HFQ Snippet 27[?] a

lyonheart wrote:Wow!

Thank you so very much RFC!

Hi Yatespsi,

Welcome and please enjoy your favorite simulated beverage on the simulated forum.

Given OWL and Nahrmahn are watching Lincoln like a hawk, NTM Rhobair, I doubt very much this is a surprise to the inner circle.

Rather the question might more accurately be phrased as which allied army gets to use their rockets first?

Given Charis has been using rockets for around 2&1/2 years, I suspect that various Charisians starting with Cayleb if not Alfred, have been thinking about explosive rockets far sooner than Brother Lincoln, and have developed at least a couple of varieties, but haven't used them yet to avoid letting the Go4 copy them as quickly as they could, besides not having the proper kind of targets that such unguided rockets prefer.

Its still going to take month's to test, perfect and produce reliable rockets, NTM send them to the front, wherever that is by then; which will be plenty of time to ship large lots of the ICA's rockets from Charis to Siddarmark and use them before the Go4 does, if they haven't already, plus Siddarmark could probably produce many more after the Go4's committed to their design.

The main problem for the Go4 armies besides finding the ICA's first since they don't have scout snipers, is figuring out the indirect fire mathematics then systematizing it so soldiers can do it.

Which will take a little algebra and trigonometry they don't have, and may not get unless Clyntahn being so eager to fulfill his visions of such carnage puts all of the best CoGA mathematicians, astronomers, engineers and surveyors etc on the project.

Even then how long will it take them to come up with several centuries of mathematical and military concept breakthroughs?

Merlin is probably laughing up his sleeve after viewing the imagery; all that research and innovative thinking is just what he wants!

Edwyrd is probably saying finally, now we get to use ours!

While Rock Point can use the incendiaries to set fire to all the Desnari schooner yards!

Then there's the question of where Nahrmahn and OWL might interfere if he/they thought the Go4 were making advances too quickly; ie changing their blackboard notes, corrupting the fuel formula and experimental data and or production and transportation accidents...

Given how good Nynian and Merlin's spies are, I doubt the ICA won't be earned and ready when the time comes.

L

But when I started looking at this —” the Chihirite tapped the disk on his desk “— I realized that what it does is to . . . focus and direct the gasses spitting out of the back of the rocket. It shapes and regulates them, and I suspect the reason is to impart a spin to the entire rocket, the way rifling grooves spin and stabilize a bullet or an artillery shell

Or, put another way, the bore could be extended clear through the receiver and, with the breech screw dropped to the loading position, a cartridge could be inserted from the rear in a straight-line, natural path, exactly the same way the heretics loaded their rifles.

Duchairn frowned again, wishing Maigwair could have been present after all. The last time he’d spoken to the captain general, Maigwair had waxed eloquent in his enthusiasm for the full-sized rifled angle-guns Fultyn had designed for the Army of God. Frankly, Duchairn doubted that Fultyn’s initial efforts would match the performance of the heretics’ weapons, yet it was obvious Maigwair expected them to compensate for much of Church’s present inferiority. At the same time, it was unlikely more than a few score of the new weapons could be gotten to the armies in the field before the spring thaw, and even if they could, the heretics and their infantry angle-guns had delivered a pointed lesson in the advantages of mobility.

“What do you have in mind, Brother Lynkyn?” he asked finally, and the Chihirite opened a desk drawer and extracted a circular disk of what looked like bronze. It was about four inches in diameter, Duchairn estimated, and perhaps a half-inch thick, and pierced by a series of angled slots or holes.

isaac_newton wrote:

Duchairn frowned again, wishing Maigwair could have been present after all. The last time he’d spoken to the captain general, Maigwair had waxed eloquent in his enthusiasm for the full-sized rifled angle-guns Fultyn had designed for the Army of God. Frankly, Duchairn doubted that Fultyn’s initial efforts would match the performance of the heretics’ weapons, yet it was obvious Maigwair expected them to compensate for much of Church’s present inferiority. At the same time, it was unlikely more than a few score of the new weapons could be gotten to the armies in the field before the spring thaw, and even if they could, the heretics and their infantry angle-guns had delivered a pointed lesson in the advantages of mobility.

“What do you have in mind, Brother Lynkyn?” he asked finally, and the Chihirite opened a desk drawer and extracted a circular disk of what looked like bronze. It was about four inches in diameter, Duchairn estimated, and perhaps a half-inch thick, and pierced by a series of angled slots or holes.

So this is where that Tiny snippet from April came from. So who was right in their guesses on that?


It is things like that and the toughness of the soldiers at St Esthyr’s, even under such a shock attack, that make me feel that HFQ is not just going to be a stroll in the park.

Tho glad to see that Kaitswyrth is not feeling quite so 'boisterous'

Philip Stanley wrote:Great Post! We're up to page 128 of the final book. Fantastic!
Just one thing - this new post represents a change of scene, but somehow the subchapter heading got omitted. For those of you who are as compulsive as me, the correct heading should read:

.XI.
St. Kylmahn’s Foundry
City of Zion
Temple Lands

Thank you, great Ambler With Rhubarb!
Philip Stanley

n7axw wrote:

isaac_newton wrote:
So this is where that Tiny snippet from April came from. So who was right in their guesses on that?


It is things like that and the toughness of the soldiers at St Esthyr’s, even under such a shock attack, that make me feel that HFQ is not just going to be a stroll in the park.

Tho glad to see that Kaitswyrth is not feeling quite so 'boisterous'

The only thing they have added so far that worries me at all are those rockets. Hopefully eberyone who might have to face them will be forewarned.

Don