Flails are great at whipping out and then stopping without stopping the main body of the mechanism they are attached to when they hit something hard. This means they are wonderful for cutting grass on rocky and uneven ground as I have found out recently having purchased a flail mower. They are however not all that great when it comes to transferring energy to an opponent in the arena which is what you would want it to do. For a flail to be of use, I'd say that you would have to have around 30 to 40 percent of the machines weight in the flail head. Make it as heavy as possible.
One weapon, one purpose and keep that purpose as simple as possible. Multiple weapons on one machine or multiple uses for one weapon rarely if ever work well because you have to make too many sacrifices to try and include all the elements. Jack of all trades yet master of none.
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