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SeanBeansShako posted:The main reason for volley fire is maximizing the concentration of musket balls hitting their targets. quote:With the guns from HEY GAL's era prepare for some much more crazy antics.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 14:38 |
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Didn't they already do volley fire with bows? Seems like a pretty obvious extension to doing it with guns.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 14:43 |
Yeah, I think powder horns for the military mostly disappeared after the first part of mass military usage. Cartridges or analogues are much more convenient.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 14:44 |
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Deptfordx posted:I've got a question from recent discussion in one of our nerdy RPG threads. which they do ALL THE TIME, i've seen a match stub itself out in a pile of powder edit: when i ran an rpg set in the 30yw i would have the players roll for a misfire and if they got a 1 on a 1d6 it would not fire. i have seen blown tubes in museums and such though, it does happen, but if you want an explosion i would think it would be far more likely for a spark to hit an open powder flask. i posted a video of something similar happening long ago, where a guy is firing a small cannon that he charges out of a plastic bottle of powder, which he leaves open. black powder burns very dirty so you have hot sparks EVERYWHERE when you fire. EVERYWHERE. HEY GUNS fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Sep 23, 2018 |
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chitoryu12 posted:He’s completely serious and kept responding, including saying there’s some British Army manual he can’t recall or find that says everyone is supposed to shoot from the hip. Even if he were right, the snide point about British soldier not being allowed to aim doesn't really go anywhere given the British soldiers being depicted are in the middle of a very successful action.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:01 |
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HEY GUNS posted:i posted a video of something similar happening long ago, where a guy is firing a small cannon that he charges out of a plastic bottle of powder, which he leaves open. I had to go find that again: https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/activeformalalbatross
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:21 |
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HEY GUNS posted:it's more likely that a matchlock simply fails to go off Or, at least for cannons, pack too much powder into a barrel forged of poor quality iron and the barrel simply bursts.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:26 |
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Cythereal posted:Or, at least for cannons, pack too much powder into a barrel forged of poor quality iron and the barrel simply bursts. bronze is less brittle so it will just go bloop and bulge like a failing samsung
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:31 |
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GotLag posted:I had to go find that again: god loving bless always cover your powder, friends
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:37 |
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Alchenar posted:Even if he were right, the snide point about British soldier not being allowed to aim doesn't really go anywhere given the British soldiers being depicted are in the middle of a very successful action. Also, smoothbore muskets of 18c make aren't THAT inaccurate so long as you're willing to accept that you're only going to take a few shots. It's the buck-and-ball, undersized shot, barrel fouling, and lack of maintenance that makes these weapons particularly inaccurate.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:53 |
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Gunpowder smoke also significantly influenced accuracy, so that implies aiming did make a difference.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:58 |
And undersized shot to get around fouling still has a range of 75 yards at worst. Tightly fitting bullets can go 200 yards or more accurately. If you can’t hit something at 20 feet, that’s your own drat fault.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 15:59 |
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Cythereal posted:Or, at least for cannons, pack too much powder into a barrel forged of poor quality iron and the barrel simply bursts. * fire * doesn't go off, can't hear or feel that it doesn't go off because you're all het up on adrenaline * reload * now it goes off with two shots and two charges in it * oops lol
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 16:28 |
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feedmegin posted:'regiments with old guns were equipped with one 4.5" howitzer regiment and two with 18-pounders' - that second regiment should be 'platoon' right? Yes, oops.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 16:36 |
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HEY GUNS posted:or: IIRC they also found some napoleonic muskets found that had like 5+ shots rammed in there, never fired because the soldier forgot to prime the pan or didn't notice his flint got hosed.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 16:39 |
Power horns didn't go completely, not sure if this was the case with other countries by British Napoleonic Riflemen of the 60th and 95th had horns issued to them to give a little extra range to their shots.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 16:43 |
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Little late to jokes but: When the British planes attack, the Germans take cover. When the German planes attack, the Allies take cover. When the American planes attack, everyone takes cover.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 19:07 |
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I was expecting soldiers to make more poo poo, piss, and cock jokes.
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 19:27 |
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Tias posted:A Czech angrily busts into his local police station, demanding justice. The police chief asks what crime he wishes to report, and he says that two Swiss soldiers stole his Russian watch. A Russian man walks into the local KGB office, and tells them that his parrot has been stolen. The KGB officer on duty sympathizes, but tells the man that surely this is a matter for the civil police? Of course, says the man, and he's going to them next. He's just here to tell the KGB that he disagrees entirely with whatever the parrot says. My Imaginary GF posted:I was expecting soldiers to make more poo poo, piss, and cock jokes. Admittedly, this comes from Wikipedia on Russian jokes, but- A local Russian duchess throws a grand ball, and invites everybody who's anybody. She dances first with a local merchant. "Oh," she says, "Monsieur Merchant, you have a dip of sauce on your collar." He goes white with shame and walks off with his head hanging low. She dances with a minor noble. "M'lord Duke, you have a stain on your tunic." He faints dead away. She dances with a captain of hussars. "M'sieur Captain, you have mud on your boots." "That's not mud, ma'am, that's poo poo. Don't worry, it'll fall off once it dries."
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TerminalSaint posted:Little late to jokes but: Nah, the correct version is: When the British planes attack, the Germans take cover. When the American planes attack, everyone takes cover. When the German planes attack, nobody takes cover. (the joke is the German planes never attack)
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 22:43 |
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HEY GUNS posted:thie one is from east germany I always heard this about Carabinieri
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 22:45 |
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When you see a silver plane, it’s the americans. A green plane, the british. No planes? The Luftwaffe!
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# ? Sep 23, 2018 23:34 |
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HEY GUNS posted:i don't think so, iirc the Swedes developed it during the 30yw and then a lot of people experimented with some variant of fire-by-platoon in that weird period nobody cares about between the 1650s and the War of Spanish Succession Wasn't it Maurice of Nassau who invented it in Europe. And the Han Dynasty had already used it with crossbows.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 00:49 |
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I had a dream I was firing one last night at a tree because of that dummy except it was a matchlock and it wouldn't shoot.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 01:18 |
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HEY GUNS posted:forged iron barrels are made of iron slats and iron hoops (it's why we call them "barrels" lol) and if they go, they will split apart catastrophically. cast iron will fragment. I can name one age of sail game where bronze cannons is far and away the most important upgrade to get for your ship. Not only does it reduce the chance of cannons bursting, it makes it so when a cannon does burst it merely destroys the cannon instead of killing potentially everyone in a ten foot radius and sometimes starting a fire.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 01:53 |
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During the Winter War a Soviet general is visiting the frontline when he hears someone shout from over a hill: "One Finnish soldier can take on ten Soviets!" The general will not take this insult and quickly send ten soldiers across the hill. There is a bunch of gunfire and then everything is quiet for a while until the general hears a second call: "One Finnish soldier can take on a hundred Soviets!" A hundred soldiers are sent in a similar fashion. There is gunfire and explosions, and a while later, someone shouts: "One Finnish soldier can take on a thousand Soviets!" The general is thoroughly disturbed and sends all units he can call up on short notice including a tank platoon, a bit more than a thousand all told. There is rifle and machine gun fire, smoke and explosions, trees fall over and the ground quakes. After a while, a bleeding Soviet soldier comes crawling through the snow. "Please do not send any more General, there are two of them"
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 13:07 |
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Most of those are "insert nationality" jokes instead of specifically Russian jokes. But that makes me wonder if there is any credible source of research on what is the oldest occurrence of those jokes.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 13:36 |
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tonberrytoby posted:Most of those are "insert nationality" jokes instead of specifically Russian jokes. I love the Latvian jokes. I have no idea why Latvia was chosen as the butt of them, but they're great. And dumb. Knock knock. Who is? Is milkman. Oh, wonderful, have not had milk many months. Please to come in. Am tell joke. Is secret police. What did man with one potato say to man with two potato? Premise ridiculous, nobody have two potato. Is so cold. How cold is? Very. Also is dark. Why is 6 afraid 7? Because 7 have many friend politburo.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 14:44 |
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darthbob88 posted:Related- It's not just any Hussar captain, this is Poruchik (Lieutenant) Rzehvskiy, who is a famous character in Russian jokes and often prominently appears in jokes alongside War and Peace characters. --- Lieutenant Rzhevskiy is telling a story to his men. "I was walking through a forest one day, when I saw a great big..." "rear end!" the men yell. "No, no, a great big clearing. And in the clearing I saw a great big..." "rear end!" "No, not an rear end! In the clearing there was a great big house. And I opened the doors to the house, and in the house I saw a great big..." "rear end!" "No, it was a great big reception hall! And in the end of the hall, I saw a door. I opened it and saw a great big..." "rear end!" "Wow, how did you know? Have I told this story before?"
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Phanatic posted:I love the Latvian jokes. I have no idea why Latvia was chosen as the butt of them, but they're great. And dumb. http://www.chrisconnollyonline.com/2013/04/195-history-and-origins-of-latvian-jokes.html tldr: quote:Latvian jokes began as an instant messenger conversation between me and Ky Henderson. I was writing a book about the three years I spent living in Latvia and Ky was an editor at a magazine. I was working on a chapter about the Latvians' trademark 'black humor' and I wrote a quick joke and messaged it to Ky.
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Ensign Expendable posted:It's not just any Hussar captain, this is Poruchik (Lieutenant) Rzehvskiy, who is a famous character in Russian jokes and often prominently appears in jokes alongside War and Peace characters.
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Ensign Expendable posted:It's not just any Hussar captain, this is Poruchik (Lieutenant) Rzehvskiy, who is a famous character in Russian jokes and often prominently appears in jokes alongside War and Peace characters. A local countess is celebrating her 50th birthday, and invites the Hussar regiment to come and join. The countess brags about the gifts she's gotten so far. "Captain Chekhov has given me a box of 50 scented candles from China. I was so taken with them that I put them in the 7 candleholders you see, each with 7 stems. Aren't they lovely? But this has left me with an extra candle. Where can I stick it?" Every man in the regiment takes a deep breath...and is cut off when the colonel yells "Hussars! Not a word!"
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 19:50 |
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WW2 Data A one-and-done bomb update for the "MK" series of Chemical, Incendiary, and Smoke bombs. Which of the bombs on display today is prone to leaking, and which one uses "waste"? How long do the various smoke bombs last? Why does the smoke bomb require at least 40 feet of water? Would it work if not dropped in water? All that and more at the blog!
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 21:03 |
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Shove it Carl Sagan
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 21:32 |
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Perestroika posted:IIRC they also found some napoleonic muskets found that had like 5+ shots rammed in there, never fired because the soldier forgot to prime the pan or didn't notice his flint got hosed. I've heard similar things in the US Civil War. But the impression I got was the soldier is under so much stress that they're only thinking about loading and aren't even thinking to fire. Speaking of, does anyone know anything about Firing Drills in the Civil War? I've never heard anything specific, but guessed they were basically non-existent and were more or less free fire like Revolutionary France attempted for a while.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 21:48 |
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zoux posted:
any one of these would make a magnificent av
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 21:53 |
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HEY GUNS posted:any one of these would make a magnificent av Yeah I kind of want to make one with the "my children like to hear about the time their father was exposed to atomic radiation" and have it just kind of scrolling through the faces.
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# ? Sep 24, 2018 22:21 |
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His wife apparently could not be reached for comment
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thanks for posting these!
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