I made a tag group for weapons, both ranged weapons and melee weapons, visible here.

Or here, for quick analysis without leaving the window:

Please check if I did something incorrect or if something is missing.

These tags also (arguably) need an implication:
scythe -> polearm
energy sword -> sword
butterfly knife -> knife
grenade -> weapon
grenade launcher -> ranged weapon

Currently adding Wiki's for a lot of these weapons.

energy_sword should also imply energy_weapon.

HotUnderTheCollar said:
And not sure about railgun and raygun, they look very similar.

What are you talking about, they look nothing alike.

post #413015 This is a railgun, notice how it's large with a long, open rectangular prism barrel. It's built like this because it launches projectiles on a magnet rail.
post #685263 This is a raygun. They're equipped with discs along the barrel, which are either lenses for the laser, or conductive focuses for electricity. They tend to be short pistol-type guns.

Furrin_Gok said:

post #413015 This is a railgun, notice how it's large with a long, open rectangular prism barrel. It's built like this because it launches projectiles on a magnet rail.
post #685263 This is a raygun. They're equipped with discs along the barrel, which are either lenses for the laser, or conductive focuses for electricity. They tend to be short pistol-type guns.

Weren't railguns supposed to be large, mounted, futuristic cannons?

HotUnderTheCollar said:
Weren't railguns supposed to be large, mounted, futuristic cannons?

Not necessarily, railguns are generally all weapons that take a solid metal projectile and then accelerate said projectile through electromagnetic fields, kind of like the LHC or the pretty sweet railgun the US Navy has prototyped. However, there are also hand held models made by some fans (for example. The handheld ones obviously lack power because our batteries still suck balls for the demands, but that will likely change.

Past that, raygun on the other hand are generally plasma/energy weapons, they do not have a solid projectile but instead either superheated plasma or some other form of "energy".

So, to recap, railguns can be handheld, but while they are rather weak thanks to our currently bad batteries those limitations obviously don't exist in SciFi, games, books, and anything else like that (and might be solved in a decade or two for us as well).

I see. I remember them mainly as this.

HotUnderTheCollar said:
I see. I remember them mainly as this.

Yep, that's a railgun. The real-life prototype uses a four-sided magnetic launcher, which I suppose grants more stability(?), but the idea is based off of a two-sided one, which each side being a U-shape to hold a more disk-like projectile that fits into both sides to prevent it falling out. Such a launch would likely require less power, but you may be sacrificing some distance control over it. Still, it's probably better than the 30 Nautical Miles even if it doesn't match the 110.

The portable hand-held railguns would probably still be very hefty, thus being sized for two hands, and likely have a lot less range to them, but the concept is still the same: Launch the object via magnets.

Bump.

Some tags that might need implications at the top.

I've made the following changes:

• Implication: scythe -> polearm (approved)
• Implication: energy_sword -> sword (approved)
• Implication: butterfly_knife -> knife (approved)
• Implication: grenade -> weapon (approved)
• Implication: grenade_launcher -> ranged_weapon (approved)
• Implication: energy_sword -> energy_weapon (denied) - not in use

Also, nice work with that wiki :)

parasprite said:

Also, nice work with that wiki :)

:D

Should this tag group have terms like arm_cannon, bandolier, turret, etc. added to it?