We Were Winning the War Against the Humans, Then They Brought Swords | HFY | Sci-Fi Short Stories 

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!

The Emperor Protects!

The Emperor Protects!

I love this community!

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Would be so cool of that were our reality today.

Quantum entanglement is the answer to an FTL bandwidth issue.

Great, so long as it isn't their armies! Lol

Would you look at the time (Purge o’clock)

​@@ryanhampson673 Did I just hear a heresy?!

For the Emperor!

​@@SimonRiley135 Heresy!?

Hahaha Yeah! Just have to be sure the humans take their gloves off before starting the fight though, otherwise they'll get stuck in the penalty box!

And then the Hanson brothers attack...🤣

And welded by teenage girls, hockey is played by the "fairer sex" in Britain, it's like close combat!!.

@@CrusaderSports250 The real hard version is Shinty. A man's sport for playing against other men, because men do not use full power in sports, when facing women.

The Maple Syrup War crime sticks

True!

Hahaha Glad you liked it! I was grinning ear to ear as I checked it for edits.

They are called medieval knights

@@StephenHolmes-mv7yf Nay, my good sir, they are MELEE MARINES! We must slay the alien vermin, we must remove them from our lands! Lol

@@Sci-FiVault it was a pretty good story. Did you write it?

@@billcook7285 Glad you liked it! :) No, I didn't, my writing team did. I just feed them ideas based on what y'all like, but they do their own thing from time to time too. (Marines with swords was my idea though! Bwahaha!)

And then hire a bunch of angry loggers and such to do the swinging! Probably load them up with just enough whiskey so they can have a good time before they go out to make some alien sushi! Hahaha

Or two handed hammers a true game of wack a mole

Hah, i was thinking "sticks with sharpened nails" (as seen in a Simpsons episode.

Or the best of the weapons of the past, Halberds. I think that's them, right? Axe on one end, sharp pointy spear on top, hooked spike or hammer on the other side, all on a long pole. Spear, axe, and hammer.

@@GyorBox The Spear was the most effective and widely used weapon for melee combat, across history.

Well, now I'm imagining the great Emu War of Australia with a bunch of Aussies attacking with swords now as those are shorter as well. ...I think the results of the war would be about the same as it was with guns for them. Hahaha

Maybe scythes would have been better suited for the task, although I doubt an alien species would see the dark symbolism that would lie in that...

If you study old sword fighting techniques, going for an unarmoured or lightly armoured leg, below a shield (or shieldless) was highly used. Take an opponent out of the immediate fight, with s leg strike and either come back to finish them off or take prisoner later. Many would die from the leg wound in any case.

@@Thurgosh_OG I know regimental highland broadsword. Practiced with proper pendular and weight mock weapons. Leg strikes are quite normal but being limited to low strikes only would be taxing.

A 9 iron with a sharped edge would be an excellent choice.

Lol! I was wondering how long it would be before someone mentioned this!

@Sci-FiVault would be even better if swords were chainswords and armour had jetpacks .

@@nijadbahnam9859 I wanted jetpacks so bad on this one!

😂😂😂

Stupid until the ammo runs out. Check out WWI, WWII, and just about any other conflict.

Yep. You can't meet evil halfway and expect good things to happen, quite the contrary.

I'd think they likely would still. Swords are just lengthened daggers and, arguably, the best use for a sword is for piercing, as is the case with spears. (The Romans knew this and their legionnaires were trained to stab, not slash. Stabbing actions were also harder to counter, particularly for the "barbarian" adversaries who were more accustomed to slashing attacks.)

@@Sci-FiVault Well I agree with you somewhat, you forgot the Romans also fought in formation with shields making the over had swing harder and leaving them more exposed to counterattack, the quick thrust doesn't do that. Also, the overhand wing takes more room so the formations would be looser.

@@eblkii6314 Yep, that's true.

Somehow I would have the impression that if they are an aggressive species that that been battling and overwhelming all manner of races for as long as they believe they have, swords would have just been one more weapon that lesser races had brought to the battlefield. And such a history would have had a share of losses on the part of the people doing that. But it's not really brought up in the story, so consider it speculation.

@@Sci-FiVaultha ha but the you thing like Claymores where the sheer mass of the weapon was its advantage if you hade the strength to wield it. Or the Japanese Katana a designed to slice armour made primarily out wood or bamboo. It very much depends on want the opponents defences are as to to what the most efficient weapon. Hell once chemical projectile weapons such as guns became standard body armour was reduced almost completely in favour of increased mobility.

Yes!

Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war

Hang on, I'm getting a message in... it's from... the Lorax! He says he's training an army. :P Hahaha

Ents for the rescue^^

@@tranquilthoughts7233 Lol Yeah.

​@@Sci-FiVaultMacbeth is calling and wants his walking forest back

@@frodo7287 Lol

Glad you liked it! Thanks. I was thrilled with the art on this one. :)

​@@Sci-FiVault yeah much better what other channels use usually

Hahaha Sounds like Poison Ivy's dream come true!

I actually had to double-check this video because I uploaded one with... Hmm... Maybe I shouldn't spoil this for ya just yet! :P There's another video on this channel where there are alien trees that attack, I thought it was a fun little story. It's titled "The Trees Speak".

Attack trees - Groot Murder vines - Kudzu

@@mamatmag I had the ents in mind.

The Last March of the Ents.

I hope I can get a 10/10 on the next video! :)

Huzzah!

Indeed! :)

Very true.

Lol

That would be so dope! ...Tasty as well! Hahaha

Thanks! I'm glad that you liked this story. Hope I can keep putting great ones out like this! :)

Glad you like the outro! I like videos with them as well for the same reason--autoplay can be annoying when it jumps the gun on us.

Lol! I totally agree with that with the music choices. Just reminds me of what the tankers in the Gulf War did as they rushed across the border (worth Googling that one. Lol) And Lol! True. Sorry about the narrations halting at weird times for you, I try to get everything that I can for those.

Sorry about those, trying to work things out and figure out what it takes to fix that issue. My AI struggles with titles for people. I've figured some things out, still trying to take care of the remaining gremlins.

@@Sci-FiVault Understood. I'm not up on how to format text for an AI to get the speaking done well. Even words like read and unionized which have two different pronunciations. (Ask a factory worker and a chemist to pronounce the latter, and yeh, quite different.) Some of it can be derived from context, at least that's how we deal with those situations, but teaching an AI to do that is beyond what I know. And just inserting more comma's is probably not going to help. This might be a place where one of the 'lost letters' of the english language could be used as a marker for 'add a pause' or 'this is a character title' that on it's own is not spoken, but becomes markup language for the AI speaker. I'll admit that hiring someone to voice coach an AI might be as expensive as hiring someone to be a voice actor for a whole collection of stories. On the other hand if you can find someone who can do that, and got the resulting model into the open community, I'm sure that there are a lot of people who would appreciate it, not just the listeners. It's likely to put a few people out of work in the voice acting community though. (I know a few) I don't think they would appreciate it much.

Good story!

As soon as a military shifts to just defending, they lose the war every time. People will always find a way to bust through the best defenses. ...Or go around, as in many instances as well.

​@@Sci-FiVault *Laughs in early 1940s Belgian Forest Detour* Yea, some of us know about flanking quite well~

Glad you liked it! I'm fiddling with the AI narrations and hope to get things sorted out there soon, we'll see of I can make him behave. Hahaha

That's a cool thought! :)

I mean, hell, we already have that today.

Thanks, glad you liked it! :D As for the artwork, I have it behind a paywall, sorry. It's up for members only, but you can pause the video at any point and screenshot it if you want to cheat the system and not pay the 99 cents for the membership. Hahaha Image is AI generated by me, so use it for all the desktops you please. :)

Ha! That is funny. I upload the text for subtitles to ensure accuracy with them and to hopefully help translations. If that does in fact help, then I guess we have Commander Beer reporting for duty! Hahaha

Agreed! :) Thanks for the comment.

Sounds like a good sequel to me!

Or just lawm mowers....they were kinda short

Oh, brother allow me to introduce you to the haybine.

If u think more, an armour was a cheap test that worked, and they got sword training already, now with Ws not Ls they can make ammo out of it, vehicles etc etc

@@progamasEjogos Good points!

I'm glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment as well. :)

All I'm picturing for the story is the big honking swords I see in some anime commercials that are impossibly huge. Lol That'd cut through the aliens easy!

@@Sci-FiVault give them buster swords and mechs lol

@@Axzuin Well, now I'm just picturing some big mechs with massive maces going around smashing everything. Just imagine what the USMC would do given that sort of stuff! Lol

@@Sci-FiVault mech marines hulk smash with maces 🤣🤣🤣

@@Axzuin Lol! I'd watch that movie.

Glad you liked it. :)

Glad you liked it! :)

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

Propaganda streamed to people across all mediums and channels 24/7. Gotta love it.

​@@Sci-FiVaultAll net, all channels! Would you like to know more?

Lol! I think you might be a burner account for the Grim Reaper. :P

Have you ever swung a scythe?? They use muscles that rarely get used even in dedicated body builders. Your back will hate you for weeks as will your glutes & hamstrings.

Warhammer plus acorn aliens! Lol

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it!

Hahaha Very true!

AI reader. Story from Reddit HFY/HSO. Humanity Fu.... Yeah! or Humans are Space Orks.

Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment.

Anything a projectile can do a bigger projectile can do better! Lol ...Hang on, let me build a planet-sized railgun now. You never know.

Thanks! Glad you liked it.

It's from my writing team. We just do original pieces on the channel so far. :)

@@Sci-FiVault that’s awesome! I was worried because I don’t like supporting plagiarism, but that’s cool!

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for commenting. :)

Ha! All I can picture now is a space marine version of the exterminator from "Ant Bully" entering the fray! Could be all sorts of fun.

That could be fun!

Thanks! :)

Lol

Sorry you didn't like the narrations, but at least you enjoyed the story! :)