Weapons

in Combat

A weapon or armament is any device used with intent to inflict damage or harm to living beings, structures, or systems. Weapons are used to increase the efficacy and efficiency of activities such as hunting, crime, law enforcement, self-defense, and warfare. In a broader context, weapons may be construed to include anything used to gain a strategic, material or mental advantage over an adversary.   While some weapons are improvised and others are repurposed from common tools or devices, most are designed to inflict damage to beings and structures.  

Classifications

  As long as there has been combat, there has been weapons. There have many specialized and unique weapons out there but again, it would be too long to list. So instead I will go over the broad types of weapons that are known, even to laymen.   Melee   Mêlée weapons operate as physical extensions of the user's body and directly impact their target in relatively close range. This includes: Swords, Polearms, Axes, Daggers, Fist Loads, Staves, Clubs, Whips, Drills, Flails.   Ranged   A ranged weapon is any weapon that can harm targets at distances greater than hand-to-hand distance. They most commonly work by launching solid projectiles or "missiles", though there are also fluid-projectors and directed-energy weapon ranged weapons. This includes: Slings, hand thrown versions of melee weapons, Darts, Bows, Seige weapons, Bombs, Cannons, Firearms, Rockets, Fluid projectors, Directed Energy weapons.