Sarduakar Art

[Acriku]

That was a very weird concept they had - hey I'm not complaining they did the job for me :)

[Anathema]

Why wouldn't fremen use rifles? In the book they used rockets and cannons.

[Acriku]

Eh? Which book? In the first 2 books that I have read completely they've used crysknives?

[Anathema]

They used rockets to attack a harvester (you know, the part where Paul is reunited with Gurney) and they used cannons to disable the emperors ship when they attacked Arakeen.

[Vanguard3000]

But they didn't use the rockets on people. They only used them to destroy the navigation components of the ships, to prevent them from taking off. They never used them on people.

[Anathema]

Why not? Anyway, the point was that they do use ordinary weapons, as knives aren't very effective against steel hulls.

[TMA_1]

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[Anathema]

Detail. Knives would still not be quite effective against it.

[TMA_1]

but it isnt apart of the Dune universe so its a worthless variable.

[TMA_1]

Also the main function of "primitive" weaponry. Thats what the baron called it. Was to force the atreides into the caves for an easy mop up. These old weapons seemed to be kinda un-chivalrous to people in the Dune universe. The weapons of the Dune universe and defenses they had made fighting very conventional. It turned fights into hand to hand combat. Las guns couldnt be used a lot because of shields, Tanks arent mentioned in the Dune books because infantry is favored to scour a planet or continant. War turned back to the "Time of the republic"

"A more civilized age" lol wink wink

[Anathema]

Duh! Don't you think anybody who read the book would know that ::)?

[TMA_1]

well from what you posted earlier you seemed pretty ignorant to that fact. lol tried to help ya out man! :)

[Anathema]

I meant that rifles would be almost worthless on any planet- except Dune. The worms make shields dangerous and are thus not used in the desert.

[TMA_1]

actually thats when las guns were put back to good use. Most of the time shielding was impossible for normal infantry. Fighting was on Dunes and on rock. So it was dangerous to use shields. Sardaukar are seen using las guns and also leto had one modified for his ornithopter.