Heavy piercing weapon

[Gambrill]

I also put this idea of a ballista early in!!! I should be hired as a brain for muse!!! XD just message me for any other good ideas I'm chock full of them

[-Muse- Cullen]

I also put this idea of a ballista early in!!! I should be hired as a brain for muse!!! XD just message me for any other good ideas I'm chock full of them

Go ahead and post them here!

[-Muse- Cullen]

Rope less would definitely work better in the case I was making.
What if it hit with the mass and inertia of a ship ram?

As fun as that would be, I don't know if that would balance well- doing a full front ram with a moonshined goldfish, and then shooting the bolt... the enemy would go back to the future. Likewise, getting hit with two bolts at the same time could cause a ship to slam into a wall with enough force to get stuck and auto-killed.

[Lord Dick Tim]

Sounds like what I do to ships when I ram them anyways, squish them into the terrain.
But I see your point it might cause a bad collision issue on a map like Canyon.  Still, would be super awesome, be like the rail gun in FEAR.

[Machiavelliest]

Sounds like what I do to ships when I ram them anyways, squish them into the terrain.
But I see your point it might cause a bad collision issue on a map like Canyon.  Still, would be super awesome, be like the rail gun in FEAR.

I'm still bitter about that.

I think the sudden imparting of massive velocity to a ship is going to put people inside the buildings on maps with shady collision detection.

[Lord Dick Tim]

Sounds like what I do to ships when I ram them anyways, squish them into the terrain.
But I see your point it might cause a bad collision issue on a map like Canyon.  Still, would be super awesome, be like the rail gun in FEAR.

I'm still bitter about that.

I think the sudden imparting of massive velocity to a ship is going to put people inside the buildings on maps with shady collision detection.

Lol, I had forgotten about that squish ram.  Ya, the more I think on it the more cool and less functional it seems to be.

[NikolaiLev]

Rope less would definitely work better in the case I was making.
What if it hit with the mass and inertia of a ship ram?

This would actually be pretty interesting.  Not that it'd deal impact damage directly, but it would push the ship so it would deal to itself a decent amount.  The amount it'd be pushed would diminish depending on range, yet it'd have a good range, 1000m or so.  So you have a choice of how you want to make use of it.  At range, dual Flak + Field Gun is still a better choice for a Galleon.

It'd be a positioning based weapon.  Goldfishes would use ramming combined with a point blank shot to peel their armor and send them hurtling towards a cliff face.  Spires could use it defensively as a knockback against charging ships, as well as a complement to explosive light weapons like a Flak and a Mortar.

I think it's a good idea.