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Melee Combat, little help here...
Rabidpancakes:
Ok,battle scenario. Man to Man aerial battle (Yes, they are flying) over large body of water. Evenly matched foes as far as strength, speed, and stamina are concerned. Mixed style martial arts. One protagonist trained in U.S. military hand to hand, Praying Mantis Kung-Fu, Basic Krav Maga, Hapkido, Judo, European Broadsword fighting. Antagonist trained in WWII Style Nazi SS Hand to Hand, Karate, Sambo, and European Fencing. Both are proficient with firearms, although that does not really matter here. Both have killed before. Neither have any remorse. They hate each other.
Wolfhowls:
Just go with straight brawl then. When stuff gets to fancy sometimes just the hate and rage can carry a fight. Who ever has the most wins. Just remember the times we got into brawls at the bars in Germany.
Rabidpancakes:
Bloody afairs with carnage and dead bodies everywhere! Wait, that was someplace else.
Bloody afairs with carnage and broken bottles everywhere. Drunks crying over spilled liquor. T'was sad. All those frothy heads of beer spilled recklessly on the filth floor by angry warriors itching for battle. Yep! thats more like it!
eviladam:
What's the voice of your narrator like? Is he an every man/ smart ass like Harry or more stoic and serious. For instance if you want to describe being placed in a hammer lock (wang chung in martail arts? i dunno) you could say something like "He did that damn wrestler move where he made my wrist touch my shoulder blade. Looks like it hurts on tv right? Guess what it does. And silly me I didn't know the counter for it."
I dunno that's just what popped into my head. Feel free to steal it or completelly disregard it.
ballplayer72:
--- Quote from: Rabidpancakes on July 16, 2007, 12:54:48 AM ---Ok,battle scenario. Man to Man aerial battle (Yes, they are flying) over large body of water. Evenly matched foes as far as strength, speed, and stamina are concerned. Mixed style martial arts. One protagonist trained in U.S. military hand to hand, Praying Mantis Kung-Fu, Basic Krav Maga, Hapkido, Judo, European Broadsword fighting. Antagonist trained in WWII Style Nazi SS Hand to Hand, Karate, Sambo, and European Fencing. Both are proficient with firearms, although that does not really matter here. Both have killed before. Neither have any remorse. They hate each other.
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I would suggest watching a few episodes of DBZ.
Do an all out fight. Have them pound on each other until neither has anything left. Broken faces, hands, that sort of thing. Having either character actually take damage, instead of just getting a little bruised and tired, brings the reader into the moment more clearly. Unless your guy is superman or something. Then blood is bad, unless you have a way to explain it.
Don't think the swords could be reliably employed. The styles are so different, and the weapons not suited for each other. Broadsword is way heavy, and an epee is way light. Unless NAZI man is using a saber. Then it would even out.
gota have them fight to a standstill, then have one pull out the ace in the hole. One has to be better, for whatever reason.
Also, have you thought of whos going to win?
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