The chain shot looks like it could hurt
I imagine it spiraling
All my homies love grape shot
Op tech
Carcass shot. Who doesn’t enjoy a little incendiary cannon shot?
The Kinder Surprise Egg of cannon shots. I’m sold!
Chain shot but it has to be fired from a double barrel cannon
“It blew up and almost killed us, perfect.”
If you made this today, but with precision ignition system and lightweight ultra high tensile wire rope, it would be catastrophic for that cow.
You mean it would be killed more instantaneously?
Test fired in Georgia, cow remains raining clear up in Maine.
He considered the test firings a success! Can’t help but feel happy for him.
He wrecked shit and killed a cow. Banger.
This looks like a success to me. Just imagine this: replace the thicket with the enemy army, you fire one shot and the rest of the army retreats.
From the descriptions of the aftermath, I can see where the mangler squigs got their inspiration from.
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. 😌
In Sid Meier’s Pirates! it was the objectively 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 redownload it and see how it holds up.
In that game the OP tactic was ramming ships of the line with a war 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 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
Not with that attitude, you won’t be. :)
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.
I’m also thinking of video games, but mine isn’t as realistic:
Canister shot all the way. Imagine having to charge a cannon position firing this stuff?
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.
Ball 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.
Cross their T and rake the decks with grape shot!
bar shot, because it also implies the existence of giants with piercings
I’m just imagining giantess pierced nipples
My day has markedly improved. I be in my bunk
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.”
I think my cousin created a drink based on this; red bull, bacardi lemon and that weird stuff with the gold flakes in it iirc
Goldschläger
I didn’t know they had Pepsi when these were used…
What exactly is “pilk”´?
Pepsi and milk
I 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.
Or the cannon ball is meant to contaminate the oil with pilk, but unfortunately a golf runs on pilk.
Canister shot.
I thought of something else when I saw the grape shot.
Deadly shibari
Don’t forget Hot Shot (heated shot).
Please, I love all my children.
