Whats the best Vanilla Weapon to Subdue Pawns ?

[SpaceDorf]

Well Topic Says it all :

Whats the best Vanilla Weapon to Subdue or knock out Pawns ?

even my melee Zero guys end up just killing the enemy.

And before you ask No bladed Weapons where used so far. Pistols, Bows, Logs, Fists ..

[MasterD1085]

Really If I want to subdue someone, I just try and punch them barehanded....and pray a little.

[SpaceDorf]

I tried that, and they always died.

Wooden logs seemed to have done the trick,
Next time I will try really crappy wooden shivs and clubs.
I think shoddy shivs are the way to go

P.S.:

I think I captured a crapstorm waiting to happen

Pyromaniac as Background
and the Traits of :

Ugly,
Nervous
Pessimist

I think I will heal her and then release her into the wild.

--- Edit ---

on top of it, she has asthma .. this has to be the worst pawn I have ever seen.

[Mutineer]

Fists on low melee skill level is probably best choice

[b0rsuk]

Arrest them.

[christhekiller]

Well if it's colonists who go berserk I'll usually have a bunch of my gun wielding colonists beat them and they'll go down like that.

[SpaceDorf]

In my case the Pawns I wanted to capture came from the Ancient Cryocaskets.

The colony had 5 members at that time, and the casketeers would double that.

Most of them where friendlies I just could capture, but one resisted arrest and one was hostile.
As always, those where the ones I wanted.

So I captured all runners before the one hostile could shoot them, but the hostile one always died
Until I tried wooden logs.

The crackpot Pyromaniac was one of them, got beaten to death by her fellow inmates on her second Berserker Rage.

I tried the wooden shivs on the pirates that attacked shortly after, but against body shields and plaststeel swords thats not really a good idea


@killer
My berserkers get beaten up the same way everybody else does it, but at this time they are better equipped than the one guy raids and can take the punishment.

[b0rsuk]

I would still try without a weapon. Build walls around them and wait until they fall unconscious from exposure or starvation, then immediately send someone to capture them.

[SpaceDorf]

I could have closed off my Airlock in front of the Burial Chamber,
but then the scarabs would have eaten my recruit.

If I can lock in Berserkers I do it.