Now I am upset that the Katar in Elden Ring doesn't have the gun part.
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Sounds a bit Bloodborne
That might be the first potentially effective combination gun/knife I’ve ever heard of. Though I don’t know much about push knives save that they weren’t particularly common.
From what I remember shorter Katars were basically anti-armor weapons. You could put in a lot of force and essentially "punch" the blade through chainmail. Although a lot of the fancier ones, like this, were mainly status symbols.
Struggling to see how this knife design could be an advantage in most circumstances:
- Very little space behind blade for tang- likely to break off from mount
- weapon takes up a great deal of space when not in use (for any weapon, you're normally carrying it rather than using it than 95% of the time you have it with you)
- compels user to adopt only a single grip requiring significant grip strength simply in order to punch with sufficient force whilst not breaking your wrist
Surely when it comes to armour piercing something like a stiletto would be much better
Gods damn that thing looks cool
Looks like the inspiration for the Diablo 2 katar.
Without the pistols, that is.
A Katar that goes blam. A Kablam.