By the way, @ Earlier post:
We already have weapons more effective than guns. They are called artillery and bombs/nukes.
Anyway, fact is that however you frame it, Melee weapons will always
1. Be more fair. A branch or skilled unarmed combatant is more effective against melee weapons than anything else is against a firearm.
2. Take more skill.
3. Natural intelligence helps more.
4. Is, in a way more elegant because anybody can make a melee weapon and craft it with practice and precision to create something fit for a specific situation. You could, in theory both take a piece of wood or steel and use your brains to fashion the superior weapon and then use your skill to apply it. Guns are made in factories and applied with luck.
We already have weapons more effective than guns. They are called artillery and bombs/nukes.
Anyway, fact is that however you frame it, Melee weapons will always
1. Be more fair. A branch or skilled unarmed combatant is more effective against melee weapons than anything else is against a firearm.
2. Take more skill.
3. Natural intelligence helps more.
4. Is, in a way more elegant because anybody can make a melee weapon and craft it with practice and precision to create something fit for a specific situation. You could, in theory both take a piece of wood or steel and use your brains to fashion the superior weapon and then use your skill to apply it. Guns are made in factories and applied with luck.