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SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by CdnGunner   » Mon Oct 03, 2016 10:21 pm

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Looking in the Glossary, there is going to be another new weapon: Kau-yung's striker (aka, a flamethrower)
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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by Dilandu   » Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:37 am

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CdnGunner wrote:Looking in the Glossary, there is going to be another new weapon: Kau-yung's striker (aka, a flamethrower)


Not the best idea. They are impressive, yes, but only in close combat, and they could be relatively easy reverse-engineered by the Church.
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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by OlorinNight   » Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:55 am

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Still, if the ICA is going to face heavy fortifications, flamethrowers can prove quite useful. The marines used them quite effectively against the japanese army during WWII.
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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by Larry   » Tue Oct 04, 2016 3:58 am

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CdnGunner wrote:Looking in the Glossary, there is going to be another new weapon: Kau-yung's striker (aka, a flamethrower)


I think I found one other note of interest in the Glossary "Bombsweeper".

I do believe that many have speculated on the possibility of Dohlar (and others) using navel mines to aid in harbor or waterway defense. Seems like someone must have if the ICN has a ships designation for minesweepers. Congratulations to all those that argued for this possibility. It appears you all have presumed correctly.

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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by Larry   » Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:05 am

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Dilandu wrote:
CdnGunner wrote:Looking in the Glossary, there is going to be another new weapon: Kau-yung's striker (aka, a flamethrower)


Not the best idea. They are impressive, yes, but only in close combat, and they could be relatively easy reverse-engineered by the Church.

I'm sure they could. But flamethrowers are most effective against fixed fortifications, and the Charisian strategy is one of mobility. Against a mobile infantry force with mortars, they're just not all that useful.

Besides, if things move fast enough, the temple boys will never get the chance.

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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by Henry Brown   » Tue Oct 04, 2016 1:58 pm

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Dilandu wrote:
CdnGunner wrote:Looking in the Glossary, there is going to be another new weapon: Kau-yung's striker (aka, a flamethrower)


Not the best idea. They are impressive, yes, but only in close combat, and they could be relatively easy reverse-engineered by the Church.


Dilandu, you missed the point. The text preview of At the Sign of Triumph is up on Amazon as of this morning. It includes portions of the glossary. CdnGunner is not speculating about flamethrowers, he is saying that the glossary of AST directly refers to flamethrowers as "Kau-yung's striker." Therefore, they are introduced.
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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by n7axw   » Tue Oct 04, 2016 11:57 pm

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Henry Brown wrote:

Dilandu, you missed the point. The text preview of At the Sign of Triumph is up on Amazon as of this morning. It includes portions of the glossary. CdnGunner is not speculating about flamethrowers, he is saying that the glossary of AST directly refers to flamethrowers as "Kau-yung's striker." Therefore, they are introduced.


Does it say which side did the introducing?

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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by CdnGunner   » Wed Oct 05, 2016 12:35 am

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n7axw wrote:Does it say which side did the introducing?Don


No, it does not.

However, given that it is another Kau-Yung named device, I am fairly confident that it will be Charis. They are further along in handling compressed air.
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Re: SPOILER: New weapon?
Post by Henry Brown   » Wed Oct 05, 2016 3:58 am

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CdnGunner wrote:
n7axw wrote:Does it say which side did the introducing?Don


No, it does not.

However, given that it is another Kau-Yung named device, I am fairly confident that it will be Charis. They are further along in handling compressed air.


Yes, I agree. If the church was introducing it, then it would be named for either Langhorn or Schueler.
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