MC Banhammer Posted:

Raphael kicked bum.

Agreed. He got the job done, and didn’t mind breaking a few heads along the way.

MC Banhammer Posted:

Raphael kicked bum.

ERECTILE_DEATH Posted:

Well, Donatello is the leading vote getter thus far. I have to say, it’s a good choice. Where the other turtles got decent weapons, Donatello would just beat the **** out of you with a big-bum stick. He’s so awesome he needs to have a handicap.

Please note that a staff is a very effective weapon. It has long reach, a lot of power on those long strikes, and you can hold it in the middle for closer fighting where it has two perfectly good ends that you can use interchangeably, all while being fast no matter how you’re using it. If he upgraded to a spear all of that would apply and he would have the poke of death. Don’t diss the most successful weapon design in history.

Celerysteve Posted:

It’s a stick. It’s not a good weapon. Get over it.

Did you know that in the middle ages most infantry used spears as their main weapons, while their swords were only used as backup weapons. Yes, pointed sticks were considered better than swords. And a staff is just a spear without a pointy tip so it’s less lethal. Of course if we want to talk about the best weapons, then no melee weapons would even be considered, as bows and later guns completely decimate anything that you have to hold onto and thwack your opponent with.

Celerysteve Posted:

Don’t believe everything you read in the history books.

Ok, I gave reasons why a staff is a good weapon, then I provided anecdotal evidence, now lets see you do more than sit back and naysay, give me some reasons why a staff is not a good weapon.

Celerysteve Posted:

It’d break because it’s just wood.

Bone is weaker than wood, unless your opponent is in a full set of metal armor, a normal staff won’t break, your opponents bones will. If you do meet someone in full armor, get behind them and push them into a puddle, they will probably drown.

Celerysteve Posted:

Yeah but it’d break on the armor and bone is not weaker than wood.

1. I told you about the armor, you push them, not hit them, you don’t need to, falling in that armor will hurt worse than a normal hit.

2. Good quality wood is definitely stronger than bone, as bone is like a car frame, it’s designed to crack under pressure to diffuse impacts. How else can people crack skulls and kneecaps with baseball bats? And a good staff is almost as sturdy as a baseball bat, but slightly flexible, making it very hard to break.

Celerysteve Posted:

Baseball bat is thicker around that’s why.

Are you reading my posts? Let me refresh your memory,

MasterHaxxor Posted:

And a good staff is almost as sturdy as a baseball bat, but slightly flexible, making it very hard to break.

Sergeant Cid Posted:

And a good bo staff is made of denser wood than a baseball bat.

If it wasn’t a reliable & effective weapon, it wouldn’t have been used in various forms, by various cultures, for centuries.

You’re just stretching the truth. It’s just not a good weapon. It’s a stick and that’s all.

Celerysteve Posted:

You’re just stretching the truth. It’s just not a good weapon. It’s a stick and that’s all.

We are not stretching the truth, we aren’t talking about backyard sticks, we are talking about crafted staffs, what you are doing would be the same as someone saying a mace is a bad weapon because holding a palm sized rock in their hands and hitting people with it (without throwing it) isn’t an improvement over, say, brbum knuckles. Their is a difference between a stick and a staff made to be a weapon. A big one.