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Offline Captain Smollett

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #45 on: May 22, 2013, 12:01:33 am »
Or just make it a giant circular saw.  Could you imagine Saw Spires.... that would be fun.

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #46 on: May 22, 2013, 12:15:16 pm »
I saw this on one of awkm's old posts:


They have the technology, but do they dare use it?
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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #47 on: May 22, 2013, 01:03:25 pm »
I saw this on one of awkm's old posts:


They have the technology, but do they dare use it?
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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #48 on: May 22, 2013, 01:04:58 pm »
Or at about a cannon?... Now wait and listen just a huge cannon ball but it has spikes... Hence piercing damage!!!! :D
Impact damage that moved the ship

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #49 on: May 22, 2013, 01:06:17 pm »
I saw this on one of awkm's old posts:


Air Loggers series, anyone?

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #50 on: May 22, 2013, 05:12:21 pm »
You all love my idea of a cannon BUT NO-ONE SALUTE!!! :'(

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #51 on: May 22, 2013, 05:17:53 pm »
but now it'd be a pity Salute, and idk if thats what you want :P

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #52 on: May 22, 2013, 05:48:25 pm »
I want at least one :') pity or no pity at least its a salute xD    anyways i salute officers everyday :/ (R.A.F Engineer) and get nothing back xD

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #53 on: May 22, 2013, 06:05:55 pm »
Man, I feel like clans should have a pact to salute each other.

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #54 on: May 23, 2013, 04:42:05 pm »
Just FYI, medium piercing weapons will severely change meta and upset balance.  This is why I shy away from it.  Once it is introduced... all of the meta changes.  I've thought about it.  I've had nightmares about it.

Medium piercing would require various features to augment its firing mechanism.  The case I want to avoid is a one man Galleon killing machine.  If I follow the trend of heavy weapons, that they are more powerful version of their lighter model, then the heavy piercing gun will likely be almost one shot to strip armor. 

It'd be ridiculously OP... without different firing mechanism.

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #55 on: May 23, 2013, 05:19:12 pm »
I think that a heavy piercing weapon could be effective- make it something like a huge, ropeless harpoon that would do a whole mess of damage to the armor, but only fire one shot per 10 seconds or so. This would make the weapon more strategic than the Gatling as of now, which is just to 'shootshootshootshoot' and 'keep your crosshair on the hull, not the balloon, you silly'. Making it do this burst damage would make it an effective choice, but its reload would want the ship to be at a safer distance away, and its (perhaps) lackluster accuracy would require the ship to be within close range before using. What do you guys think? I believe a single shot device, which contrasts against the machine gun, would work well as a non-spammable armor shredder.

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #56 on: May 23, 2013, 05:22:01 pm »
What if the Ballista bolt had a rope behind it.  All Harpoon Galleon!
:P I didn't read this before I posted my suggestion. Great minds think alike, huh?

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #57 on: May 24, 2013, 01:45:29 am »
A one shot heavy ballista?  With a slow movement and vicious mechanical pull?  It would just reel ships in one clunk at a time, I could see this being a nightmare if your on a goldfish, engines full reverse with kerosene trying to pull a galleon backwards, then all of a sudden the galleon goes full burn backwards with moonshine and butt rams you.
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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #58 on: May 24, 2013, 02:40:57 am »
Ropeless! It wouldn't do any reeling action.

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Re: Heavy piercing weapon
« Reply #59 on: May 24, 2013, 02:52:40 am »
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?