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FAUXTON posted:Probably a thing that measures elevation so they know they're firing at the correct angle. razak posted:That is a Gunners quadrant. Used to measure the elevation. Cool, thanks guys!
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Tias posted:I saw a video of a dude at some parade get tagged by his cannon, and flew out of the picture. I can't imagine he survived it, the poor guy I always think one of Captain Mercer and his horse artillery loaders at Waterloo, dude didn't get of the way during the last stage of loading and lost both of his arms at the elbow then shortly bled to death. Respect the gun!
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Know a guy who decided to fire a round by kicking the breech. Permanent limp now. Another guy put his face down between the trails during firing and took a breech to the face. Lost an eye. Months of hospitalization for both.
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 Sic semper principes Absoluta btw. that looks like a REALLY swarthy 17th century fältskär's aide there. Did Ol' Goose Staff Aid's surgeon have an African accompanion or what is the story of this?
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PittTheElder posted:So it's a gun that fires the instant you chamber a round? Why on earth would you want that? I mean, strictly that's how a mortar works.
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Nenonen posted:
Chances are the dude is part of the band.
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SeanBeansShako posted:Chances are the dude is part of the band. That's a possibility! Incidentally, can you believe it, googling for "gustav adolf" and "neger" results in something quite different.  "gustav adolf" and "svarta" at least gives links to biography of Adolf Ludvig Gustav Fredrik Albert Badin, but still wrong century. You would think that if in an engraving of the death of a king there's a black kid then either there's a black persona whose presence at the scene was known to the artist and therefore should be common knowledge, or then there's some contemporary meaning to it, religious or otherwise?
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Nenonen posted:
I believe that's Dr James Nichols.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, strictly that's how a mortar works. Touche. I guess I should have said "So it's a gun that fires and recoils like crazy the instant you chamber a round? Why on earth would you want that?"
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Yes, it's like a lava lamp.
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heard someone talkin' poo poo about mortars in this thread?
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Yea. they're baby tubes. Cannon supremacy.
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FastestGunAlive posted:Yea. they're baby tubes. Cannon supremacy. 
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Ataxerxes posted:That is supposed to be Tilly, not Gustaf. 
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HEY GAL posted:what if you live here Take a page from Vauban and shoot parallel the wall instead of at it
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HEY GAL posted:what if you live here I'd move TBQH.
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Well What Now posted:I'd move TBQH.
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HEY GAL posted:rent's great Neighbors probably get drunk and shoot pistols out their windows all night though.
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HEY GAL posted:rent's great Housemates loving suck.
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HEY GAL posted:what if you live here TACAIR
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Those WWI artillery gifs I posted are all from "Flashes of Action: Actualities of the World War", which the National Archives was nice enough to upload on youtube. It's got a great, unexpectedly whimsical intro: https://fuwa.se/p/YKH8Ao.mp4 Early AA https://zippy.gfycat.com/UnknownArcticCollardlizard.webm Despite all the bullets sent skyward, the enemy pilot still managed to take out the blimp https://zippy.gfycat.com/PiercingFlakyGreatwhiteshark.webm Smoooooth ride https://zippy.gfycat.com/KaleidoscopicNextArkshell.webm Captured German pilot getting taunted https://zippy.gfycat.com/CookedVerifiableFruitfly.webm Hargrimm fucked around with this message at 03:27 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Someone spent like a thousand years hand-animating that intro  It's so loving funny that the spotting blimp people got parachutes before the airplane people did. Wouldn't want to find yourself in a burning aircraft with no way out 
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aphid_licker posted:Someone spent like a thousand years hand-animating that intro MOS-442, Entertainment Specialist, just as important as any other MOS for victory!
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Aphid: That's why -- didn't want pilots getting scared and unassing an expensive airplane that might still be flyable.
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Bad Angus! Bad!
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Long time reader, first time poster, love the thread. Does anybody know where I might find some unit specifics about the French side of the French & Indian war? Like, in english and online (I'll probably pick up the osprey book on it, I really just want to look into the French regulars).
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That tank, lol ride ride ride hooold THUNK
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Ataxerxes posted:That is supposed to be Tilly, not Gustaf. well it's good that I wasn't a 17th century sniper, all white men with goatees look the same to me 
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Nenonen posted:That's a possibility! Incidentally, can you believe it, googling for "gustav adolf" and "neger" results in something quite different.
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JcDent posted:That tank, lol To be fair most regular cars and trucks at the time had steel wheels and leaf spring suspension, so it wasn't exactly like anyone was getting a silky smooth ride in those days
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Ensign Expendable posted:MOS-442, Entertainment Specialist, just as important as any other MOS for victory! I'm MOS-934, the amphibian truck driver 
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FastestGunAlive posted:Take a page from Vauban and shoot parallel the wall instead of at it how does that help? I'm not trying to be snarky i don't know how you use cannon.
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Use them in enfilade to rake the fortifications and you may even get ricochets within the fort for even more damage
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Re: surprise early modern black people, I thought Pushkins great-grandpa was named Gannibal as in cannibal and was like drat guys that's kinda not cool but I had completely forgotten about the no H in Russian thing and he's named after Hannibal ofc.
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aphid_licker posted:Re: surprise early modern black people, I thought Pushkins great-grandpa was named Gannibal as in cannibal and was like drat guys that's kinda not cool but I had completely forgotten about the no H in Russian thing and he's named after Hannibal ofc.
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I love how a neutral Austrian-Hungarian Imperial army more or less shortened the Crimean War without firing a shot.
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HEY GAL posted:why did you think early modern russians spoke english in the first place, my dude Russians are p chill about stealing words and pretty pragmatic about translating them into cyrillic and it made perfect sense to me that they'd steal cannibal. And I was right about that, because indeed it's каннибал (kannibal). I just got mixed up about what they tend(ed)* to replace with "g", which is the h and not the k, because my Russian is extremely basic and pretty rusty. https://translate.google.com/#en/ru/cannibal It can also apparently be людоед, (ljudoed), people-I'm not sure what "ед" is, it's probably some kind of form of есть, to eat, that I never got around to learning during my half-assed attempt at learning Russian. *today they tend to use the х (kh) instead of the г (g), so Khitler rather than Gitler.** ** at least according to my old Russian teacher, google translate still does Gitler: https://translate.google.com/#en/ru/hitler aphid_licker fucked around with this message at 13:07 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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DiHK posted:Long time reader, first time poster, love the thread. I don't, no, but as you probably know it was a part of the larger 7 Years War, so you might get more results searching for that instead. I'm sure there's a 7YW resource out there that details the North American theater.
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