What would be the advantage of a handgun compared to a rifle and what would be the advantage of a shortblade compared to a longblade ?
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What would be the advantage of a handgun compared to a rifle and what would be the advantage of a shortblade compared to a longblade ?
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Usually handguns and shortblades have faster reload time. As a downsize, handguns have shorter range than rifles and shortblades don’t do so much damage. But to figure out for yourself, you could check this out:
http://dreicc.freeprohost.com/stats.htm
It was very helpful to me at a point where I had to make some choices 
As already said, generaly pistols shoot faster and has lower range,
and rifle has longer range and shoots slower.
Same for short and longblade, but as far as i know, hard to find a reasonable shortblade.