HofmaimaierPan Galactic Gargle Blaster
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 I only have experience in video games, and in the vast majority of them the chainshot is the most OP shot type you can use. Enemies can’t escape or evade you if their masts have all been cut in half. 😌
KraidenI was gonna pick bar shot for similar reasons. I feel like the flexible chain would allow for too much loss of energy. Pure guess though, IANA 18th century naval warfare expert
SolacefromSilenceNot with that attitude, you won't be. :)
OtterI’m also thinking of video games, but mine isn’t as realistic:
Sorry but this is only good on sea.
Enemies can’t advance or retreat if they have no legs. 😤
First thought was shooting parallel to floor, then ppl where talking about masts. I was like oh, ok that makes sense too.
there’s also that a lot died of infection.
The vast majority of wounds documented during the Civil War were caused by the Minié ball, while the rest were from grapeshot, canister or other exploding shells. Few men were treated for saber or bayonet wounds and even fewer for cannon ball wounds.
Unfortunately for the soldiers and the surgeons, the Civil War was fought just years before the widespread acceptance of the Germ Theory and the understanding of antisepsis and the sterilization of instruments and equipment. The Civil War surgeons performed their work as best they could, but did not have the knowledge of the role germs played in causing infection. While some antiseptic substances like iodine and bromine were used, the reason for their effectiveness was unknown. The discovery of antibiotics was still decades in the future.
Again, a shot that spreads wide would affect more men then 1 straight saw.
Longer chain.
Just launch Walter Dornez at them. At some point it becomes basically the same thing.
In Sid Meier’s Pirates! it was the objectivity correct choice 99% of the time. Even a tiny ship could take out a ship of the line with a few well-placed chain shot barrages, and ships would pretty much always surrender the instant they lost their mast.
I think the story battles were an exception to the instant surrender rule, but without their sails you could switch to grape shot and pepper their helpless vessel until they had no crew left, then board for an instant victory.
I miss that game. I should load it up and see how it holds up.
In that game the OP tactic was ramming war ships with a canoe (it sails faster than cannonballs fly so you can evade them), then beating up the captain so his 2000 trained Marines will surrender to your 50 brigands.
I could never get the timing down on the dueling minigame. Chain shot is risk-free (and cost-free since dueling risks your crew), plus the dueling minigame gets harder as your character gets older but your sailing muscle memory is always reliable.
The dueling minigame goes into muscle memory, as well.
And it uses the same timing, mechanics and keys as the dancing minigame.
And it uses the same timing, mechanics and keys as the dancing minigame.
I gotta go with round shot.
it really says “fuck you and your boat, I don’t even want to steal it from you”
Carcass is cool too I guess. But it’s no 6” hole punched through the hull.
Brave Little Hitachi WandBall gang rise up. It’s iconic, and dismembered men in formations wholesale, and knocked them down to boot. There’s usually no need for the rest of these innovative horrors, they just seem unsporting.
No minié ball? GTFO
Correct, If a shitpost is making me use out of time and place cannons, then I’m using minié balls.
bar shot, because it also implies the existence of giants with piercings
Track_ShovelI’m just imagining giantess pierced nipples
My day has markedly improved. I be in my bunk
Console_ModderChain shot but it has to be fired from a double barrel cannon
He wrecked shit and killed a cow. Banger.
From the descriptions of the aftermath, I can see where the mangler squigs got their inspiration from.
edinbruhIf you made this today, but with precision ignition system and lightweight ultra high tensile wire rope, it would be catastrophic for that cow.
Test fired in Georgia, cow remains raining clear up in Maine.
i had this idea: maybe one could achieve simultaneous firing by using only one combustion chamber with pressure valves that open channels to the cannon balls
Thing is, the cannon ball IS the pressure valve. And since one of them will invariably go faster than the other one, the whole thing will be even less unpredictable with one half of the chain still in the barrel
then just make it so the canonball is NOT the pressure valve. tge way i see it is you just gotta let tge explosion build up for a bit so the pressure equalizes
Or why not load them linearly into a single barrel. It’d shoot out straight but would likely develop asymmetries and build up a moment of inertia eventually resulting in the bolas motion they’re likely intending.
“It blew up and almost killed us, perfect.”
I’m pretty sure they fired chain shot from single barreled cannon. On ships, they have two cannonballs connected with a chain and they powder the barrel and load them both in the barrel, then when they fire it the balls spread out and it takes down rigging and masts on ships.
They did, but I love how unpredictable the double barrel cannon was and that the inventor thought it was a success
I never even knew about it thanks for the link will have to check it out. Seems if you didn’t fire at exactly the same time the gunner crew would get wasted, which was not uncommon back then in any case. Being a cannon gunner was not a great job. Early exploding shot was really dangerous too.
I came here for the drink damnit. I want something that does this
Its effects are similar to “having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.”
Herbal GamerI didn’t know they had Pepsi when these were used…
We created the elixir of pure distaste.
Sundray
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TheBrideWoreCrimsonWhat exactly is "pilk"´?
samus12345I assumed it was some sort of old thing I hadn’t heard of, but searching yields nothing (but the Pepsi/milk thing). Which then made me wonder if the word’s a typo, and if so, what word it’s supposed to be. It appears to just be a rather random weird joke.
I think the idea is that your dying enemies will probably get some of that foul concoction in their mouths, thus suffering more as they die. Probably will smell awful cleaning it too - I bet the carbonic acid in the soda sours the milk, so you’d have strange and smelly “cheeses” with that mix of deck’s bacteria. Perhaps irreparable and they have to sink the ship.
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