From Spear and Ax to Bayonet and Guillotine
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During the mall arc, Kouta jury-rigs a spike bayonet for Takashi's shotgun from some bicycle parts, but warns him that it will probably break easily. And sure enough, It Only Works Once. Father Anderson in Hellsing uses unlimited supplies of blessed bayonets as weapons. No guns, just the bayonets. And oddly enough for somebody who uses bayonets as regular knives, they're all socket bayonets. Triela has one either attached to her Winchester Trench Gun or sheathed at her waist with her size making it a virtual sword. Various mobile suits from the Gundam metaseries use bayonets, sometimes solid and sometimes beam , and occasionally removable to serve as an extra melee weapon.
Some MS such as the Zeta Gundam can generate a beam blade from the barrel of their rifles, saving on space.
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A unique example is the Gundam GP01 from Gundam , which has a beam rifle with a "beam jitte", essentially just a small V-shaped beam blade mounted beneath the barrel, allowing it to block enemy beam sabers without having to draw its own. In Rurouni Kenshin , Hyogo Kujiranami has a rather large compared to normal people bayonet attached to his already deadly Custom Made Grenade Launcher Is literally called like than in the manga. Karen Lo's unique fighting style from Jormungand makes use of dual pistol bayonets.
She was taught this style by Chen Guoming, who used said technique to massacre Valmet's squad years ago in Africa. There is a basis for this however. See the Real Life section below for some actual examples of pistol bayonets. Shino Kuribayashi in Gate is a big proponent of this tactic, though she often is much too enthusiastic in bayoneting an armored opponent, sometimes even breaking a bayonet on her Howa type Mumei's dual sawn-off shotguns in Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress have folding bayonets, although the iron skin of the Kabane means it is mostly only effective at taking off their heads.
However, once she gets the blades coated in refined Kabane skin they become strong enough to break even the Kabane's iron-clad hearts. Yazoo and Loz's gunblades , the Velvet Nightmares, use the "molded onto the barrel" form of this trope. Unusually for this variation, they're still used in the manner of proper bayonets: Bonvi has frequently used bayonets for black comedy in his comic Sturmtruppen.
The most egregious example is given by "Air-Headed Franz". When he's introduced, he waves the gun while saying "But don't ask me why they call him Air-Headed " and stabs a nearby soldier in the eye. They eventually sign a petition for forcing him to remove the thing from his rifle. Prussia uses a sniper rifle with one attached as well. Ve're not scared of you! Look at you, you don't even know how to use a bayonet! It goes on ze gun, idiot! Advent Children , Yazoo's version of the Gunblade functions like this: Basically any period film that has firearms features this trope.
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It'd be easier to list only the unusual examples. Marines against invading aliens in Battle: Los Angeles during the climactic final battle. Used multiple times in Gods and Generals , which shouldn't be surprising given the time period. Stonewall Jackson calls for bayonets at Manassas, then during the flanking march to Chancellorsville threatens to have stragglers bayoneted.
Also features in a climactic moment in Gettysburg , in a Moment of Awesome tactical thinking by Col. Used to be a WW2 movie cliche — the scene where the Nazi guards would be shoving their bayonets into a hay bale where the hero was hiding. In the series, as it's still the era of pike and shot see under Real Life below down-timers are initially sceptical about the usefulness of bayonets. There is a conversation with a Scottish mercenary in which he's eventually persuaded that 'that wee knife' becomes more useful in battle than dedicated pikemen, because faster-reloading firearms changes the dynamics of a battlefield.
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In Safehold , rifle with bayonet eventually becomes a weapon of choice for Imperial Charisian Army. With a little help of old Earth's libraries, they create a tactics for them that make them nigh-unstoppable in battle - it's said that any Charisian force can take on four times as big Temple Loyalist unit and win. Considering The Powder Mage Trilogy is set in a time period roughly corresponding to 18th century Europe, it's hardly surprising that this trope crops up.
Muskets with bayonets are the standard weapon for the armies in the setting and are used with gruesome efficiency. When massed, they even prove effective even against Wardens , which are nigh-unstoppable, sorcery-warped supersoldiers, specifically designed to combat the titular Powder Mages. Alphonso "Mack" Mackenzie uses a shotgun with an axe-head on the tip, which he can also turn around to act as a proper bayonet with the pointed hook. Corporal Jones was always advocating the use of the bayonet — see the page quote. Playedfor Laughs when they tried to adapt his van working as a makeshift armoured car to run on literal gas, stored in a bag attached the roof.
And the order was given to point the guns upwards through the openings in said roof As attachments for the musket of the musketeer and the AK of the Taliban. Seen occasionally in Sharpe. The elite Rifles use longer bayonets for their weapons, which must be referred to when deployed as "fix swords!
Rifle units were issued longer sword bayonets so that the length of their weapons matched that of regular infantry muskets so that the two different units could work together in formations Though we've never seen the bayonet used in Stargate SG-1 attached to a rifle, the handy thing about modern bayonets is that they work just as well as knives. Seen in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode " Blood Oath ". Jadzia and the Klingon swordmasters Kor, Kang, and Koloth attack the stronghold of a crime lord who killed the Klingons' firstborn, one of whom was also the godson of the Dax symbiont's previous host.
They use technobabble to disable the mooks ' energy weapons, and the crime boss orders them to mount bayonets. The defense proves lethal to Kang and Koloth. Band of Brothers features a badass bayonet charge across a field in Holland. Bull Randleman also duels a German soldier with his bayonet in reality he was involved in two bayonet duels during the war.
Played for Laughs and absurdism in Generation Kill ; one of the many, many blunders of Captain America includes charging into an empty airfield with his bayonet, to general dismay. He's got his fucking bayonet out.
What is the purposes of the bayonet? I didn't know I had the girls' platoon today. What is the purpose of the bayonet? Some systems allow you to fix bayonets as a standard action. This turned their crossbow into the statistical equivalent of a shortspear or spear, respectively, at the cost of -4 to their attack rolls for lack of weapon proficiency.
Oh, and you can still fire the crossbow without fouling either the bolt or the bayonet. This being Paranoia , it breaks the rifle which was designed to be used as, y'know, a rifle , not withstand being banged around like a sword or club. It's also worth noting that despite the name, a cone rifle is actually closer to a bazooka in size. While not commonly seen on the battlefields of the 41st Millennium, many patterns of bolt weaponry used by the Adeptus Astartes , particularly those that date from the era of the Great Crusade, have bayonet attachments that some of the more aggressive Chapters still utilise.
The style of blade used as a bayonet varies and can range from monomolecular combat blades to small chainblades. The silver bayonet the "straight silver" is one of the symbols of the Tanith First Imperial Guard regiment. Imperial Guard's standard-issue lasguns are regularly depicted with bayonets fixed in the tabletop though actual gameplay statistics make it rare for the Puny Earthling Guardsmen having to use them actually win against their usually exotically physically-capable alien opponents - the Tanith First in particular frequently fight against other more or less bog-standard human beings serving Chaos when the odds of this are much less likely for the Imperial Guard in the tabletop.
Chainsaw bayonets are most popular as an attachment for double-barreled fully-automatic armor-piercing rocket-propelled grenade launcher flamethrowers as used by Chaos Space Marine Terminators, but definitely show up elsewhere as well. Drukhari warriors have mono molecular ones at the ends of their splinter rifles. Gauss Flayers used by Necron warriors have not a bayonet blade but an axe one under their barrels. Orks guns don't usually have bayonets, since they're so covered in spiky bits that they're not needed.
Ogryns use specially-designed shotguns that are meant to be used as clubs, often upgraded by adding huge power bayonets an energy field that desintegrates everything it goes through, used as melee anti-tank weapons. In game terms these combat blades gave the wielder a re-roll to wound when they charged. Bayonets are cheap, commonly available accessories for a gun. There is no mounting requirement listed. More notably, they can be carried and used as standard knives and do substantially more damage 9 points maximum than the basic knife 5 points maximum in 2nd Edition while weighing the same amount.
By-the-rulebook GMs might find themselves with player characters mounting bayonets on any available firearm to justify having the stronger bayonet in a fight. Not unusual, except that it has attached rockets, so that it can be fired at the enemy to kill them a little further than normal stabbing would allow. Recover the bayonet, fix it again, and it's ready to continue the slaughter. Mutant Chronicles features both the "underslung chainsaw"- and knife-on-a-gun variants. The Dark Legion tend not to use them, but their weapons come pre-spikified , so that's okay.
When attached to his Midak Skyblaster , he can simultaneously shoot Light and Ice. British firm Airfix pioneered sets of even smaller one inch tall toy soldiers, that came with infantry figures to a box. Without exception, any set of figures depicting soldiers of the rifle age will have a goodly number posed aggressively with fixed bayonets. Napoleonic-era sets always have figures posed as kneeling and presenting fixed bayonets to ward off cavalry attacks, or to build an infantry square with.
You could get a bayonet attachment for the bolt-action rifles, the M1 Garand, the M shotgun, and the Type It gave you a much longer melee range, at the expense of a longer melee recovery time. One oddity about the melee on the shotgun was that it would gib enemies, while other bayonets would not do the same.
Japanese soldiers equipped with the first two will try to attack you with the bayonets. Battlefield 1 gives the option of mounting bayonets for rifles, shotguns, and submachine guns. When equipped, the player can perform a charge to either instantly kill an enemy including including the otherwise incredibly durable Elite Classes or quickly cross open ground to new cover, in exchange for increasing the time it takes to fire from sprint and recover from recoil. Ninja Gaiden Xbox has mooks will use bayonets on their rifles if you will come too close to them.
Some of them will pierce you, lift your body in the air and THEN shoot the rifle.
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Brawl has Wolf, whose blaster has a claw on the end of it that can deal an extra hit in addition to the fired shot. Imperial monks' rifles are equipped with bayonets in Final Fantasy X though they never use them. In Parasite Eve 2 , one of the numerous attachments you could get for the assault-rifle was Considering that you could, instead, mount it with a flamethrower , a triple-size magazine, a giant Taser , or Frickin' Laser Beams , you probably won't use it.
Then that bayonet becomes a lifesaver which will carry you through the later half of the game. Brute weapons like the Spiker, Mauler and Brute Shot usually have blades attached. In Halo 2 , the reverse-end bayonet on the Brute Shot was the second best weapon at dismembering Flood forms and the second best melee weapon in multiplayer right behind the Energy Sword , and comes with the added bonus of not running out of charges.
Guardians 's Warzone allows you to attach energy bayonets to your basic loadout weapons. The original has a blade, though, but they crammed the chainsaw in when they discovered that the Locust were Made of Iron , and could just shrug off a regular bowie-knife bayonet. Gears of War 3 features regular bayonets on the older Pendulum war era variant of the Lancer, the Retro Lancer. At first look, the regular bayonet seems perfectly effective at killing Grubs , though that weakness of the bayonet may be considered to be represented by how the bayonet on the Retro Lancer cannot be used unless the player builds up enough momentum from charging for a few seconds - melee attacking with the Retro Lancer will have the player swing with the rifle's back end instead, and running into a target with the Retro Lancer charge's with insufficient momentum will be ineffective.
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Wings of Liberty had bayonets attached to their gauss rifles. The community did not approve. He brings out the bayonet and An early version of Doom includes the rifle's bayonet as the melee weapon. In the first-person areas of Banjo-Tooie , Kazooie can eventually learn the Beak Bayonet to perform an ammo-less melee attack. It's only used for one task, but it's useful in the first-person areas in general.
It's fairly effective against cavalry.
One disruptor has a wicked-looking blade permanently mounted under the barrel, as well as another serving as the trigger guard. They appear to be purely cosmetic, and Klingon warriors are all carrying swords anyway. Saika Magoichi of Samurai Warriors has a bayonet on his arquebus. The blades get bigger and bigger as his weapons get better. The way he uses it, it's as much a sword as it is a gun. Total War bayonets are a technology that can be researched. First plug bayonets, which can be fixed but prevent firing the weapon, then ring and socket bayonets.
Each increase the melee ability of line infantry substantially. Another technology increases damage for bayonet charges. The description states that the musketeers are simply drilled now to charge with the bayonets held at waist height instead of head height, as one would with a spear. Stopping a cavalry charge, however, requires the use of the square formation, allowing the unit to defend all angles and brace the bayonets.
Despite this, several melee units in the game can be more effective than musketeers, if they can get close without being battered down by volleys, that is. The Indian Gurkhas with their kukri swords can easily cut up a squad of professional musketeers Haken Browning of Endless Frontier wields the Night Fowl assault rifle with an underslung pile-driver below the rifle's barrel in place a normal bayonet. However, the actual bayonet is a fold-out variant built into the stock of the rifle.
Project Reality features this as one of several melee combat options depending on class and weapon. Because of limitations with the game engine, you have to switch to it like if it is a separate weapon, opposed to being able to use it while still being able to fire your gun. Hakai-hen carries the Bayonet Spiker, where its handheld gun emits an energy-variant of a bayonet.
The M5A2 Carbine from Resistance 3 has a bayonet as its first upgrade. Andrew of Samurai Shodown wields a rifle with a large bayonet as his weapon. His fighting style is described as "Bayonet drills handed down through the family lineage for generations", and his moveset largely revolves around the bayonet as his primary weapon rather than the actual gun itself. Several weapons in Brink feature a bayonet as a possible customization; equipping it improves melee power, but melee strikes will no longer knock enemies down.
Borderlands features handguns with huge blades attached to them that increase melee damage, though the animation is a slash rather than a stab which is fairly inconvenient, as it doubles the melee animation length for no bonuses. Write a customer review. Showing of 1 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now.
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