Force De-Escalation (most to least powerful)

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Force De-Escalation taken to it’s logical extreme…

Inspired by the plethora of weapons-related threads recently, I figured it’d be an amusing take on those threads for us to list our personal idea of force de-escalation, IOW, "when X is banned, we’ll have to use “Y”, when “Y” is banned, we’ll have to use “Z”…

here’s my Force De-Escalation list;

Dalek Reality Bomb (destroys reality itself)
Planetary Disruption (Death Star, the Lexx, etc…)
Orbital Nuking (the only way to be sure)
ICBM bombardment
SLBM bombardment
Conventional airstrikes
Battlemechs (walking tanks)
Heavy Ground Assault
Conventional Firearms (automatic)
Conventional Firearms (Semiauto)
Conventional Firearms (Manual Action, revolver, bolt/lever action)
Conventional Firearms (Single-Shot)
Conventional Firearms (Black Powder)
Flamethrowers
Archery (Compound bows/crossbows)
Archery (Recurve)
Archery (longbow)
Blades (swords/knives)
Melee weapons (Staffs/Nunchukau/Tonfas/Clubs/other blunt-force trauma weapons)
Boards With Nails In Them
Pointed Sticks
Fresh Fruit
Harsh Language

What’s your list? Most to Least powerful

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What if the fruit was especially sharp?

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Why the heck are flamethrowers below single-shot firearms?

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It’d depend on the situation. They’ve got range on flamethrowers, but yeah I’d generally say a flamethrower is more destructive.

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I’m going to say, you piss me off, I kill you.

After that, your planets destruction doesn’t mean much any more.

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mmm pumpkin pie :slight_smile:

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Missed a few. I also replaced a couple.

Dalek Reality Bomb (destroys reality itself)
Planetary Disruption (Death Star, the Lexx, etc…)
Gridfire
Orbital Nuking (the only way to be sure)
Lazy Gun
ICBM bombardment
SLBM bombardment
Conventional airstrikes
Heavy Ground Assault
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
Conventional Firearms (automatic)
Conventional Firearms (Semiauto)
Knife missile
Conventional Firearms (Manual Action, revolver, bolt/lever action)
Conventional Firearms (Single-Shot)
Conventional Firearms (Black Powder)
Trebuchet
Archery (Compound bows/crossbows)
Archery (Recurve)
Archery (longbow)
Boiling oil
Blades (swords/knives)
Melee weapons (Staffs/Nunchukau/Tonfas/Clubs/other blunt-force trauma weapons)
Boards With Nails In Them
Pointed Sticks
Rocks
Indian burns
Can of RAID
Fresh Fruit
Cow bite
Harsh Language
The Look

Yes, I’m an Iain M. Banks fan.

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And extending it a bit:

Soft Language
Handshake
Hug

…for is not love also a weapon?

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G’evening

Ah, but would that not go at the top of the list?

—Jesse Leigh

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I’d put gridfire above planetary disruption. And knife missles deserve a bump too. My modified and added to version of your list :

Dalek Reality Bomb (destroys reality itself)
The Deplorable End - press the button, a new Big Bang destroys the universe
Core Implosion Device - galaxy physically destroyed
Suicide Night - every sentient creature ( outside of bandersnatchi ) in the galaxy dies
Gridfire
Stellar detonation weapons - the Sun Crusher and so on
Planetary Disruption (Death Star, the Lexx, etc…)
Orbital Nuking (the only way to be sure)
Lazy Gun
ICBM bombardment
High Mark Bolo
SLBM bombardment
Low Mark Bolo
Apocolypse Troll “blaster” - a handgun with kilotons-per-second firepower
Conventional airstrikes
Manticoran Marines in powered armor
Knife missile
Heavy Ground Assault
Tribarrel
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
Conventional Firearms (automatic)
Conventional Firearms (Semiauto)
Conventional Firearms (Manual Action, revolver, bolt/lever action)
Conventional Firearms (Single-Shot)
Conventional Firearms (Black Powder)
Trebuchet
Archery (Compound bows/crossbows)
Archery (Recurve)
Archery (longbow)
Boiling oil
The Pen That Is Mightier Than The Sword - naturally has to go above blades
Blades (swords/knives)
Melee weapons (Staffs/Nunchukau/Tonfas/Clubs/other blunt-force trauma weapons)
Boards With Nails In Them
Pointed Sticks
Rocks
Indian burns
Can of RAID
Fresh Fruit
Cow bite
Harsh Language
The Look

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So that’s how we can take care of those troublemaking writers! Boiling oil, I never would have guessed.

Valete,
Vox Imperatoris

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Yoda
Anakin Skywalker
Palpatine
Obi wan Kenobi
Dooku
Luke Skywalker

Wait, what was it you meant again??

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Um…I seem to recall Palpatine winning his fight with Yoda.

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Chuck Norris should be on top

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Mr Rodgers
Chuck Norris
The Tangle (destroys reality retroactively back to creation)
Dalek Reality Bomb (destroys reality itself)
The Deplorable End - press the button, a new Big Bang destroys the universe
Core Implosion Device - galaxy physically destroyed
Suicide Night - every sentient creature ( outside of bandersnatchi ) in the galaxy dies
Gridfire
Stellar detonation weapons - the Sun Crusher and so on
Planetary Disruption (Death Star, the Lexx, etc…)
Orbital Nuking (the only way to be sure)
Batman (prepared)
Batman (didn’t see it coming)
Lazy Gun
ICBM bombardment
High Mark Bolo
SLBM bombardment
Low Mark Bolo
Apocolypse Troll “blaster” - a handgun with kilotons-per-second firepower
Conventional airstrikes
Manticoran Marines in powered armor
Knife missile
Heavy Ground Assault
Tribarrel
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
Star Trek phasers
That trick Bug Bunny does where he puts his finger in the end of the gun barrel
Conventional Firearms (automatic)
Conventional Firearms (Semiauto)
Conventional Firearms (Manual Action, revolver, bolt/lever action)
Conventional Firearms (Single-Shot)
Conventional Firearms (Black Powder)
Trebuchet
Archery (Compound bows/crossbows)
Archery (Recurve)
Archery (longbow)
Boiling oil
The Pen That Is Mightier Than The Sword - naturally has to go above blades
Blades (swords/knives)
Melee weapons (Staffs/Nunchukau/Tonfas/Clubs/other blunt-force trauma weapons)
Kung Fu
Boards With Nails In Them
Pointed Sticks
Rocks
Indian burns
Can of RAID
Fresh Fruit
Cow bite
A Hawaiian Punch
Harsh Language
A stern talking to
The Look
UN resolution
Soft Language
Handshake
Hug

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Yeah, but Yoda Trained Obi wan, Who trained Anakin, who kicked Palpatines ass.

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Trying to reduce the level of force to zero.

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On the low end of the spectrum,

A bumper sticker saying “don’t make me get all Ned Flanders on your ass”

or this one perhaps

WWNFD?..what would ned flanders do?

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Mr Rodgers
Chuck Norris
The Tangle (destroys reality retroactively back to creation)
Dalek Reality Bomb (destroys reality itself)
The Deplorable End - press the button, a new Big Bang destroys the universe
Core Implosion Device - galaxy physically destroyed
Suicide Night - every sentient creature ( outside of bandersnatchi ) in the galaxy dies
Gridfire
Stellar detonation weapons - the Sun Crusher and so on
Planetary Disruption (Death Star, the Lexx, etc…)
Planetary crust obliterated (=superthorough Orbital Nuking): Battle Beyond the Stars, Saberhagen’s Berserkers, etc.
Orbital Nuking (the only way to be sure)
Batman (prepared)
Batman (didn’t see it coming)
Lazy Gun
ICBM bombardment
High Mark Bolo
SLBM bombardment
Low Mark Bolo
Apocolypse Troll “blaster” - a handgun with kilotons-per-second firepower
Conventional airstrikes
Manticoran Marines in powered armor
Knife missile
Heavy Ground Assault
Tribarrel
Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range
Star Trek phasers
That trick Bug Bunny does where he puts his finger in the end of the gun barrel
Conventional Firearms (automatic)
Conventional Firearms (Semiauto)
Conventional Firearms (Manual Action, revolver, bolt/lever action)
Conventional Firearms (Single-Shot)
Conventional Firearms (Black Powder)
Trebuchet
Archery (Compound bows/crossbows)
Archery (Recurve)
Archery (longbow)
Boiling oil
The Pen That Is Mightier Than The Sword - naturally has to go above blades
Blades (swords/knives)
Melee weapons (Staffs/Nunchukau/Tonfas/Clubs/other blunt-force trauma weapons)
Kung Fu
Boards With Nails In Them
Pointed Sticks
Rocks
Indian burns
Can of RAID
Fresh Fruit
Cow bite
A Hawaiian Punch
Harsh Language
A stern talking to
The Look
UN resolution
Soft Language
Handshake
Hug

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A Møøse Bite (They Kan be pretti nasti!)
Cow bite
A Hawaiian Punch
Harsh Language
A stern talking to
The Look
UN resolution
Soft Language
Handshake
Hug
Evil thoughts

Oh and on the flamethrower thing, I was thinking they had the range advantage, but they actually do have greater, errr, firepower (no pun intended…) than gunpowder based weapons