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[Graknorke]

Okay, lay that idea out for us then. The king didn't collect a team of engineers together so that they could keep their thoughts to themselves.

[flazeo25]

Okay, lay that idea out for us then. The king didn't collect a team of engineers together so that they could keep their thoughts to themselves.

Idea still being worked on but main problem is power, were not producing enough since ships this size are still small compared to ones twice the size powered by steam and its mainly our hull not good enough.

[Graknorke]

No, if you read the description it clearly states that the issue is that the ship was too heavy and badly balanced, so doesn't float well. More power = more weight, and that only makes both of those problems worse.

[tntey]

Rereading the post, the problems with the boat as I see it.

Not able to carry enough weight

Can't withstand waves and currents.

Armor is too heavy

[flazeo25]

Rereading the post, the problems with the boat as I see it.

Not able to carry enough weight

Can't withstand waves and currents.

Armor is too heavy

So it doesnt have enough boyance then

[Graknorke]

Yes, partially as a direct consequence of the hull shape having to have paddles cutting into it, from what I can infer. And also because steam engines are just heavy. Anything we put into the Mulard is basically just a hope that we get lucky enough to counter the abysmal penalties from complexity. And I just don't think we have the luxury of taking chances like that right now when we only got through last turn with a small net loss because we happened to pick the right point to defend.

EDIT: TL;DR: The Mulard is a research sink that we should only be bothering with when we have the luxury of a competitive arsenal. We don't right now.

[Snake1229]

Lets try to get the howitzer less expensive, and to do better

[Graknorke]

Lets try to get the howitzer less expensive, and to do better

The howitzer can't be less expensive because it's a land artillery piece that fires projectiles more than 3 lbs and that's where the resource limits are, but as I said before, getting the spherical cases would give us some formidable long-range capacity to do damage to soldiers and cavalry and anything made of wood.

But whatever. I've made it known where I stand. I probably won't be posting again before the revision goes through so I can't do much else about what happens.

[Snake1229]

Lets try to get the howitzer less expensive, and to do better

The howitzer can't be less expensive because it's a land artillery piece that fires projectiles more than 3 lbs, but as I said before, getting the spherical cases would give us some formidable long-range capacity to do damage to soldiers and cavalry and anything made of wood.

Okay, lets do a revision to get the spherical cases

[flazeo25]

Heres my revision type for howitzer then.

Spoiler: AM-R 12 pounder Howit mk II (click to show/hide)

A 12 pounder Howitzer that weights 2000 pounds including gun frame which may mounted on ships or be pulled by horses or in a limited manner by infantry. It has an effective range of 700 meters for ball ammunition, It tube has reinforced breech smoothbore bast iron of 5 feet and diameter of 0.380 feet. It designed to fire 12 lb. cannon balls, small ball canisters, which canister shot has effective range of 300 meters. It can also fire low explosive shells which the shells are fitted with sabots and crude time fuse, and spherical cases outfited with crude time fuse.

the crude fuse time is to help fix the problem of the both shells not firing at right time.

[tntey]

Couldn't we just improve the ammo instead of the gun?

[Snake1229]

Heres my revision type for howitzer then.

Spoiler: AM-R 12 pounder Howit mk II (click to show/hide)

A 12 pounder Howitzer that weights 2000 pounds including gun frame which may mounted on ships or be pulled by horses or in a limited manner by infantry. It has an effective range of 700 meters for ball ammunition, It tube has reinforced breech smoothbore bast iron of 5 feet and diameter of 0.380 feet. It designed to fire 12 lb. cannon balls, small ball canisters, which canister shot has effective range of 300 meters. It can also fire low explosive shells which the shells are fitted with sabots and crude time fuse, and spherical cases outfited with crude time fuse.

the crude fuse time is to help fix the problem of the both shells not firing at right time.

The canister shell works, it is just the ball and explosive shells that didn't, we need to revise to get those to work
And I don't think sabots were invented till tanks rolled up, due to them being designed to pierce armor

[flazeo25]

Didnt change anything about the canisters and sabot type was used by britsh in 1830s for cannons.

[Snake1229]

Didnt change anything about the canisters and sabot type was used by britsh in 1830s for cannons.

It is the 1780s, over 50 years too early

[flazeo25]

Didnt change anything about the canisters and sabot type was used by britsh in 1830s for cannons.

It is the 1780s, over 50 years too early

Our type of howtizer is 75 years early. since its based on ammerican civil war ones.