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This is an interesting book, though I have difficulty believing that humans would go for such an elaborate and obviously difficult system as this whole high-speed rope combat thing when we have such a well-established track record of building better guns... it would be one thing if there were no cannons in the story, but it just stretches disbelief that they'd rely on this whole rope brigade thing when they could just learn to aim better. The art also really kind of sucked early on, but the artist is picking up something like a style quickly. If you look at the faces on the first few pages, you start to think that everyone looks just as bizarre and psycho as the titans... but later on he goes way past that. Still well over the 'worth reading' threshold despite all of the above
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This is now a sperging thread. Maybe aiming cannons that well is difficult prior to the invention of rifling. I know you can get hilarious accuracy out of howitzer-style artillery, which is actually pretty old - but the story isn't very clear how advanced humans were prior to the giants. Some of the old pictures shown of them shooting giants from castle walls seem to imply medieval times, but the organization of their military, the uniforms, and the design of their rifles - which looked like they were breech-loading, not muskets - all seem to be 19th-century. Simpler solution - Why don't the rope fighters all carry suicide bombs? For that matter, why doesn't everyone in the story? They obviously have explosives figured out. Or they could just have a self-destruct option on those high-pressure gas canisters. It would be a good way to take one giant with you if they do happen to catch you - if it went off just as they entered the throat it would be a good chance to get that one part on the back of the neck. If the user is a coward, then set it up to have a deadman switch. It just bothers me that the writer obviously sperged out so hard on a few specific things and got handwavey on others - though it's hardly the first time that happened in any medium.
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