Melee Weapon: Laser Blade

[val]

I've a way to make the laser blade work, if not as a melee weapon.

PHALAX already has infantry usable laser weapons.  Have a really long lasing chamber and capaciter mounted in a rod, with a simple switch trigger.  The user would squeeze the trigger, swing it around in a 45 degree horizontal(or vertical, or both) arc, then let go of the trigger.  The result is a laser "blade" that cuts aliens in half.
Of course maybe could let the aliens have a version of this first, then have the player reverse engineer it.

[Thrashard96]

It's just a lightsaber

[Sarin]

I've a way to make the laser blade work, if not as a melee weapon.

PHALAX already has infantry usable laser weapons.  Have a really long lasing chamber and capaciter mounted in a rod, with a simple switch trigger.  The user would squeeze the trigger, swing it around in a 45 degree horizontal(or vertical, or both) arc, then let go of the trigger.  The result is a laser "blade" that cuts aliens in half.
Of course maybe could let the aliens have a version of this first, then have the player reverse engineer it.

Well the problem of this configuration is it's too slow to use and bulky to be usable combat weapon.

[Lew Yard]

Seems strictly inferior to flamethrowers, concussion grenades, and shaped charges.

The "sabot adapter for plasma blade" idea I mentioned in another thread would be much more useful and much simpler to use and manufacture, methinks.

[Thrashard96]

Maybe df cartridge combined with a simple knife would make it a lightsaber/laser blade that cuts 2 squares in any direction and decrease chance of hitting that soldier?

[val]

Well, maybe my version is a prototype for the actually laser weapons and as such gets quickly replaced.

Also, ITS NOT A LIGHTSABER.  One, its as long as a spear, Two, it has a magazine limit, and Three, it doesn't have a range limit like a light saber.

I'd have cleared this up earlier but I don't know how to add pictures to my posts.