Bill Skinner
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I think I will cease with the negative vibes and concentrate on what she can do. What is the enemy's primary distance weapon? If it is bows, there have been several comments on sling verses bow. If it is javelins, a slinger will eat them for lunch. If they don't have any, their only hope is to rush the slinger and hope that someone will still be alive to close with her. Have you looked at the South Pacific warclubs? They are made of a dense wood, some are around 2m long and have fantastic carvings. They are used as a walking staff most of the time, in a fight, those carvings act as points and edges. If the enemy is not wearing gauntlets, a strike to the hand or forearm will cause great pain, probably disarm him, and possibly break bones, probably if it hits the hand, even through gauntlets.
FWIW The most decorated branch of pretty much every armed force is the medics and corpsmen. They are suspposed to run away and leave the wounded, Geneva Convention and all that, the enemy will take care of the wounded, all he has are defensive weapons, etc,etc...the fact is they don't abandon the wounded. They do things like take on guys with automatic weapons while all they have is a pistol, jump on grenades, things like that. Bill
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