pointed directly at the thing you want dead, preferably far enough that you can get the peasants in place, with 12 seconds to spare. Give the peasant in the back a 10ft pole you brought from your local general goods store. Now, when combat starts, make all the peasants ready an action to pass the 10ft pole to the one in front of them, with the final peasant up front readying an action to throw at the Dragon, set to trigger on your say. When you think it's time, order the throw, and within the 6 seconds, which is the length of one round of combat, you will have accelerated a 10ft pole 10,000ft in 6 seconds, reaching a velocity of (assuming you brought 10,000 peasants) 1666 ft/s. That's a 7/8 lbs hitting a dragon at over twice the energy of an M107 .50 sniper. Need more power? Bring more peasants. Need more ammo? Just bring more 10ft poles. Welcome to the Peasant Railgun. This will work up to the point the DM hits you across the face with the Dungeon Master's Guide.
Furcas funnily enough I've done something like this, but with three stone giants and a boulder. We had a pretty nice DM and we were getting fucked up (five drops, four of which was between our tank and rogue and one was me as the ranger) our cleric dropped and we had some giants around that offered to help because this fuck off ancient blue dragon was invading their home and our tank (a goliath) got a damn good role in convincing them to fight with us. I used my turn to heal our cleric and give the giants the order. On their turn one picked up a boulder and they chained it in an arc before throwing it into the dragons side, a few successful athletics checks, a failed dex and strength check later and bam, 147 damage done and one ancient blue dragon knocked prone with 20~ HP left.
@@appa609 considering that you need something like a four bore rifle to reliably kill a rhino or an elephant before it gets to you, killing something that is even bigger, faster and capable of flight with most guns simply isn't gonna happen. without a proper machine gun with anti air sights, most you'll do is piss it off, if you hit it at all before the dragon toasts your ass.
Windhelm Guard That's based on hunting notions of safety and ethics. If this is treated as war and we accept risks to humans then it's not really that hard. A dragon is a huge target. You need a squad with .308's to bring it down. On the ground it's one well placed shot.
I find it funny that monster Hunter has all these ridiculous monster blades and the sword and shield is like " hello I joined the wrong lark and they won't let me leave" and this video just reminds me of that for some reason
@@KhezuWiggles kinda made it less than preferable in iceborne cuz now other weapons can use the slinger while unsheathed as well but I will remain loyal to the SnS.
Against a skyrim dragon, going for the throat would be a good strategy. In the game's lore, they use their voice to breathe fire, and you wouldn't be able to talk if a huge axe was swung into your throat.
The problem is that you wouldn't be allowed to do it because the dragon's throat is protected by a head with a mouth full of really big sharp tooths and that spits fire to you. I would try to hit the dragon's eyes with a long spear to make him become blind before try to kill him.
Thats the reason the tactics we had in skyrim to killing dragons the realistic ways. 3 person is nesscasary, 1 mage, 1 axe wielder and 1 wards user. Mage will destroy the wings of the dragon to bring it down, ward will protect the axe guy so that he can cut the dragon's throat.
if the dragon is not mentally retarded to make the game playable, you're not beating it, not with the resources available to an unmoded skyrim character. all the dragon has to do is to circle out of range, come down to breathe fire at you, and then get back out of range. lore wise you might have a chance if you know a telvanni wizard who can cast a levitation spell on you that is strong enough for you to chase the dragon and lasts long enough to kill it before the effect wears off and you die from fall damage.
@@diobrando9842 dragonrend only works because skyrim dragons are retarded getting too close and hovering in place. the spell is too slow to hit a dragon who is fighting intelligently.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Can I still rely on my swords and spells and sneaking and all that nonsense? Sure, sure. Or... you could use... The Wabbajack!
Best melee weapon (if distance weapons like ballistas are not available) for fighting huge monsters without superpowers is: A very long pike. Do the braveheart vs. cavalry move. 1. Provoke the monster to charge at you 2. Put the back of the pike in the ground point towards the monster and wait for the charge 3. Let the monster spear itself and hope you will not get buried under it 4. Maybe: Profit. This could work because you don´t need to have superpowers and use the power of the monster against itself. To be honest, this will not work against HUGE monsters (like the monster in Cloverfield) and gives only minimal chances of survival against something of t-rex size, but it seems to be the only chance you got, when confronted with a monster, when you are alone and have no ranged weapons available.
good sir, i won't be in a line waiting for large monster to charge at me even if i have a very long pike. the mass of those monster will be enough to snap the pike and stomp me like an ant. Example of that monster irl is war elephant. but it would work if i put some flame on a pikehead to scare it, after all animal scare of fire.
@@am8776 The speed of the monster would drive the pike through him. Pikes/spears are very good against fast, heavy ennemies thanks to their narrow tip. And the lenght of a pike would allow you to actually damage vital organs instead of slashing uselessly at skin and muscles.
Additionally, shorter spears in the 2-3 meter range would be good for more offensive actions. It's all about the penetration when you fight a house sized killing machine.
If the heroes are so absurdly strong, they should just take make big fat heavy spears and throw them possibly from an elevated safe point to the beast, with their strength those big spears should basically be ballistic missiles, piercing the beast even side to side and pinning it to the ground. GG
I would loose my shit if I saw Skall climbing on top of a large beast to hammer an oversized railway spike into its brain. It would actually be the best
Reminds me of Kabaneri of the Iron fortress (i think that is what it was called) main characters weapon is basically a railway rifle that shoots bullets (as in it shoots bullets, casing, primer, powder, and all. when it hits it's target, it fires a second time... sorta like an RPG, but not really.)
"at that point they might as well walk up to the monster, rip its leg off and beat it to death" I mean, thats basically monster hunter... taking the monster's body parts and killing it with those. Like look at the rathalos, kut-ku, garuga or gypceros hammers, those are just the monster's head on a stick and thats just off the top of my head.
Skall, I really like this kind of video! What about making a video series about ideas on how to fight mythological creatures (giants, orks, animated skeletons, cockatrice, goblins, werewolf, vampire, barghest, spriggans, insectoids etc)? You could take inspirations from the witcher's bestiary, it includes a ton of monsters from many european cultures!
well Orcs are generally just very strong humans in almost all mythos except for the one or two where it's the same as an ogre or troll in which case it's easier to talk about ogres and trolls instead
I can honestly say as a avid Monster Hunter fan that the absurdity of the weapons in that game and others like it is honestly half the charm for me. Being able to appreciate realism in games along with the outlandish is a balance more people need to strike. Still loving the content keep up the good work mate.
I hate monster hunter, always the same. SLay slay slay. LIke come on. A game where you're in the perspective of the "monsters" would be nice. Aren't humans the monsters for decimating them out of sport though?
if you actually did some research, you will find that in Monster Hunter, we only hunt monster destroys the ecology, or capture them to research(I'll admit, i'm skeptical in the "research" part) then release them back into the wild. Here's a quote in that game goes a bit like this: unlike normal monster, whichs adapts to the enviroment they are in, Elder Dragons adapts the environment to them
Just like humans do in the real world right? Hunting iguanas because they eat too many plants, killing coyote because they dare be predatory, to kill a wolf because they can attack livestock, to then kill a coyote who's preying on deer, to then mass slaughter coyote to make deer overpopulated to have more to kill in that season, to kill a lion as a trophy and call it a sport. Sorry for the skepticism but the way humans "help" the environment actually ruins it. Look humans have been playing god in real life. Answer me this, who's the real monster, reptiles that have grown large? Or those who kill any animal that dares be predatory while having the largest size to population index in the entire earth, and having the entire thing under control, and to kill whatever humanity disagrees with...sounds like humans are the monsters
A long, really long spear with explosives inside the head (quantity depending on the size of the beast). You just need to penetrate deep enough to burrow the explosive, shock-wave damages can easily be lethal.
Without the explosives in the point, I hope. Today they use cannons to throw harpoons (yes we human still hunt whales), once upon a time they used hand harpoons, but the hunt could last hours to tire the whale before the kill.
You might be thinking about "dynamite fishing" that consist in throwing a stick of dynamite into the water, having it explode under and kill all the fishes around that would go floating on the surface. The fisher would just have to harvest what he needs from the surface. The problem is that you kill everything around you, not only what you need. Did I mention that it is internationally illegal? It uses the same characteristic of water I was talking about in my first comment, water is not compressible, so any explosion in a water medium (water for the fishers, the body for the monster) the shock-wave will loos less energy travelling that it does in the air, delivering a more violent blow to the fishes, or the organs that an air-blast.
Knight: Great Dragon! I challenge you over dominion of your riches and of your castle! Great Dragon: Oh whoa, another challenger clad in steel and leather. Tell me, what makes you any different from your predecessors? Those who lashed at me with swords, trinkets to kill others of their kind, spears to hunt great beasts, and axes to topple lumber. Do you have the will of a thousand men, do you have the sickness known as determination? Or do you simple mean to prove your bravery, being known as the hero who dreamed of vanquishing the Great Dragon of his age? Knight: Great Dragon, I have no weapon such a sword, spear, or ax. Though I do have the sickness, I am here to end your reign on the land. The weapon I have brought with me is unlike any other brought by my predecessors! Great Dragon: The tenacity of your valor has intrigued me. Tell me, what weapon have you brought before your death? Knight: A 13 mm combat pistol, 39 cm long and 16 kg in weight with six 13 mm semi-armor-piercing high-explosive rounds per magazine. Great Dragon, I have brought with me a gun! Great Dragon: ... ... ... The hell's a "gun?" (Well, that's all the effort I plan to use today.)
Two giant swords, one of them with an unscrewable pommel. The idea is to play baseball/golf (depends on size of pommel) and use a murder stroke to launch the other pommel at the monster. This should end any giant monster rightly, provided that you use a sufficiently large sword and pommel.
If there was monsters in real life i would still want your beard more than any fking weapon , cause if i killed one of them and there was proof, i want to look majestic in future history books
Black arrow fired from a wind lance. A reliable option so long as you are patient enough to wait a couple hundred years. The first few shots will only dislodge the monsters armour, then you'll have to wait a couple generations for the right grubby barge sailor to show up to fire the last arrow and finish the job. (you may also need a few dwarves and a hobbit)
In the book it was just a black arrow fired from a longbow. The archer said that he had never missed with that particular arrow, so perhaps it was very well made, but it was a normal arrow nonetheless.
the answer is always spears... No training? Spears! Are they big? Spears! Are you many? Spears! Cowardly/Hesitant Troops? Spears! No weapons? Spears! (sharpened sticks) Are they armoured? Spears! Are they mounted? Spears! Are they/you shield walled? Spears! Do they have spears? Spears! Do they not have spears? Spears! Are they charging/using momentum? Spears! Need to finish off a downed (but still dangerous) foe? Spears! Disciplined/skilled troops? Start with Spears! Are they Far? Throw your spear and end them rightly lol
Ben Masta Spears can still be countered to some extent, they could be parried with a sword for instance, so Spears wielders should carry a backup weapon. Which is obviously another smaller spear.
I appreciate these kind of videos you make giving your knowledge based opinion on what would work in reality. To me you’re not breaking my immersion. More frequently than before I am noticing when weapons in games go from awesome to impractical to even ridiculous. That breaks my immersion. Videos like this help me understand why that enormous weapon my character is wielding just doesn’t make me feel as awesome as it should. Thanks.
You are correct! You never failed the Giant Monster Slaying test. Because when you graduated from the Dark Souls School of Git Gud, you found that your Masters Degree in Oversized Swords wasn't actually applicable in Reality. Nor did any school based in Reality accept your credits. So you couldn't even qualify to get into Skallagrim's Giant Monster Hunting course. Sorry man. Don't know what to tell you. Well, other than advise you not to go to a class or college based in Reality. Might I suggest sticking to finding a job in Anime or in Video Game industries instead?
There is actually a pre-gunpowder weapon that was used against giant mammoths: the atlatl/spear thrower. The projectile was heavy so it was good against the poofy fur. A group of spear throwers could kill any mammoth
@@mysteries6894 bingo. Humans would either be extinct(if they even managed to evolve to begin with) or living in isolated and heavily fortified cities.
If not a gun, I think a spear. It's worked on everything and is still extremely effective. It's that you can throw it and use it close range while keeping at a distance.
If I had the super strength, toughness and the ability to increase my mass at will in order to make it possible to effectively wield an oversized weapon. I'd probably just be one punch man instead of having a war hammer the size of an SUV.
To answer Skallagrim's very first question in this video: *FIRE* I would use fire to cause large conflagrations that would wipe out my enemies on the battlefield. Any monster impervious to fire...i would drown in oil or in large pools of water.
Gotta say, love the channel, love the content. Very informative, and entertaining. Keep doin what your doing, I know you will, and may the gods continue to bless you and yours.
Hmm. I don't know about that one. We're talking about a beast that's as large as a building. What's to stop them from just ripping the harpoon gun from it's mount when you attach the rope.
Plus, judging by the damage from pure kinetic force and the existance of elements and statuses (both are poisons basicaly), you may want to do very small cuts that deliver poison in their system and have the ability to dodge out. No guns, smaller weapons for the win.
4:16 Science explanation The smaller axe would deal more damage because Pressure= Force/Area. The axe would be lighter to swing which means more force, and because of it's size the area it hits is smaller thus creating a bigger pressure which will deal more cutting and slashing power to a giant monster Meanwhile, the sword will probably have the same force if the person carrying it is the same as the axe men did, but the area it will hit the giant monster is larger which will make the pressure will become much smaller. So yeah, the axe maybe is smaller in size, but it will surely hurts the monster severely.
If the arm isn't strong enough to justify a bigger axe that you could stick more deeply into their skin, I think the size of the axe may be the least of the problems.
Idk why, but these are my favorite type of videos. Don't get me wrong, I like all your videos, but for some reason these rambling, totally hypothetical videos are my favorite.
put the largest pummel you can into a catapult and fire it. 'Isn't that just an awkwardly shaped steel ball with a hole in it?' I hear you say and I'd reply 'shut up'
"We were finding bits of dragon for DAYS, spread across the country side...we questioned wether bringing the Iowa out of mothball was overkill for a dragon...but it's not like you get the chance every day/"
It's for that reason you'll probably want a tank cannon instead. Oh, it's a Rathalos and flies all the god damned time like a complete dick? www.military-today.com/artillery/otomatic.htm Hmm...
If video games have taught me anything, luring the monster into attacking a local chicken is best. That way vengeful peasants come out of hiding and swarm the monster like a colony of angry ants.
Good for everything eccept flying monsters and anything small and fast. Flak cannon with one or two RGP-40 and few assault rifles as sidearms would be ultimate.
Interesting how I managed to deeply offend some Monster Hunter fans when the video isn't even about MH in particular. :)
The idea of fighting gigantic monsters with oversized swords and whatnot is a very common fantasy trope. Even though MH requires strategic fighting, plenty of other games go by the formula of "bigger is better, just hit 'em hard". And you've got to admit, charging a mountain of muscle, horns, scales, and claws with a melee weapon just doesn't seem as strategic as hammering them with giant ballista bolts from a distance.
I wasn't even offended or anything it's just the fact that the one game there was a picture of in the beginning uses those tactics such as pitfalls and strategies to play the game not just running in.
I am a Monster Hunter fan and this video made absolutely nothing but a whole lot of sense. Nice job man ! I do hope you give it a shot when world comes out even if fantasy is silly in some regards its a very fun game ! Keep the content coming man ! really enjoying the recent ones !
Skallagrim 😂
whiney baby's in their mommas basement , got nothing better to do
Automatic hand-held ballistas are akchully practical! I swear! You just have to be strong enough to barely use it when you could use another weapon!
All you need when fighting beasts:
1. A Hobbit
2. A rock
3. 2nd breakfast
Fucking A
Don’t forget elevenses, very important.
What is the reference in no.2?
hobbit are good at throwing stones.
dont forget 11'zs
"At that point, they might just as well walk up to the monster, rip it's leg off and beat it to death with it."
*laughs in doomslayer*
Actually that's almost a word for word execution in gears of war, swapping "leg" with "arm"
I was scrolling through comments and listening to the video, and that part played just as I got to this one
The Last Giant in Dark Souls II rips off its own arm to try to kill you.
As someone who ended Monster Hunters with daggers,
this is very usefull tactic
*RIP AND TEAR!!!*
"If there were monsters to defeat in real life, what weapon would you want?"
Artillery. You want artillery.
cruise missiles.
Or a helicopter
depends if magic existed or not...... but if not then.
the monster slayer games use monster materials to make weapons so why not just use that same tactic to make bigger badder ranged weapons instead of getting up close. btw artilery and missles arn't very practical simply cause of deployment times.
@@drakemasta9655 What about good ol' shoulder mounted sta missiles?
Quick to deploy, relatively cheap...
Or, if that doesn't help, go a step further and deploy Davy Crocket like nuclear grenade launchers
That would be my weapon of choice for any large enemy monster/mecha/alien invasion.
Unless it entails some 'magic' armor that can't be touched by a literal nuclear explosion in it's center, that is. In that case use magic explodium.
The key is: the destruction of enemy equipment has to be way cheaper than the equipment destroyed.
@@drakemasta9655
Motars and recoiless rifles are pretty man-portable.
Geralt pulls out a 22 magnum.
"What...what are you doing!?"
"Killing monsters."
“How do you like that silver?”
...but why .22? You could have at least bother with 9mm if .45 or .357 is too much!
@@samuelmendoza9356 Bro, its just a joke...
Lol a 22 magnum is not a very large round. Of course .22 lr and .22 magnum are very deadly, but you wouldn't use it on a monster.
@@nickcobb865 22 Magnum fast as fucc boi, also 22 Is unlikely to kill a human from 522 teet to The head.
You forgot the psychological effect it has on monsters to swing weapons made out of their parents at em
I d-don't think they c-care
@@tsulashyfox8588 are you seriously role playing as shy on a UA-cam comment section
M Sharmall Yesh
Leave it to the furries
I really don't think monsters are smart enough or empathetic enough to experience significant psychological damage
"Might as well tear its leg off and beat them with it?" Beowulf likes this idea.
RPG incorporated Doomguy liked this.
I like this idea
We talkin bout mah boi Beowulf (Skullgirls)?
An impending fist fight with a terrifying giant is no reason not to party (In fact it was specifically a reason to party)
Floofy Panda Wolf you and your osp reference
"..Strongest crossbow you can build."
*picture of Joerg*
Inquisitor Cornelius and slingshot*
*Let me show you its features!*
Laughs in joerg HAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAA
Yeah... I think that's just a giant slingshot... That fires arrows...
@@hypothalapotamus5293 u dont know what joerg can do bitch
Fun fact: "How to train your dragon" movies seem to follow this guide. There were axes, blunt weapons, polearms, nets and traps, crossbows and catapults and some truly bizzare inventions. And know what? It worked!
@Large Idiot Child :D
@Large Idiot Child they could make a movie where anything they try just doesnt work
@Large Idiot Child ur name is all
@Large Idiot Child where can i watch it? I cant seem to find "It worked" (2020) on imdb
Of course, the thing that proved best for fighting the dragons was the dragons themselves. So, I say in a fantasy setting with powerful monsters, find a way to tame some of them and use those for defending yourself.
A magical Katana crafted by 3 monks on the highest peak of the mountain.
Not only did your name bring me joy, your profile picture had me smirking and laughing for like 5 minutes.
@Krok Krok no, its too easy. Best weapon aganist giant monsters is a "Mythical Four-Handed Supersharp Hammer of Belligerent Justise", but to craft only pomel you need to cross "Superdeep River of Greedy Flame" and defeat "Risen Pomelcrafter of Ancient Peaks" so its too hard.
wielded by a 8 year old looking girl who apparently has 40000000 years old.
*Three gods in space
And given to a foolish samurai.
Katana Crafted by 7 lehendary dwarf, at eclipse in the highest peak, with tears from a goddes.
A trebuchet. Throwing the giant pommel from a giant sword. Two memes combined into one cannot be stopped.
John Doe
... Wait, trebuchets were a meme?
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knowyourmeme.com/memes/trebuchets
John Doe
My life has become a little bit more... SOMETHING after learning this. I'm not sure if it's good or bad.
Thank you.
What, launching a 90kg pommel 300 metres to end the monster rightly?
Well if you also count the giant sword as 'the rule of cool', then it's technically 3 memes.
Skallagrim: "...Some people are monsters..."
Geralt Of Rivia: "Hmm... i like that guy"
When you have to fight the dragon
Others : "here, take your magic sword"
Dark Souls player : "here's your dagger"
Zweihander casul
You use your fists, what are u, casul?
@Kama & Kunai only played ds1 but killing bosses and enemies which are essential to kill consumes a hell lotta time like i tried to kill asylum demon with bare fists took me like 10-15 mins to kill the tutorial boss.
I wanna do a fist only run but of course with cestus or some fist weapon or it's gonna be boring evading every attack and get 1 to 3 hits that do like 2 dmg.
Dark Souls 2 Player: *Draws Ladle*
@@zynx1828 What ringz do u got bicth?
Basically how to kill a giant monster, just throw stuff at it from far away
David Nguyen I'm proud no one mentioned pommels on this comment yet, you basically set them up for it.
Like a pommel?
Honudes Gai That's why Guts has a repeating crossbow and cannon, though a lot of his enemies are too large/tough to be fazed by those weapons so a 600 pound sword swung at high speed is generally better.
"Might as well tear its leg off and beat em with it" i mean that's basically what they do, they just sharpen the bone into a pointy end first....
Xdddd
I mean, have you seen a lot of the hammers in minster hunter
@@RichardULong everyone is perfectly sharpened
You gotta admit we Hunter love sharpness, thats why we even sharpen our blunt hammers.
With the wet end?
"Some people are monsters, but let's leave it at that."
Super deep, man.
ur mum is monstwer lol egs dee
"The silver one is for monsters. The steel one is for people who are monsters"
According to this video, Thor might actually know what he's doing. He fits all the physical requirements, his hammer takes advantage of his humongous strength, can be thrown even faster than any siege weapon and yet it is practical and portable. Damn.
And ther is the hole lightning aspekt to
And hes ya know... a god
one the best depictions of a dragon hunt was in one of those RP forums I haunted a few years ago. in this RP thread a dragonhunt was basically the job of an army.
the local baron had a small standing army, and to kill the dragon he mobilized several hundred crossbowmen with heavy arbelests and commisioned dozens of ballistas and readied a small cavalry unit. He would hide the siege machinery in the forests with precalculated paths of fire, spread the crossbowmen out in a large area and sent out cavalry wearing water drenched cloth to act as bait and lure the beast into the killing field. the point would be to cripple and bleed the beast as fast as possible so that it couldn't flyby strafe anymore, and once it crashes, pelt it with ballista bolts and arbalest fire till it dies, keeping out of range of its breath attack. no plate armor, no melee, high mobility troops and a prepared battlefield.
basically, dragon hunting was the job of the ruling class, pricy, huge ordeals and the job of a small army.
if the dragon had a cave lair it would be even easier. just point all those ballistas at the exit and then send in some convicts as bait. or just rig the exit to collapse.
Aren't dragons lairs supossed to be placed in high rocky mountains surrounded by cliffs? That would complicate things a little.
By the way, I don't remember balistas having ever been used to kill giant animals in real life.
"Why do they use swords?"
Because we need to get the rare materials from those tails. Those Brachy Palliums ain't gonna farm themselves!
2:41
“because monsters generally don't use swords”
Glavenus is heating up his tail…
Because even my axe becomes a sword!
"If there were monsters to defeat in real life what weapon wod you want?"
... A gun?
A big gun. I'm thinking at least 12 guage slugs minimum if we are talking commonly available civilian weapons. Depending on the shotgun chosen, 5-8 slugs per man in the gun is a pretty good way to start off the hunt.
Dauntles's Ostian repeaters wants to speak with you.
@@corymoon2439 i think the best usable gun Option whould be a elephant Gun or a 2-bore shotgun
@@waldmeister1544 I was thinking of commonly available firearms. By all means I'm sure .50 machineguns, grenades, armored vehicles, and artillery would probably be the best option but how commonly available are they to non professional military forces? Civil wars aside.
@@corymoon2439 well, a 2-Bore bullstopping shotgun is realy realy rare nowadays and incredibly expensive ≈around 1 Million dollars maybe?
But how rare and expensive an elephant Gun is...i have no idea
But i think they are both incredibly rare to the point that a 2-Bore shotgun is considered a holy grail between collectors
a gun
a really big gun
dakota fields - Kinetic strike platform from space.
So Heavy Bowgun loaded with Cluster Bomb munitions
dakota fields like.... a gun-hammer?
There's a hammer in-game that looks like a gun
gunlance for sure, its like an oversized bang stick for an oversized alligator
you can never go wrong with a spiked warhammer.
Plate armor? Bash it in.
Scales? Use the spike
Leather or flesh? just bash it.
No need for complexity...
Until your opponent is faster than you...
@@theragingwarcat1410 Just get a slightly smaller warhammer.
A better thing would be a battle hammer with a spike on one side and a axe blade on the other it would work the same way but it would piece deeper
@@mangobot232 yeh, and plus you will rip off your own ribs :D
Good point my friend, but speed .... speed is important
battle trained mice to crawl up its urethra and destroy it from the inside
a suicide bomb mouse!
A jihad mouse?
Smart
for the nouseland!
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundevall%27s_jird
He obviously doesn't know about rolling i-frames
*dark souls 2 adp intensifies*
*Evade Extender 5 intensifies*
The best way to kill a giant creature, say, a dragon is clearly some Peasants. And by some, I mean a couple hundred. Maybe 1000. The exact number doesn't matter, just bring as many as you can. Now, set them all up in a line, pointed directly at the thing you want dead, preferably far enough that you can get the peasants in place, with 12 seconds to spare. Give the peasant in the back a 10ft pole you brought from your local general goods store. Now, when combat starts, make all the peasants ready an action to pass the 10ft pole to the one in front of them, with the final peasant up front readying an action to throw at the Dragon, set to trigger on your say. When you think it's time, order the throw, and within the 6 seconds, which is the length of one round of combat, you will have accelerated a 10ft pole 10,000ft in 6 seconds, reaching a velocity of (assuming you brought 10,000 peasants) 1666 ft/s. That's a 7/8 lbs hitting a dragon at over twice the energy of an M107 .50 sniper. Need more power? Bring more peasants. Need more ammo? Just bring more 10ft poles. Welcome to the Peasant Railgun. This will work up to the point the DM hits you across the face with the Dungeon Master's Guide.
Furcas funnily enough I've done something like this, but with three stone giants and a boulder. We had a pretty nice DM and we were getting fucked up (five drops, four of which was between our tank and rogue and one was me as the ranger) our cleric dropped and we had some giants around that offered to help because this fuck off ancient blue dragon was invading their home and our tank (a goliath) got a damn good role in convincing them to fight with us. I used my turn to heal our cleric and give the giants the order. On their turn one picked up a boulder and they chained it in an arc before throwing it into the dragons side, a few successful athletics checks, a failed dex and strength check later and bam, 147 damage done and one ancient blue dragon knocked prone with 20~ HP left.
Furcas Are you guys talking about Dungeons and Dragons? If so, the board game or an online thing? If not, what *are* you guys talking about?
D&D is also a pen and paper RPG, this is what they're referring to.
Fantafaust Thanks!
No problem :)
It's a fun game, maybe you could look into it sometime in the future.
If the intro to Dark Souls taught me anything, it's to pray to a chime and then throw lightning at the target
Hoy! Heretic! It's a talisman! In Lordran we don't such pussies like in Drangleic :D
Nanomachines Son! Praise the god damn sun :}
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I dont know, cutting at that demons ankles with my sword seemed to work pretty well
4:06 Construction work outside the building? Strange way to phrase it, since you're outside!
If only you commented this 2 years earlier so everyone could've seen this gold
O B J E C T I O N ! ! !
He's using a green screen
@@josephallen3978 he's not lol
Great observation sherlock
Jorge Sprave is the only man on Earth who could actually hold his own with a dragon.
And any guy with a gun
@@appa609 not any guy can show you its features.
@@appa609
considering that you need something like a four bore rifle to reliably kill a rhino or an elephant before it gets to you, killing something that is even bigger, faster and capable of flight with most guns simply isn't gonna happen. without a proper machine gun with anti air sights, most you'll do is piss it off, if you hit it at all before the dragon toasts your ass.
Windhelm Guard That's based on hunting notions of safety and ethics. If this is treated as war and we accept risks to humans then it's not really that hard. A dragon is a huge target. You need a squad with .308's to bring it down. On the ground it's one well placed shot.
And the guy who shot down a plane using a tank.
I find it funny that monster Hunter has all these ridiculous monster blades and the sword and shield is like " hello I joined the wrong lark and they won't let me leave" and this video just reminds me of that for some reason
fluff dafire the worst part is that the sns is actually one of the most effective weapons in the more recent games What with oils, slingers etc.
@@KhezuWiggles kinda made it less than preferable in iceborne cuz now other weapons can use the slinger while unsheathed as well but I will remain loyal to the SnS.
X-Red7 G Rejoice, my fellow sns main, for we will be buffed, with a new and improved slinger.
I will never put down my dual blades
The dual blades are also more viable in realistic-ish setting aside from the cartwheeling ballerina swipes
Giant sword=giant pommel
END them rightly
all you need now is a contraption to fling the 90kg giant pommel at a distance of 300m
Trebuchets, obviously
U will Never know me Just throw the damn pommel at it. That’ll teach the beastie.
You just throw it with the might of Zeus!
Ideally... a 40mm canon.
Jesup Colt yes a bofors would be very effective
That might be legitimately the only thing that could kill a dragon, if they were real and as tough as fantasy usually makes them.
I picked spear...
My idea was a ZSU 57-2.
Harder hits over even a longer distance mounted on a tracked vehicle.
Jesup Colt "Hans, get ze flak 36!"
Against a skyrim dragon, going for the throat would be a good strategy. In the game's lore, they use their voice to breathe fire, and you wouldn't be able to talk if a huge axe was swung into your throat.
The problem is that you wouldn't be allowed to do it because the dragon's throat is protected by a head with a mouth full of really big sharp tooths and that spits fire to you. I would try to hit the dragon's eyes with a long spear to make him become blind before try to kill him.
Thats the reason the tactics we had in skyrim to killing dragons the realistic ways.
3 person is nesscasary, 1 mage, 1 axe wielder and 1 wards user.
Mage will destroy the wings of the dragon to bring it down, ward will protect the axe guy so that he can cut the dragon's throat.
if the dragon is not mentally retarded to make the game playable, you're not beating it, not with the resources available to an unmoded skyrim character.
all the dragon has to do is to circle out of range, come down to breathe fire at you, and then get back out of range.
lore wise you might have a chance if you know a telvanni wizard who can cast a levitation spell on you that is strong enough for you to chase the dragon and lasts long enough to kill it before the effect wears off and you die from fall damage.
Windhelm Guard dragonrend to force it to land, then do all the above
@@diobrando9842 dragonrend only works because skyrim dragons are retarded getting too close and hovering in place. the spell is too slow to hit a dragon who is fighting intelligently.
How to kill a giant monster
Step 1: Become a giant monster
Step 2: Fight other giant monster
That easy huh? Hang on, lemme get my ritual chalk.
SHINZOU SASAGEYO
This sounds like a fetish.
Attack on Titan in a nutshell. Also, I found another person with the same name! Pretty rare name if you ask me.
Grayson A I got u fam! #graynation
Use a gun. And if that don't work, use more gun.
But sometimes, you just need a little less gun.
Where's the Freedom? Can't go wrong with more gun though.
Where's the Freedom? There is no such thing as bad overkill.
DovahSpy I was about to make this comment
TF2 that game :) good times.
Now, I know what you're thinking. Can I still rely on my swords and spells and sneaking and all that nonsense? Sure, sure. Or... you could use... The Wabbajack!
Oh, a Terrasque? Now yer a sweetroll! Delicious... but slightly musty, MY FAVORITE!
"didn't see that coming, did ya?"
Drift no I have Something better.... A WABBAJACK OF CHEESE!!!!
cheeeesy
Syrio Forel you Will use a wooden sword
Best melee weapon (if distance weapons like ballistas are not available) for fighting huge monsters without superpowers is: A very long pike.
Do the braveheart vs. cavalry move.
1. Provoke the monster to charge at you
2. Put the back of the pike in the ground point towards the monster and wait for the charge
3. Let the monster spear itself and hope you will not get buried under it
4. Maybe: Profit.
This could work because you don´t need to have superpowers and use the power of the monster against itself.
To be honest, this will not work against HUGE monsters (like the monster in Cloverfield) and gives only minimal chances of survival against something of t-rex size, but it seems to be the only chance you got, when confronted with a monster, when you are alone and have no ranged weapons available.
good sir, i won't be in a line waiting for large monster to charge at me even if i have a very long pike. the mass of those monster will be enough to snap the pike and stomp me like an ant. Example of that monster irl is war elephant. but it would work if i put some flame on a pikehead to scare it, after all animal scare of fire.
@@am8776 The speed of the monster would drive the pike through him. Pikes/spears are very good against fast, heavy ennemies thanks to their narrow tip. And the lenght of a pike would allow you to actually damage vital organs instead of slashing uselessly at skin and muscles.
Additionally, shorter spears in the 2-3 meter range would be good for more offensive actions. It's all about the penetration when you fight a house sized killing machine.
Make the beast follow you into a narrow space where it doesn't fit, then just keep stabbing it with a spear
omg u will break your arms
If the heroes are so absurdly strong, they should just take make big fat heavy spears and throw them possibly from an elevated safe point to the beast, with their strength those big spears should basically be ballistic missiles, piercing the beast even side to side and pinning it to the ground. GG
That's pretty much what the bow from monster hunter is it's a bow that shots sword size arrows
the Story of Goliath spends almost as much time describing his giant spear as they do describing the fight with David.
You are right! The power of the high ground is unstoppable
Throw a dragonator
*Kinetic force creates massive shockwave exploding nearby village*
glad to see skall doing fantasy scenarios again...
keep it up
Ash bro nephilim are on horizon you may like this scenario for strats for the giants.
I would loose my shit if I saw Skall climbing on top of a large beast to hammer an oversized railway spike into its brain. It would actually be the best
Nick Perez I would pay for that
Ask him to play shadow of the collosus... Thats basically how you kill things in that game
bladerex1224
I think that was the joke
Reminds me of Kabaneri of the Iron fortress (i think that is what it was called) main characters weapon is basically a railway rifle that shoots bullets (as in it shoots bullets, casing, primer, powder, and all. when it hits it's target, it fires a second time... sorta like an RPG, but not really.)
Let's make a movie or a TV series with Skallagrim and other UA-camrs (Matt Easton, Lindybeige etc) doing cool and heroic stuff
Any weapon is fine as long as you get the 1d6 sneak attack
Lol
I see youre a rogue of culture as well.....
I would like to smite the rogue
Except anything that’s not a finesse or ranged weapon
*WHERE'S MY DRAGONATER?!*
On Gogmazios.
Atal-Ka took it, along with everything else.
I tried your advice and used the crossbow instead of the silver long sword on a Manticore , and Geralt got his ass kicked. You have been proved wrong.
Doesn't help that in that game the crossbow is the most useless piece of garbage in the game...
sushanalone It also doesn't help that Geralt has one tiny crossbow. It barely packs any punch whatsoever.
You can boost it to a ridicilous amount with the mutagene. Then it can nearly one-shot things. ( the mutagene from the blood and wine dlc )
Haha yes. It is an absolute piece of shit, even WITH the perks or mutagens associated with it.
@andreasgamerschaller Maybe if you're playing on a low/med difficulty
"at that point they might as well walk up to the monster, rip its leg off and beat it to death" I mean, thats basically monster hunter... taking the monster's body parts and killing it with those. Like look at the rathalos, kut-ku, garuga or gypceros hammers, those are just the monster's head on a stick and thats just off the top of my head.
sharpness 5 diamond sword.
fight me
Oh Well. Okay.
Stacked totems of undying in left hand
*Tinker Construct aluminite clever with 26 attack damage, fire aspect, life steal, auto-repair.*
What did you just say ?
@@onebottleofwater9487 lol you have to use mods, gtfo. I bet you can't even do 2 star mania
@@thepope2412 I don't play mania.
And also, why do you have to be aggressive ?
@@onebottleofwater9487 it's called banter
Skall, I really like this kind of video! What about making a video series about ideas on how to fight mythological creatures (giants, orks, animated skeletons, cockatrice, goblins, werewolf, vampire, barghest, spriggans, insectoids etc)? You could take inspirations from the witcher's bestiary, it includes a ton of monsters from many european cultures!
Donato Vicenti YESSSS
well Orcs are generally just very strong humans in almost all mythos except for the one or two where it's the same as an ogre or troll in which case it's easier to talk about ogres and trolls instead
+Verumnos Grohiik orcs are corrupted elves in Tolkien's myths
Verumnos Grohiik Warhammer 40k Orks are giant fungus monsters that like to zerg rush planets and annihilate them for fun.
Donato Vicenti that is really cool
I can honestly say as a avid Monster Hunter fan that the absurdity of the weapons in that game and others like it is honestly half the charm for me. Being able to appreciate realism in games along with the outlandish is a balance more people need to strike.
Still loving the content keep up the good work mate.
I hate monster hunter, always the same. SLay slay slay. LIke come on. A game where you're in the perspective of the "monsters" would be nice. Aren't humans the monsters for decimating them out of sport though?
if you actually did some research, you will find that in Monster Hunter, we only hunt monster destroys the ecology, or capture them to research(I'll admit, i'm skeptical in the "research" part) then release them back into the wild. Here's a quote in that game goes a bit like this: unlike normal monster, whichs adapts to the enviroment they are in, Elder Dragons adapts the environment to them
Just like humans do in the real world right? Hunting iguanas because they eat too many plants, killing coyote because they dare be predatory, to kill a wolf because they can attack livestock, to then kill a coyote who's preying on deer, to then mass slaughter coyote to make deer overpopulated to have more to kill in that season, to kill a lion as a trophy and call it a sport. Sorry for the skepticism but the way humans "help" the environment actually ruins it. Look humans have been playing god in real life. Answer me this, who's the real monster, reptiles that have grown large? Or those who kill any animal that dares be predatory while having the largest size to population index in the entire earth, and having the entire thing under control, and to kill whatever humanity disagrees with...sounds like humans are the monsters
Silverscale Derg You took that way more personally than you should have. Have a chill pill and don't bust a vein man.
your arguement is not convincing at all because you know jack shit about the monster hunter lore
Giant Monsters ?
no Problem, call Joerg Sprave and he will test its features HAHAHA
That would just be Giant monster against another smaller Giant monster :)
HiddenSkill airzooka
HiddenSkill "and this is what I came up with: IT'S THE MAMMOTHPENETRATOR 9000!! HAHAHAHA!! LET ME SHOW YOU ITS FEATURES!!!"
sttonep so elephant gun against a rabbit type of scenario?
HiddenSkill cold steel torpedo slingshot and scalpel frisbee
The fact that you used an image of Jörg for the crossbow bit is great. I'm sure he would be happy to show you it's features.
No, no, no - giant swords are really effective... because they have giant pomels, ins't this obvious, duh
Solid Snake no they won't be effective because it is rally thick
And heavy
A truly deadly weapon
A weapon to surpass...
Solid Snake still too THICC
A long, really long spear with explosives inside the head (quantity depending on the size of the beast).
You just need to penetrate deep enough to burrow the explosive, shock-wave damages can easily be lethal.
Isn't that how whales are being hunted?
Without the explosives in the point, I hope.
Today they use cannons to throw harpoons (yes we human still hunt whales), once upon a time they used hand harpoons, but the hunt could last hours to tire the whale before the kill.
I believe I've once read somewhere that some pepole use explosives, though it is frowned upon by a lot. Can't remember where though.
You might be thinking about "dynamite fishing" that consist in throwing a stick of dynamite into the water, having it explode under and kill all the fishes around that would go floating on the surface. The fisher would just have to harvest what he needs from the surface. The problem is that you kill everything around you, not only what you need. Did I mention that it is internationally illegal?
It uses the same characteristic of water I was talking about in my first comment, water is not compressible, so any explosion in a water medium (water for the fishers, the body for the monster) the shock-wave will loos less energy travelling that it does in the air, delivering a more violent blow to the fishes, or the organs that an air-blast.
So...the gunlance from MH?
Knight: Great Dragon! I challenge you over dominion of your riches and of your castle!
Great Dragon: Oh whoa, another challenger clad in steel and leather. Tell me, what makes you any different from your predecessors? Those who lashed at me with swords, trinkets to kill others of their kind, spears to hunt great beasts, and axes to topple lumber. Do you have the will of a thousand men, do you have the sickness known as determination? Or do you simple mean to prove your bravery, being known as the hero who dreamed of vanquishing the Great Dragon of his age?
Knight: Great Dragon, I have no weapon such a sword, spear, or ax. Though I do have the sickness, I am here to end your reign on the land. The weapon I have brought with me is unlike any other brought by my predecessors!
Great Dragon: The tenacity of your valor has intrigued me. Tell me, what weapon have you brought before your death?
Knight: A 13 mm combat pistol, 39 cm long and 16 kg in weight with six 13 mm semi-armor-piercing high-explosive rounds per magazine. Great Dragon, I have brought with me a gun!
Great Dragon: ... ... ... The hell's a "gun?"
(Well, that's all the effort I plan to use today.)
Okay, not sure what that means.
Oh, okay then. I'm still bringing a gun versus the dragon.
MinecraftiaForever that could do well, I wouldn't want to fumble around with rockets. If I miss, that is.
Just get a leopard tank and some friends lol
Arbidrous Ocixious nippon steel
Just everyone: *struggling to defeat the monsters with axes, spears, big stuffs, etc.
AOE 2 monks: "hold my beer...."
So true.
M N A Naufal yololo
Bob Gymlan
Monsters: *changed it's pants color from red to blue
Yololo
@@Rodrik18 Wololo!
Whichever weapon has the most +damage to dragons, duh.
Lightning
@@quenvanwijk What if it's not in Dark Souls and is an electric element dragon? ;o
Wyrmslayers, duh.
RawkL0bster MORE LIGHTNING
Sunlight
How Dark Souls showed, lightning-infused weapon's best option)
Papa Louie the Chef Lightning Greatsword would work.
@jack jackson you mean CHAOS CLAYMORE
is your mom home? Even better. Chaos Zweilhander in one hand, lightning claymore in the other hand
Two giant swords, one of them with an unscrewable pommel. The idea is to play baseball/golf (depends on size of pommel) and use a murder stroke to launch the other pommel at the monster. This should end any giant monster rightly, provided that you use a sufficiently large sword and pommel.
0:18
me: *awkwardly puts longsword back in the equipment chest*
2:50
me: *excitedly grabbed switchaxe*
5:42 takes out insect glaive with murderous intent
But Skallagrim! Big sword = big pommel
MarkipIier games
And a big pommel means that you can essentially fire your pommel from a cannon and end someone rightly from even further away!
If there was monsters in real life i would still want your beard more than any fking weapon , cause if i killed one of them and there was proof, i want to look majestic in future history books
Lol.
just grow your own
Yeah well some of us just don't have the genetics for it! *Cries to myself as I curse my Korean Genetics for keeping my facial hair small and lame*
Kylee Smalley At least you are good at Starcraft like me. No? Darn.
you mean like how we have depictions of ST. George lancing a dragon.
And if that don't work; use more gun.
Moar Dakka!
ICEknightnine if that don't work use bombs blow it to fucking hell
Tf2 reference
Sometimes you just need a little less gun.
gabagandalfoftheweed Dakka dakka dakka!!!
When you mentioned climbing the monsters and stabbing their weak point it instantly reminded me of Shadows of the Colossus.
Black arrow fired from a wind lance. A reliable option so long as you are patient enough to wait a couple hundred years. The first few shots will only dislodge the monsters armour, then you'll have to wait a couple generations for the right grubby barge sailor to show up to fire the last arrow and finish the job. (you may also need a few dwarves and a hobbit)
Aaron Storey nah. in this case, you must be the hero destiny chose to slay a dragon. tolkiens dragons have that kind of plotarmor.
And if the wind lance gets destroyed, dont worry you can just use your son and a bell tower
Rubber Bander and Proud we don't talk about that film
In the book it was just a black arrow fired from a longbow. The archer said that he had never missed with that particular arrow, so perhaps it was very well made, but it was a normal arrow nonetheless.
forgiven36511 Yeah, I think it was basically his lucky arrow and nothing more
the answer is always spears...
No training? Spears!
Are they big? Spears!
Are you many? Spears!
Cowardly/Hesitant Troops? Spears!
No weapons? Spears! (sharpened sticks)
Are they armoured? Spears!
Are they mounted? Spears!
Are they/you shield walled? Spears!
Do they have spears? Spears!
Do they not have spears? Spears!
Are they charging/using momentum? Spears!
Need to finish off a downed (but still dangerous) foe? Spears!
Disciplined/skilled troops? Start with Spears!
Are they Far? Throw your spear and end them rightly lol
Ben Masta Awesome!
Ben Masta
Spears can still be countered to some extent, they could be parried with a sword for instance, so Spears wielders should carry a backup weapon. Which is obviously another smaller spear.
funny how that is eh lmao. Spears are just too functional.
Well a sword is just a spear with a short pole and a long blade, right?
Oreki Houtarou a backup of .38 snubnosed revolver
jokes on you I use a gunlance
Lance > Gunlance
Heavy Bowgun > Lance and Gunlance.
HH>HBG
Everyone knows Sword and Shield is the most superior of them all
Charge Blade > Sword and Shield.
I appreciate these kind of videos you make giving your knowledge based opinion on what would work in reality. To me you’re not breaking my immersion. More frequently than before I am noticing when weapons in games go from awesome to impractical to even ridiculous. That breaks my immersion. Videos like this help me understand why that enormous weapon my character is wielding just doesn’t make me feel as awesome as it should. Thanks.
easy just wear giant dad build and let the fun begin
Forfancyssake and make sure to use the well what is it gesture
Forfancyssake and that point in dex, but *don't tell* anyone
Remember to fire up the Bass Cannon
Forfancyssake that means NEW GAME + BITCHES
this!
0:18 I failed nothing sir, i passed the dark souls school of git gud with my oversized sword and proud of it.
carlos conde git LMAOBox
You are correct! You never failed the Giant Monster Slaying test. Because when you graduated from the Dark Souls School of Git Gud, you found that your Masters Degree in Oversized Swords wasn't actually applicable in Reality. Nor did any school based in Reality accept your credits. So you couldn't even qualify to get into Skallagrim's Giant Monster Hunting course.
Sorry man. Don't know what to tell you. Well, other than advise you not to go to a class or college based in Reality. Might I suggest sticking to finding a job in Anime or in Video Game industries instead?
Danic C. No git gud
I did it with a normal long sword dude.
carlos conde You're supposed to use the bass cannon.
"Because monsters usually don't use swords" *Laughs in Glavenus*
Laught in Cuga, which basically a jumping swords on wings.
There is actually a pre-gunpowder weapon that was used against giant mammoths: the atlatl/spear thrower. The projectile was heavy so it was good against the poofy fur.
A group of spear throwers could kill any mammoth
kill it with love
The Blorg aprove
Friend?
Use the hug of death
THE POWER OF FRIENDSHIP
*kindness
The catfish knife of doom is the best weapon against anything
Silver Swords.
This man gets it silver for monsters and steel for humans
luca van den brink Geralt of Rivia approves
Sultan
Silver Swordmasters*
Silver pommels!
LEAD swords. Maybe impractical for maaany reasons, but think about it; screw that motherfucker up with lead poisoning! :3
In the world I'm currently working on, Big wall of pikes fend them off while others shoot them with muskets, canons and magic.
Pointy sticks, always king.
STILL THE KING after all these years
To be honest, if we lived in a world with monsters, humans would be a lot faster and a lot stronger than they are now
There is merit to this, admittedly.
Gotta love my natural selection and adaptation.
Humans may not be even life in this era.
@@mysteries6894 bingo. Humans would either be extinct(if they even managed to evolve to begin with) or living in isolated and heavily fortified cities.
@@xKinjax nah, the best option would be underground bunker like structures, or really high up if the beasts couldn't fly.
Hans? Get zhe Panzerschreck
HEINRICH ! GET ON ZE STURMTIGER !
@Raiden Ripper hanz, get ze picklehaub!
Un Sturtzkampff Junkers Ju-87 vill get zhe job done
Just bring a Sturm tiger
If not a gun, I think a spear. It's worked on everything and is still extremely effective. It's that you can throw it and use it close range while keeping at a distance.
a shotgun
but on a tank
Meet the canister shot!
So a shank
@@kadeloftin6429 shotank!
@@thessop9439 ehh nah
@@kadeloftin6429 SHANK!
That Falchion/Scimitar is gorgeous
Yeah! I wonder where I could buy one!
He has a link at the end of the video that points to a store that wells swords..
Says monsters don't use swords.
Glavenus comes in.
+Shadow Ouroboros
You play Dark Souls, m9?
Thermal sword. (Bain, shut up)
Nameless king: am i a joke to you?
If I had the super strength, toughness and the ability to increase my mass at will in order to make it possible to effectively wield an oversized weapon. I'd probably just be one punch man instead of having a war hammer the size of an SUV.
4:04 Rp explanation: Sound of footsteps of a troll of meadows passing not far away
To answer Skallagrim's very first question in this video:
*FIRE*
I would use fire to cause large conflagrations that would wipe out my enemies on the battlefield. Any monster impervious to fire...i would drown in oil or in large pools of water.
Someone knows their way around Ninjutsu.
animal is not that dump they know when the fire is coming better than human most human anyway
*cough* Teostra *cough* and Lunastra *cough*
use Joerg
Monsters don't scare Joergsparve , He scares monsters.
Gotta say, love the channel, love the content. Very informative, and entertaining. Keep doin what your doing, I know you will, and may the gods continue to bless you and yours.
I would yell at it like the dragon born.
Lewis Moore FUS RO DAH
TheDankMemeMaster34 DRAGONBORN
He's the lord fucking cool oh my cod
FOOT GO BWAAAA!
Lewis Moore I'm so sureeeee, He's not gay (YA!) he's our goddd!!!
you continue to surprise me with your knowledge of firearms bro, nice job
Before watching, I'm going to guess a heavy ranged weapon like the pilum if there are no ranged siege weapons to operate.
Moromillas Radec Not bad.
Moromillas Radec well it is pretty obvious
Not just pillum, a harpoon! It should further restrict its' movements.
Hmm. I don't know about that one. We're talking about a beast that's as large as a building. What's to stop them from just ripping the harpoon gun from it's mount when you attach the rope.
Now i'm curious to know how you would analyze each MH weapon efficiency.
Giant swords not cutting out all that much?
Just use an insect glaive or dual blades, then. Helicopters for days.
Je suis monté
@@golxens hon hon hon baguette.
As a fast Hunter , this is relatable to me
5:42 Insect glaive master race for the win
Plus, judging by the damage from pure kinetic force and the existance of elements and statuses (both are poisons basicaly), you may want to do very small cuts that deliver poison in their system and have the ability to dodge out. No guns, smaller weapons for the win.
Thank gog for the Dragonator
Gobul The Gobbler and the ballista binder
That fucking alatreon
4:16 Science explanation
The smaller axe would deal more damage because Pressure= Force/Area. The axe would be lighter to swing which means more force, and because of it's size the area it hits is smaller thus creating a bigger pressure which will deal more cutting and slashing power to a giant monster
Meanwhile, the sword will probably have the same force if the person carrying it is the same as the axe men did, but the area it will hit the giant monster is larger which will make the pressure will become much smaller.
So yeah, the axe maybe is smaller in size, but it will surely hurts the monster severely.
+Rafli Avriza
Thats why Hand Axes are the Best!
If the arm isn't strong enough to justify a bigger axe that you could stick more deeply into their skin, I think the size of the axe may be the least of the problems.
Idk why, but these are my favorite type of videos. Don't get me wrong, I like all your videos, but for some reason these rambling, totally hypothetical videos are my favorite.
But a BIG MASSIVE SWORD has also a BIG MASSIVE POMMEL
that will do the job for certein!
Janik Malkovich hell yeah, you can end anything rightly with that thing!
Exactly! The size of the pommel correlates completely with the amount of justice that can be unleashed.
HAI OH STARTS TO PLAY
put the largest pummel you can into a catapult and fire it. 'Isn't that just an awkwardly shaped steel ball with a hole in it?' I hear you say and I'd reply 'shut up'
i think you mean trebuchet, catapults are for panzies
My weapon of choice for fighting a giant monster? 14 inch naval gun. That'll probably do it.
haldir56 18 inch
the problem with that is that you have to hunt twice. once for the prey and another time for the chunk of the prey
"We were finding bits of dragon for DAYS, spread across the country side...we questioned wether bringing the Iowa out of mothball was overkill for a dragon...but it's not like you get the chance every day/"
It's for that reason you'll probably want a tank cannon instead.
Oh, it's a Rathalos and flies all the god damned time like a complete dick? www.military-today.com/artillery/otomatic.htm Hmm...
luketfer F n A buddy.
In short, either go Shadow of the Colossus on them, or apply enough dakka.
Matteus Silvestre So all we need is being ready to be tossed around like a ragdoll xD
but there can never be enuff dakka
gregsmw That's the spirit!
'Nuff dakka? Wot?
Sometimes, you just need a little less gun
If video games have taught me anything, luring the monster into attacking a local chicken is best. That way vengeful peasants come out of hiding and swarm the monster like a colony of angry ants.
An M1 Abrams.
sanguis bumb nah bro, hellfire missiles
Razgriz Knight Just send in a tactical nuke if it still ain't dead
Good for everything eccept flying monsters and anything small and fast. Flak cannon with one or two RGP-40 and few assault rifles as sidearms would be ultimate.
sanguis bumb nukes, nukes solve everything
A nuke isn't "tactical"
I appreciate that you assumed that joerg's creations were the strongest possible
Glad to see that Skala is accepting the meme nature
but... i wanna charge my greatsword 3 times and then hit the monster with it :(