Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Rockeater]

Understanding Sun Cannons: (2) BBB,Rockeater

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Understanding Sun Cannons: (3) BBB,Rockeater, Zanzetkuken

[Atomic Chicken]

Understanding Sun Cannons: (4) BBB,Rockeater, Zanzetkuken, Atomic

[andrea]

Revision: Understanding Sun Cannons

We spend time studying how Sun Cannons work, in hopes of understanding them. OOC goal: Remove [Alien(Sun Cannon)].

(Very Hard) (2+1 )-2 = 1 Utter failure

You set out to disassemble extremely carefully one of the Sun cannons. You already know how to make one work, and what it does, but now you seek to discover how it does what it does and what are the mechanisms inside of it, in the hope that such improved understanding will allow you to simplify salvage, construction and operations.

It took little to figure out that whatever the mechanism that generates the globular projectile is, it doesn’t take tampering kindly. The test article exploded rather violently, taking several disciples (and their notes) with it. Sadly, no progress has been made.

Spoiler:  Egyptian equipment (click to show/hide)

Khopesh – A bronze sickle-sword, capable of cutting through flesh quite easily, as well as being useful for tearing off limbs and hooking shields and similar. [1 wood, 1 ore] [Cheap]

Wooden bow – a simple wooden bow, capable of propelling arrows at a fairly large distance. [1 wood] [Cheap]

Sun staff – an ornate bronze clad wooden staff, at its top sits an intricate conglomeration of alien tech tied together with human ingenuity. When activated, it starts humming then it produces a globular light that flies straight toward where the staff was aimed, extremely hot to the point of producing a small explosion on impact. It can inflict grievous wounds even through heavy armor, and is most often deadly on unarmoured enemies. It has a longer range than bows, but is less accurate at a distance and quite slower to reload. [1 wood, 2 ore, 1 Relics] [Alien] [Expensive]

Atet solar barge – a wide and slow ship, moved primarily by oars. It can hold many soldiers on the deck, but the most important feature is  the centrally mounted Sun temple, a  very large version of the Sun staff. Its fiery power can easily destroy or cripple any wooden ship it hits, but it is not trivial to aim, being fixed to the deck. Even when it misses, however, it turns sea water in a significant quantity of hot mist, causing inconvenience to enemies. Provides 1 TC. [2 wood, 1 ore, 2 Relics][Alien] [Very expensive]

Sky temple - A pyramid shaped structure, it is heavily built and armored. It has a Sun cannon which it uses as a heavy weapon. Floats roughly 1 m from the ground and is extremely slow. [3 wood 3 ore, 4 Relics][Alien] [National effort]

Cart caravan – an horse pulling a cart, it is a great way to move goods across the vast plain areas of Egypt. Provides 1 TC [1 wood] [Cheap]

Now begins the first turn of the game, design phase of 3000 B.C.

[10ebbor10]

Sunset Altar The sunset altar is a modification of the Sun Temple. We've rearranged it's various parts and systems, allowing it to channel it's power to a smaller version of itself located on top. This version can be moved a fire a barrage of less powerfull shots in all directions.

[andrea]

I feel like I should point out this part of the description of the Sun staff:

"When activated, it starts humming then it produces a globular light that flies straight toward where the staff was aimed, extremely hot to the point of producing a small explosion on impact."

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Understand the Infantry Sun Staffs

Andrea has stated both of them are similar difficulty, and either would help tremendously in understanding the other.  Therefore, I believe we should try to understand one as the design, and the other as a revision in order to maximize effect.

[Shadowclaw777]

Sunset Altar: (1) 10ebbor10
Understanding the Infantry Sun Staff: (2) Zanzetkuken, SC

[Rockeater]

Sunset Altar: (1) 10ebbor10
Understanding the Infantry Sun Staff: (3) Zanzetkuken, SC,Rockeater

[andrea]

Understand the infantry Sun Staffs

(Hard) (1,3) -1 =3 Buggy mess
Experiments on the big Sun temple cannon proved to be far too dangerous at this time, so we moved to the smaller sun staves. Indeed, the results have proven extraordinarily good! Now the disciples set to disassemble them are not killed, but merely disfigured and maimed by the smaller explosions. Since the wounds are immediately cauterized, most of them even survive, able to tell what went wrong.
Now we know which bits are fiddly and explode, and have a few ideas on how to handle them. We have no significant insight in the overall workings of the weapon, but future experimentation should be much easier.

Spoiler:  Egyptian equipment (click to show/hide)

Khopesh – A bronze sickle-sword, capable of cutting through flesh quite easily, as well as being useful for tearing off limbs and hooking shields and similar. [1 wood, 1 ore] [Cheap]

Wooden bow – a simple wooden bow, capable of propelling arrows at a fairly large distance. [1 wood] [Cheap]

Sun staff – an ornate bronze clad wooden staff, at its top sits an intricate conglomeration of alien tech tied together with human ingenuity. When activated, it starts humming then it produces a globular light that flies straight toward where the staff was aimed, extremely hot to the point of producing a small explosion on impact. It can inflict grievous wounds even through heavy armor, and is most often deadly on unarmoured enemies. It has a longer range than bows, but is less accurate at a distance and quite slower to reload. [1 wood, 2 ore, 1 Relics] [Alien] [Expensive]

Atet solar barge – a wide and slow ship, moved primarily by oars. It can hold many soldiers on the deck, but the most important feature is  the centrally mounted Sun temple, a  very large version of the Sun staff. Its fiery power can easily destroy or cripple any wooden ship it hits, but it is not trivial to aim, being fixed to the deck. Even when it misses, however, it turns sea water in a significant quantity of hot mist, causing inconvenience to enemies. Provides 1 TC. [2 wood, 1 ore, 2 Relics][Alien] [Very expensive]

Sky temple - A pyramid shaped structure, it is heavily built and armored. It has a Sun cannon which it uses as a heavy weapon. Floats roughly 1 m from the ground and is extremely slow. [3 wood 3 ore, 4 Relics][Alien] [National effort]

Cart caravan – an horse pulling a cart, it is a great way to move goods across the vast plain areas of Egypt. Provides 1 TC [1 wood] [Cheap]

Now begins revision phase for 3000 B.C.

[10ebbor10]

War Chariot A devastatingly fast weapon made of wood and bronze, the war chariot is a two wheeled cart drawn by 2 horses. Three soldiers stand atop it. 1 Charioteer, and two others equipped with bows or other weaponry.

[RAM]

A khopesh on a long stick. Used by heavily-trained warriors to maim and pull enemies at a distance, often from behind allies.

[Shadowclaw777]

Revisions:
War Chariot: (2) 10ebbor10, SC
Hookhopesh: (1) RAM

[Rockeater]

Revisions:
War Chariot: (3) 10ebbor10, SC, Rockeater
Hookhopesh: (1) RAM

[andrea]

War Chariot A devastatingly fast weapon made of wood and bronze, the war chariot is a two wheeled cart drawn by 2 horses. Three soldiers stand atop it. 1 Charioteer, and two others equipped with bows or other weaponry.

(Normal) (2+1 ) = 3 Buggy mess
There must have been some miscommunication between you and the disciples in the field. While you asked for something inspired by the merchant carts able to carry people in battle at high speed, but it seems that they understood that you wanted to use the very same cart for the purpose. They did add some bronze to the sides, but those sides are too low to offer protection. They are faster than when used to ferry big loads, due to lower weight, but at “high” speed their bulky frame shakes so much that your soldiers need to hang on to something to not fall, meaning that if you want to shoot from it, you need to go at a walking pace. Certainly not a great weapon of war, at least having the carts available for the troops makes them slightly happier about not having to walk all the time. Or nauseous, if the driver pushes the horses too much.
Being converted civilian hardware without significant requirements for the animals attached to it, it is fairly cheap.

[2 wood, 1 ore] [Cheap]

Spoiler:  Egyptian equipment (click to show/hide)

Khopesh – A bronze sickle-sword, capable of cutting through flesh quite easily, as well as being useful for tearing off limbs and hooking shields and similar. [1 wood, 1 ore] [Cheap]

Wooden bow – a simple wooden bow, capable of propelling arrows at a fairly large distance. [1 wood] [Cheap]

Sun staff – an ornate bronze clad wooden staff, at its top sits an intricate conglomeration of alien tech tied together with human ingenuity. When activated, it starts humming then it produces a globular light that flies straight toward where the staff was aimed, extremely hot to the point of producing a small explosion on impact. It can inflict grievous wounds even through heavy armor, and is most often deadly on unarmoured enemies. It has a longer range than bows, but is less accurate at a distance and quite slower to reload. [1 wood, 2 ore, 1 Relics] [Alien] [Expensive]

Atet solar barge – a wide and slow ship, moved primarily by oars. It can hold many soldiers on the deck, but the most important feature is  the centrally mounted Sun temple, a  very large version of the Sun staff. Its fiery power can easily destroy or cripple any wooden ship it hits, but it is not trivial to aim, being fixed to the deck. Even when it misses, however, it turns sea water in a significant quantity of hot mist, causing inconvenience to enemies. Provides 1 TC. [2 wood, 1 ore, 2 Relics][Alien] [Very expensive]

Sky temple - A pyramid shaped structure, it is heavily built and armored. It has a Sun cannon which it uses as a heavy weapon. Floats roughly 1 m from the ground and is extremely slow. [3 wood 3 ore, 4 Relics][Alien] [National effort]

"War" ChariotA converted civilian cart previously used to ferry cargo, the conversion consisting mostly of a bronze plating. not fast, not well protected and not stable. [2 wood, 1 ore][
Cheap]

Cart caravan – an horse pulling a cart, it is a great way to move goods across the vast plain areas of Egypt. Provides 1 TC [1 wood] [Cheap]

You are now in Battle phase. Please pick a front in which to deploy your national effort.