Flames of Horus - Using the knowledge of the Sun Staff, we mount six of them within a triad of thick discs, one just behind the area that fires, one in the middle, and one at the back. The middle and backmost are placed on the inside of a wheel that is grooved to let them spin inside. An S-shaped handle is attached to the back of the backmost disc that allows for an operator to spin the contraption, and a wedge is placed in the right area to activate a Sun Staff as it passes by, to fire when it reaches the apex. This contraption is carried on the back of a "War" Chariot, attached via another free-spinning disc construct so the weapon can be turned to face different areas of the battlefield easily.
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Easy) (1,1) +1 =3 Buggy mess
Tie staves together, get concentrated fire. Mount on cart, get mobile concentrated fire. Sounds good? Maybe too good even… you are forgetting an important detail. Staves are made to be used by hand, and a mechanism that can trigger them reliably isn’t trivial. Furthermore, you are not actually increasing the number of staves on the field, so unless you can tweak them to fire faster, you aren’t getting more shots.
You manage to cobble together a trigger pressing mechanism, activated by a handle on a rotating table. It works, but between the gears required for trigger pulling, the bulkiness of the frame and the unsuitability of the trigger for fast firing, the results are very underwhelming. It does shoot, yes. But in the end the advantage compared to just giving the staves to 6 soldiers is minimal, and consists mostly of having all shots directed by a single mind and at a constant rate of fire, which would require exceptional training for your soldiers to pull off. Then again, it is a single big target. You suspect you will have to do more work on the trigger to make this a truly fearsome weapon of war.
[2 wood, 3 ore, 2 relics] [Alien][Very Expensive]
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]
Flames of Horus6 Sun staves on a series of spinning discs, the body of this weapon rotates firing each staff in not so rapid succession. Its only advantage compared to giving its components to soldiers is that it can coordinate the firing of 6 staves better than what 6 soldiers could do without much training. [2 wood, 3 ore, 2 relics][Alien][Very 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]
It is now
Revision phase for 2999 B.C
It may be time to bring out the sacrificial goats to please the gods.
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Topic: Ancient arms race - Temple of Thoth - 2994 B.C Revision (Read 12009 times)