Imagine that Tes has Every weapon that it should have (shortsword, kuri, lance, flail, odachi,gladius,javalin,various types of crossbow, blowpipe, rapier,net,trident,shuriken, katar,Pie,sling, caltrop, lantern, alchemical bomb, wildfire,huntinghorn, scimitar, dirk, garrote, knuckleduster, claws, bottle,club and flowers)

How do skills work? For you see- If we take japanese weapons for this example (because there is less confusion about the names. For those who don't know- Japanese swords have been in since the first elder scrolls game. Reading a few ingame texts will find katanas. In arena katanas came in every metal)

anyways. A wakazashi is like a katana . A katana is like an odachi. But an Odachi is nothing like a wakazashi

An Odachi is like a greatsword. A greatsword is not like a battleaxe. But an Odachi isn't used too differently from a battleaxe (despite being an oversized sword that can cut a horse in half)


Furthermore there are a few different fighting styles with a lot of mellee weaponry. (and according to redguards- a few bazillion for swords) There is a lot of unarmed styles too. And who's to say that using a tanto or dirk won't help you with a throwing knife (which is simmilar to a dart. A dart isn't like a dagger though)


Blah,blah,blah.. any ideas?

One overarching skill with sub categories would be ideal to represent the skills I guess.

Blade
-Long blades
--Curved Long Blades
--Straight Long Blades
-Short Blades
--Daggers and Knives
--Shortswords
-Two Handed Blades
--Straight Two Handed Blades
--Curved Two Handed Blades
-Axes
--Two Handed Axes
--One handed Axes
-Spears
--One handed Spears
--Two Handed Spears
--Sword staves
-Unorthodox Weapons
--Kusari Gama
--Etc etc

That's just an incomplete version of the Blades Skill. I think in this case simplicity may be best. It would start to get very complex if we truly tried to represent all the types of Weapons Skills. For simplicities sake I would propose something like this. With a few subcategories like Two handed and one handed.

-Blades
-Axes
-Blunt
-Spears
-Marksmen
-Unarmed

Probably missing something.

Not a clue...