Back in the day, when T2 was just announced, someone on T2players.com came up with the idea of having a melee weapon for each Tribe. Basically, it would make indoor combat/dueling more interesting since they'd do tremendous damage but require the use to be extremely close (no, not shocklance close. Actually close. You know. Close.) - no one-hit kills but lots of damage still. Of course, then we started tripping and started thinking about how neat it'd be to have a different types of attack and blocks and we turned tribes into a sword fighting simulator.
Whatever
Maybe have something like that old HL mod Wastelands (or something) that allowed you to have a gun in one hand and a sword on the other.
It'd be like BEW BEW BEW pachink pachink BEW BEW pachink.