Let's not get bogged down by tech, and just assume a roughly late medieval tier metallurgy.How do you think would different fantasy physiologies affect the weapons they use (or others use against them)? Most settings seem to just give other races mostly normal human weaponry and armour while giving them some more unified visual theme, without really considering the efficacy of the equpment in their hands.Take dwarves for example. Short stature, bulky builds, high strength and endurance. Would poor reach and short arms make swung weapons ineffective? Would they need to rely exclusively on polearms if they were put against normal sized humans?What about giant races, say 3 metre tall humanoids, what would be the most effective way for them to fight against normal sized people?
>>65166641My fat, throbbing, hairy, uncircumcised human cock. Every elf, dwarf, halfling, orc, and whatever other godless commie races there are will be brought into the light of civilization through the thorough and relentless dicking of their women (and their effeminate, hairless men, in the case of elves). And maybe a Maxim gun and a Webley for old time's sake. This also applies to any alien bastards that have the misfortune to show up on earth.
>>65166654Why do you hate fun.
>>65167170because I used to be a fa/tg/uy and this tread belongs therenow get bent you subcontinental wazuk
>dwarfHeavy axes/hammer/pickaxe whatever can cope with lack of speed with a heavier blade>ElfsBows and short blades i guess>GnomesMoney, scheming, dishonesty, deception,...>OrcsClubs
>>65166641Dwarfs would definitely use polearms. Probably also bows and crossbows what with their strong arms.Giants could use basically any normal striking melee weapon, albeit making a steel sword or axeblade in their size would be tricky. Maybe it would be cast from bronze. Thrusting weapons less effective (can only hit one target) unless fighting other giants. Assuming sufficient size and human sized enemies, a giant wood club would even be effective. Would also use massive shields and just push smaller foes around, which also serves to make them basically invincible. Hard to imagine how you could defeat a shield wall of 3 metre giants with scutum shields.Elves are either, depening on the source, something like more dextrous humans, in which case they would use mostly the same weaponry except maybe with a stronger focus on swords, or dextrous but weaker humans, in which case they would suffer tremendously (hard to wear armour, hard to penetrate armour) and would go for windlass crossbows and fortifications. They would likely be beaten by humans or dwarves though.Halflings are just fucked and would become subjects to martially capable people.
>>65167218Arms are too short for bows.
>>65167463Bows can be arbitrarily small and strong.
>humansspears>dwarvesspears>elvesspears>orcsspears>lizardmenspears
>>65166641>dwarfStraight up why even fight? Just build your tunnel too small for humans to enter, pump gas from the mines (or just smoke) into it, your mountain is unassailable.
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>>65168580yeah, it's unassailable because it's full of deadly gas and everyone inside is dead
>>65166896>Sleeping on effeminate male halflings
>>65167218>Hard to imagine how you could defeat a shield wall of 3 metre giants with scutum shieldsdig a hole, fill ìt with pointy stick, tar and oillead the giants inside the hole, set them on fire.route out the rest with heavy cavalry.harrass them with multiple waves of light cavalry until they are gassed out then charge em with heavy cavalry.war elephants specialy breed for their size,balistas, formation of men using long and pointy sticks to grab their foot and disrupt their formation.Lead them inside marsh lands were they are going to be limited in manueverability, tin their numbers with volleys of arrows, poison their water sources,...
>>65167218>Hard to imagine how you could defeat a shield wall of 3 metre giants with scutum shieldsWhy even bother with a weapon at this point. Just give them massive shields, add some spikes onto them, and just have them ram enemy units. They're protected from arrows, their size means they're significantly faster than other infantry, and I can't see any cavalry charge into what's essentially just a huge spiked wall. Other than siege weapons, I don't see how could anyone easily counter it.Actually I can see humans using some sort of greek fire as a counter. I wonder if that could be effective.
>>65169025....sure, if your mountain home is the one entrance tunnel. Seems pretty easy to just slap a wood door on that bad boy and have a proper gas chamber.
>>65169065>A lot of words coming from a yappy member of that midget sppecies who are already indentured as slaves to giants.There is endless circles that can be spun around how people interpret fantasy races as being on a grainular level so just deciding how low or high or big or magical such and such thing is makes for half the battle when talking shop on fantasy fight stuff but at least when we're on the topic of extrapolating fantasy races to be realistic Giants would not be constrained to living as singular camping cliques of cavemen. Not even real cavemen lived like cavemen. The giants would have humans out of the mountain areas they live in just fine, there would be able bodied child and intermediate teen giants roaming around living at nearer to human scale to also be needing to contend with kicking down your village's celler doors or a fair few of the nooks you though you could hide in. If they're strong enough to lift a boulder that proportionally sized humans couldn't dream of lifting then they can damn layer themselves in armours of such thickness that it is beyond the strength of any medieval weapon to penetrate, or Giant boots.
>>65169515>A lot of word-ackif you have to exterminate the giants you target, their food, their children, and women.it doesnt matter if it require fire, poison or disease.we are adept at exterminating and extinguishing other species
>>65169524Human exceptionalism like that would not exist in a universe where there are various kinds humans+ actively present. You say attack the crops and whatnot as if that isn’t litterally how humans have already been in contests with other humans for all time as is.>Target the women.A she-giant is going to be similarly hard to overcome as the guys >The childrenYoung giants are going to have super strength in comparison to people.>Other methods.They are going to be living in settlements, they will protect their crops and herds from you by those same methods right back at you and again, if giants are not literally stomping humans they will be home basing themselves in mountains defensively with fucking giant rust base walls of rocks and shit Also frankly the notion of giving giants terminal sickness from interacting with guys who have the sniffles strikes me a deeply uphill battle as well with a how lot of giants already along with the superstrength have an implict superhuman constitution and hardiness to them to match with living out in the woods eating rotten shit and generally being pretty exposed to the elements.
>>65169524>Humans are [adept at exterminating] and that will give the leg up over the fantasy race.Your post is just a no offence invoking raceplay self pick up mantra and also just pretty dumb. You're invoking that a fantasy world's population are going to be brain-dead and unable to adapt or reply in kind or something and that apparently only humans are capable of waging wars or doing harm in a manner that isn't standing in a row and smacking one another. Humans 'should' be extinct or thoroughly range constrained in a fantasy setting where 5+ other flavors of specialized Human equivalents or more plus monsters, Dwarves settle mountains, Some manner of gribbly goblin buggers reside in swamps, elves would frankly be the upper caste ruling 'over' all of the others and have deep wood kingdoms and Orcs basically would be mangling any attempt at humans to be nomadic herder peoples. Hobbits and kobolds probably would make better metropolitan underclasses as well. If you expand things out further still, shallows all coastlines and big Delta rivers become contested spaces with Mer creatures, Little faeries and Ents/equivalental spirits would be giving actual teeth to the wilderness pushing back whenever one tries to clear-cut for otherwise viable farmland and extremophile environmental specialists pretty much impose a hard cutoff to where human 'can' live like there being desert attuned lizardmen in the Sararah.Ironically in most HFY masturbatory posts are written to be the exact way that they would also claim make elves irritating.>underdogs who are never or rarely allowed to lose>usually have some blessing by some god(s) to explain their being the best/main characters>somehow better at everything, even the things other races are expicitly said to be best at.>Whining and speeches about how shit life is yet how glorious humanity is in spite of it that we can endure any challange. If elves or dwarves do this they're identifed as haughty or stubborn.
>>65170966At the end of the day it depends on the population distribution. If every race "spawns" in every location equally, then humans are fucked, because they simply have no chance facing ogres or centaurs. If not, then big migrations will happen and world will find some kind of equilibrium, as "dominant" races will end up fighting mostly themselves. Like take up 14th century for example, tech available to Europeans at that times could be as well alien tech to 14thc stone age Malians, yet Europeans didn't rush to conquer them, simply because they barely knew that shit like sub-Saharan Africa existed, and well, distance factor.
>>65170479>giantsThey would be pretty slow.The bigger something gets the more of it's strength is needed to support it's own weight.
>>65171249yeah, which is why midgets are known for being the best sprinters
>>65171258Anon you do realize there is a difference between a malformed midget and a several meter tall giant? They would have longer legs but there is a size limit. You can't just scale up the human body infinitely.
