Some of the Total War games have these chainshot as anti-ship mast weapons. They seem horrifying. Accounts I've read of regular cannonball impacts are like "everyone standing next to me suddenly lost their feet", and adding the chain that's just a helicopter flying through infantry.
Naval chain shots put both balls and the chain in the same barrel, it seems the main attempt at innovation here was adding a second one.
Yeah chain-balls worked for centuries, there was no need to "fix" them like this
I think the problem with chain shot was how inaccurate and erratic the shot was, like it could only be used against ships becuase you could aim at the big ass sails. I assume for this thing they were trying to fire both cannon balls out at the same time and try and pull the chain into a flat trajectory. I'm pretty confident this wouldn't have worked even with modern technology, also they had case shot and grape shot back then which would mow down infantry really well.
Well great, now I'm going to be stuck imagining a modern cannon firing chainshot-but-in-shotgun-shell-form all day instead of doing work.
...I wonder if a 40mm shell would be enough to cut through a tree cleanly?
Shouldn't the muzzle be binocular shaped since it needs room for the chain?
When your killing machine fulfills its purpose about as well as the average gmod contraption.
Now I'm imagining a player with a civil-war uniform model, with a physgun, trying to shove a metal ball tied with a gmod rope into his DB cannon, with loud audible metal clanks from the props constantly colliding.
You know when a physics entity gets caught in a videogame and freaks the fuck out and stretches all over the place? If one of those barrels goes off while the other does not you're asking for that entire cannon to become that physics entity freaking the fuck out.
Why didn't they just carve out one chamber at the end so it could be ignited instantly by a single fuse? Surely this is the one time when you'd want to design for chain ignition
Wonder why they didn't try just having a second and smaller ball just sitting next to the end of the first barrel, and attached by a chain, so that the two balls would spin.
Sure, it would have a shorter range, but this wasn't intended to be a super accurate/long-range weapon anyway.
