Imagining a world where we somehow managed to split the atom without creating gunpowder based weapons. Just dudes with pikes getting vaporized by tactical nukes launched from trebuchets
I don't know if it's possible to develop atomic science without stumbling into high-enthalpy chemistry along the way. Much how I don't see post-collapse nuclear waste safeguarding as that big of an issue: if we bury it deep enough in a shaft, and ensure the shaft collapses and fills in after a certain period of disuse, then anyone who can dig that deep will need modern excavating technology, and they'll probably have figured out what radioactivity is along the way.
I'm not sure what the maximum range of any trebuchet is. Probably has to do with wood strength and the object's terminal velocity.
they definitely wouldn't have used longbows to clear rooms, longbows are hugely inaccurate and are mainly good because they shoot really far and with a lot of force
They are not inaccurate at room scale close range. They are however bulky and difficult to use in close quarters plus if you actually held the string drawn all the time like in the video your arm would be dead in 5 mins.
Modern combat coulda been like this but we had to invent gunpowder
Imagining a world where we somehow managed to split the atom without creating gunpowder based weapons. Just dudes with pikes getting vaporized by tactical nukes launched from trebuchets
Imagine nukes being thrown using a fucking catapult :data-laughing:
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I mean that's basically what a Fat Man is lol. It's functionally a mechanical sling shot to toss low yield nukes a hundred yards away
I don't know if it's possible to develop atomic science without stumbling into high-enthalpy chemistry along the way. Much how I don't see post-collapse nuclear waste safeguarding as that big of an issue: if we bury it deep enough in a shaft, and ensure the shaft collapses and fills in after a certain period of disuse, then anyone who can dig that deep will need modern excavating technology, and they'll probably have figured out what radioactivity is along the way.
I'm not sure what the maximum range of any trebuchet is. Probably has to do with wood strength and the object's terminal velocity.
This is essentially Skaven in Warhammer Fantasy, just with Warpstone instead of Nuclear Fission
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Imagine motorcycle cavalry charges
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they definitely wouldn't have used longbows to clear rooms, longbows are hugely inaccurate and are mainly good because they shoot really far and with a lot of force
They are not inaccurate at room scale close range. They are however bulky and difficult to use in close quarters plus if you actually held the string drawn all the time like in the video your arm would be dead in 5 mins.