Showing posts with label Cannon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cannon. Show all posts

Tuesday, 21 August 2012

Congreave’s Galloping Artillery, Patents #3 & #9

"Battle is about getting there firstest with the mostest."
Nathan Bedford Forrest
(Confederate cavalry commander, massive racist and namesake of Tom Hanks movies about protagonists with socially-acceptable learning difficulties.)

Bronzino's Galloper Guns
Mobile artillery is like a box of chocolates ... you want to avoid the hard centres.

Bronzino's Galloper Guns were the only war machines available to Dogs of War armies, unless you want to include Malakai Makaisson's Goblin-Hewer or the Halfling Hot-Pot Catapult...

Like I said, Bronzino's Galloper Guns were the only war machines available to Dogs of War armies. Fair play to Alessio Cavatore for trying something new (and historically-accurate) with cannon, and even more kudos to the Perry Brothers for the fantastic sculpt on these models (compare and contrast the Empire's plastic cannon).

It's really a shame that, in terms of game play, they're pretty bloody useless.

Bronzino's Galloper Guns
"Your cannon is pointing at my horse again, Bob."
"What do you me to do about it?"
"You could at least take the cannonball out."

Sunday, 15 July 2012

Congreave’s Patent #37 Automated Spitfyre

Helblaster volley gun

“An harquebus that shall contain balls or pellets of lead, all of which shall go off one after another, having once given fire, so that with one harquebus one may kill ten thieves or other enemies without recharging it.”
Sir Francis Walsingham
(who knew a thing or two about killing large numbers of people)


“Forsooth brother, I wouldst put a cap in thine ass.”