Could you take on a raptor with a suit of platemail and a sword

[El_Machinae]

Yeah, it could be done. The trick would be to grab your sword with both hands, and weild it like a quarterstaff. Your intention would be to keep the sword in between you and it, and hopefully you would do enough ancilliary damage to get an advantage. You'd also want a secondary, small, weapon that you could use in a grapple.

I think it would have a tough time finding a weakness in plate armour, since the weaknesses are not similar to what a raptor would normally deal with.

 

[Shaihulud]

A UtahRaptor has a long tail to counterbalance itself. At approximately 8ft long and shorter than it is tall, it can't possibly turn around too fast even if it has super reflexes. It has 2 large eyes set on both side of its skull propably means that it is poor at judging distance. This means that it is an ambush predator, faster on the charge but unable to maneouvre around smaller prey.

The best way to take it out is propably with a long spear, try to circle around it and jab it in the side. Because it has poor depth perception, it might not be able to identify the jabbing action as a serious threat than a swinging action. its a smaller action, faster and prevent it from charging you knocking you over.

 

[Zelig]

also i think raptors would tend to go for disabling attacks, like hamstrings or achilles tendon so would need to know that i'm covered there.

Would raptors have a good idea of where to attack though? I don't think they encountered any humanoid-type creatures back when they were around to develop their instincts.

 

[Simon Darkshade]

With the build of Conan the Barbarian and the swordsmanship of Miyamoto Musashi and Rand Al'Thor, yes.

The more pressing question is whether I would take on a suit of plate mail and a sword with a Raptor (F-22)

I'm not yet too sure, but I'm tending towards yes...

 

[Archbob]

also, i'm assuming that i'm wearing the plate mail and bearing the sword, rather than the raptor. the thread topic is kind of ambiguous on that front. If the raptor was wearing plate mail and somehow wielding a sword, i'd have not a hope at all.

If this was the case, I could easily destroy the raptor as:
1) it wouldn't be able to move
2) Raptors can't really grip swords that well

Of course I would be the one with the platemail and sword.

I wouldn't need either of course, I'm a level 30 Archmage. One fireblast and it'd be fried raptor for dinner.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'd rather be sitting in the arena seats, next to Baron Harkonnen.

 

[JoeM]

I'd pay twice as much as the Harrison v. Williams fight to see that. No more.

 

[Archbob]

Hopefully it'll be more exciting than the 60 second fight when Tyson first came back.

 

[JoeM]

And though it would last a single round I'd be entertained ten times as much.

 

[SeleucusNicator]

Having eaten both Alligator and Chicken, two dinosaur relatives, I can feel free to speculate that dinosaur would taste very good.

Also, a while back a bunch of scientists built a robotic Velociraptor leg and ran some tests, and found out that the claw was not good for disembowling. Rather, it was probably used to repeatedly stab its victim to death, much like a human murderer would use a knife.

 

[Archbob]

I think prisoners on death row who have failed in all appeals should be excuted in gladiator rings in bouts with furious cloned animals from the past. I'd love to see someone fight that giant bird thing from the Miocene.

But then I'm just a sick bastard I guess.

 

[JoeM]

No, no. All crimes should become punishable by circus cannon.

You vary the target depending on the severity of the crime, e.g. time-wasting illegal immigrants get fired into the Atlantic, people traffickers - France (no helmet), murderers - a wall.

Civil law punishments take the form of shoe-shining - similar to community service for graffitii, but also handed out to everyone in advertising.

Parking offence - 1 week, Marketing executive - 2 years...you get the picture.

 

[Till]

I think prisoners on death row who have failed in all appeals should be excuted in gladiator rings in bouts with furious cloned animals from the past. I'd love to see someone fight that giant bird thing from the Miocene.

But then I'm just a sick bastard I guess.

Yes you are. Wait until PETA hears about your idea!

 

[Kyriakos]

The same legal system could include occasional (to be decided by prison death lottery) arena duels between prisonners who have decided to appeal their death row verdict; if one doesnt appeal it, again to be decided by lottery, there should be a chance that the verdict gets altered to life imprisonement. Penal collony rules, bread and shows for the masses.

 

[RoddyVR]

this is the BEST thread.
i'm in a good mood so i'm entertained easily, but all these made me laugh out loud:
"My plan would consist of, "not dying" "
....."Utahraptors are just worse."
"I don't know about you, but I have very little experience wielding a sword while being weighted down by plate armor." Me too.
"Have you more experience wielding a sword while NOT being weighted down by plate armor?" ummmm.... no not much. great line.
"it dies of being food poisoned or at least vomits you up in response to poison being in its system" another briliant fail proof strategy
also, i'm assuming that i'm wearing the plate mail and bearing the sword, rather than the raptor. that immage in my head.... :rofl:
But the body in the oven. Make it run a little, let it stew a bit...
YOu don't need a weapon: just sneeze on them!.......Just don't let them sneeze on you... you have to consider the timeframes involved though....


as for me, i dont think i'd want to take on a dinosaur of any type. i'm more likely to try to get an egg and hatch and raise it as a pet.

 

[Archbob]

Yes you are. Wait until PETA hears about your idea!

PET aside, I think it is a good way to fate the people on death row. They have hurt society in a horrible way, therefore they should provide some entertainment to us before they die.

 

[Joeb WK]

Hmm I can't imagine any raptor would want to eat me if I had armour on.

 

[~Corsair#01~]

If I had a good strong shield, I may have a chance. With just a sword, utterly hopeless. Platemail would be pretty worthless, I'd much rather have something lightweight, with a shield.

My only real hope would be if the raptor got exhausted or lost interest. I'd never have the physical strength to kill a raptor with just a sword.

EDIT- But really, I'd be dead in like 5 seconds.

 

[Archbob]

What if you had a magic sceptre that could turn the raptor into a meat eating bunny?

 

[WillJ]

Could you take on a raptor with a suit of platemail and a sword

I can't even take on an unarmed raptor. How the hell am I supposed to take on a raptor that has a suit of platemail and a sword?

You see, that's what you call a "misplaced modifier." English 101.