/tg/, how do I effectively combat skeletons?

>>46097490
Remember that his weapon is just there to distract you. Use bludgeoning weapon!

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>>46097490
Blunt weapon types, holy damage type and focus on disabling movement so you can coupe de grace them at your leisure rather than battlefield destruction.
Tactics are trickier. They can attack in swarms, coordinated elite groups or single superhuman warriors. Funneling the prior two into killzones and trapping the latter is effective.
Removing the skull is not automatically lethal but is usually highly disruptive to the skeleton and massively weakens their combat potential.
Avoid fights if you can assassinate their summoner. Focus down the necromancer if possible.

Get a big fuckin' hammer, aim for the head and/or shoulders. Can't kill you so easily if they can't even hold a weapon.

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By avoiding weapons with any sort of gap between the crucial pointy bits

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Consider consecrating the site the skeletons are on. It may well weaken them, and if not then spending a couple minutes in prayer while sprinkling holy water isn't the worst failed experiment in the history of PCs.

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>HA! YOU THOUGHT THAT LOCKED DOOR WAS GOING TO KEEP ME OUT FOR LONG?
>NOW GET IN THE- WAIT. THE FUCK ARE YOU LOOKING AT?
>THE FUCK IS WITH THIS "BATTLE" BULLSHIT?!
>YOU REALLY THINK THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT ME? CUTE.
>NOW YOU'RE GOING IN THE EXTRA SMALL BAG FOR BEING A CUNT.

>>46099642
But I'm not dead yet!

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>>46099642
Hah, two can play that game!

>>46099514
>everyone else in that picture has a blunt weapon in hand

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>>46097490
Eliminate milk in your diet.

>>46099514
Wouldn't twisting that pitchfork me incredibly effective?

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>>46097490
Make sure to dodge their tempting goblet.

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>>46100074
At snapping the pitchfork yes well unless it was a vegan's skelly

>>46097490
MACE
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>>46097490
Aspergillum

its like a mace, but full of holy shit

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protip: hit them until they undie

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>>46100167

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With diplomacy

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>>46101720
It's highly effective.

>>46099799
Except the one guy dual wielding candles.

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An open, yet firm back hand across the face is enough to put even the most chattery of skeli-hos back in their place.

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>>46101773
Because candles are totally a piercing weapon?

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>>46101773
By Souls logic that'd be the most useful of the weapons. Why does some games make skeletons weak against fire, they're 0% flammable. Then again, I guess it's mostly "Undead" being weak to fire and not making skeletons an exception.

>>46101335
>Not using Explosive Rivet or Magickal Gleam to kill those skeletons.

Disgusting.

Bash it, once it's on the ground, take the spinal column so it can't come back

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>>46097543
This is objectively the right answer.

>>46101335
Man, the PC port looks so goddamned crisp.
>>46101913
Fiighter's don't need no magicky himiny-jiminy, anon.
Also
>Not using Ricochet Hunter instead of EITHER Rivet or Gleam
It's a tight corridor, anon. And that's where Elder Ogres spawn, as well.
Also also, WOLVES HUNT IN PACKS, ARISEN!

>>46102725
The problem with the Riccohet in that hallway on the skeletons is that they love to bounce the long way instead and end up in a different hall. Not bad for the Ogres, but for the skeletons just that much faster to Gleam and Rivet.

>>46103080
There's also the exploding barrel right there, then Immolate and climb on the Brute and Thousand Kiss it's dome.

>>46103161
Immolate kills on Daimon always make my giggle for some reason.

>>46097490
>combat
You are looking at something that weight less than 10 kg.

>>46103905
>Skeleton army easily defeated by peasants lifting them and snapping the spines
>Peasants take the weapons and riot because the kingdom didn't warn them that skeletons are weak as fuck and don't have any strength to their swings anyways

Stop drinking milk.

>>46097490
Give them weed.

>>46097490
Before you can fight the skeletons on the outside, first you must overcome the skeleton that resides within.

>>46103905
Hmm... That's true isn't it?

And yet they are usually portrayed as having the same level of strength as a grown man.

That means skeletons can jump like motherfuckers....

I never thought of that.

>>46097490
Osteoporosis

>>46105439
Is that true though? I can throw a balled up scrap of paper with the same force as a baseball, but it won't go as far.

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>>46101720

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>>46101745
>>46106971

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>>46097490

What's with the fixation on blunt weaponry? What's to stop me from taking a sword or an axe and just chopping the skeleton to pieces? It should be possible to swing hard enough to cleave through the bones, right?

>>46107943
Definitely easier to knock an arm off than cleave through bone. Though all but the sharpest blade would also knock the bones away rather than cut through them.

>>46107943
>Swing hard enough
You answered your own question, it's easier to just go at it normally with a blunt weapon to knock them apart than to swing really really hard to try and cleave them in pieces.

>>46106120
That's because you don't have enough momentum in wadded paper to force through the drag. Skeletons would go through the air as well as a chain net.

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>>46097490
Anon, you flaming idiot, the answer has been before you all along. If you weren't too busy touching yourself to thoughts of Sailor Moon being a boy and discovering his love for other magic girls turned boy, you would have seen it. Obviously, the answer is more skeletons, you horrible, horrible, horrible sack of excrement.

>>46097490
Smash 'em, boil 'em, stick em' in a stew.

>>46105439

Leaping skeletons...how terrifying! Especially if it's from a spiked pit or something where they'd otherwise seem to be a prop.

>>46097490
Just keep in mind that they have no musculature, and are literally weaker than a toddler.
With that out of the way, improvise any weapon you have, be it a sword, magic staff, rapier, javelin, etc, and use it like a hammer. The skeleton should break apart.

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>>46099722

Not so fast, hunter!

>>46107943
If you have a sharp weapon like a sword it would probably just be most effective to swing the blunt/broad side at the skeletons. And if you're attacking with the non-sharp bits of a sword, a blunt weapon is simply better suited for it.

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>>46109256
>wanting to put the hunter in a sack
>not waiting for him to become squid!hunter and thus adorable

>>46101335
What game is this?

>>46110314
Dragon's Dogma. Recently ported to pc.

>>46109475
I want to tentacle-consensual-sex the doll

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>>46110624
Squids are for mothering.

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>Ctrl+f 'smite'
0 results found
>Ctrl+f 'evil'
0 results found

Looks like I got here just in time.

>>46101852
Fire hurts their skeleton-magics

>>46099514
That one guy dual wielding candels in the back, what was he thinking?

find a way to make it rain holy water

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>>46097490
>tfw you're invited to a game
>they start without you
>they continue without you
>they talk about their game like it was someone else's game
>tfw they were old friends of yours you're trying to reconnect with
>tfw it was all a ruse

Anyway, best way to deal with skeletons is by killing the thing raising them. Otherwise, this thread has it covered.

(haunted houses always have the BBEG in the basement/attic)

>>46115664
Nice blog post