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| Glord #734891 7 months ago |
Stoicmachine has to be psychic or something. |
| Aponybrony #734956 7 months ago |
EPIC |
| Ontalimo #734978 7 months ago |
I'm actually curious how you could fire cannons on an airship without throwing it off course? Firing both sides at once like in the picture probably fixes this but what if your targets on one side? Maybe they use "Blank" charges in some of the cannons to steady the ship? |
| Glord #734980 7 months ago |
Because rule of cool. |
| Anonymous #734988 7 months ago |
They could be enchanted to be recoiless. |
| Ontalimo #734990 7 months ago |
I guess magic does overcome physics, though pony technology can now all be boiled down to "Wizard did it". |
| Anonymous #734999 7 months ago |
I imagine it's a mix of mechanical science and magic. One existing without the other would be less efficient. |
| Anonymous #735002 7 months ago |
BECAUSE FUCK PHYSICS! |
| NonAnon #735030 7 months ago |
With a large mass in the hull, and airship could fire a single side. The recoil in such a case would cause a manageable rocking. Hardly hampering movement, but continued salvos would become increasingly difficult to fire accurately. |
| Anonymous #735043 7 months ago |
Maybe the projectiles are self-propelled, like rockets? Cannon shells have recoil, whereas rockets have much less recoil. The cannon might just act as a guide for the rocket.
Ah, fuck it. We're overthinking things, chalk it up to magic. |
| Ontalimo #735060 7 months ago |
#043
I really like the rocket idea. It would also give airships a more deadly range than cannons. Plus a rocket exploding on deck would be a lot worse than a cannonball I think. |
| Anonymous #735386 7 months ago |
^ Rocket powered cannonballs. |
| CogWeaver #735426 7 months ago |
Or you just have the cannons themselves take all of their own individual recoil on wheels and/or rails and reduce any amount of force put on to the ship itself.
Really, if you can keep a whole ship larger than a sloop steady in the upper atmosphere wind currents, steadying it against cannon fire should be an easy task by comparison. |
| Anonymous #735850 7 months ago |
Well, even if you have the cannon absorb recoil, it eventually has to transfer it to the ship to conserve momentum. However, if the bleed-off is slow, it won't disturb the airship out of position much as the atmosphere drags against whatever is supporting it. |
| Tarukai788 #736218 7 months ago |
@CogWeaver has a point. think about large ships on the ocean. the amount of force put out by cannon-fire in the old wooden ships was negligible because (yes I know they're on water, but) the cannons were free to move inside. seeing the design here, they might not have the same ability, however they MIGHT have a counterweight built-in to steady it (like a skyscraper in an earthquake-prone zone). |
| Nebbie #736331 7 months ago |
They could hav the cannons all face diagonally instead of exactly perpendicular to the ship. Sailing ships only couldn't do that because stopping was an issue. That way they can fire both sides at once most of the time and only worry about the amount of the force that pushes them bakk rather than to the side. |
| Calbeck #744302 7 months ago |
Money. Take it. NOW. |