Scythes and Cleave

Verazur_1 · **Joined:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:55 pm **Posts:** 21

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Cleave weapons: scimitar, machete, longsword, broadsword, katana,
cutlass, bastard sword, greatsword, claymore, flamberge, no-dachi,
pole-axe, falchion, khopesh, landsknecht, khukri, battle axe,
double-bladed axe, great axe, halberd, bill, glaive, and naginata

Can someone please tell me why you can not cleave with a scythe?

-jadranko- · **Joined:** Sat Oct 25, 2008 11:55 am **Posts:** 17

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/2196/188714-scythe_large.jpg

I..think we had this conversation a few years back. The outcome was that cleaving is a very quick way of hitting someone, with alot of force, and being able to easily rip your weapon out of them, all in one more. You, in essence, cannot hook someone with a scythe, cut through them, and pull back your weapon. If I am not mistaken, Dulrik didn't ever consider it as a option when someone brought it to his attention.

Verazur_1 · **Joined:** Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:55 pm **Posts:** 21

A war scythe is a bit different. And is designed to cleave. Maybe Dulrik should just make scythe and war-scythe two different things then if he's not going to allow a weapon to do what it was made to do.

yoru · **Joined:** Mon Aug 04, 2008 10:29 am **Posts:** 175

Scythes should cleave. Period. I don't know if it's a balance issue why they don't, but regarding their type, they should cleave.

ninja_ardith · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 pm **Posts:** 4452

It is because Dulrik doesn't want someone rolling a female hellion and calling herself Lady Harken.

mundufisen · **Posted:** Sat Nov 01, 2008 11:49 pm

ninja_ardith wrote:

It is because Dulrik doesn't want someone rolling a female hellion and calling herself Lady Harken.

You'd be the one to do that too, huh?

It would work perfect...You don't even need to roll a new char.

Achernar · **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 3:39 am

A regular scythe would not be seen as a cleaving weapon. Its motion is side to side and at an angle that does not promote great force. A war scythe seems much more like a type of polearm than a scythe. It could be used to cleave, but I believe the in game scythe subtype is actually for the former idea.

Pushing40 · **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 4:57 am

That link, while definitely accurate, just blew my visual of a scythe out of the water. My visual was a one-hander crescent-shaped blade with a handle, no pole attached. But still used to mow down plantlife.

Enishi · **Joined:** Mon Feb 02, 2004 7:05 pm **Posts:** 769

You're thinking of a sickle or kama

Syndal · **Posted:** Sun Nov 02, 2008 6:52 am

My concept of cleave is basically swinging your weapon as hard as you can, to try and cut someone in half. Looks like a scythe would be good for that. =/

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