rocketsmith
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rocketsmith

Member, from Latrobe Pa.

I'm starting an arms race. Come on in, the water's fine! Dec 10, 2014

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    1. Astrosaint
      Astrosaint
      Calcium Carbide projectiles ? The kinetic energy imparted on the projectile might be high. How would the internal machinery take it ? Penetrations and sinks would increase dramatically (along with damage that may take time to repair). On the other hand, 150 PSI on BBs packs a good punch already so calcium carbide may not make a difference.
      1. rocketsmith
        rocketsmith
        No. Calcium carbide mixed with water makes acetylene gas, which when mixed with air becomes explosive. They used to make toy cannons that used this idea to make a LOUD bang. As kids we made cannon to shoot tennis balls from old-style pop cans and tape using the fumes from lighter fluid or gasoline.
        Dec 10, 2014
      2. rocketsmith
        rocketsmith
        More recently the military has experimented with fuel-air machine guns using the same principle. The concept is to use the carbide to produce gas to ignite and propel the BBs. Each gun would be a gas-operated smoothe bore firearm, difficult to make, possibly illegal and dangerous as hell, not to mention being a pyrotechnic device.
        Dec 10, 2014
      3. rocketsmith
        rocketsmith
        In short, a joke, but fun to speculate in a what-if way. Yamato. Sink, _then_ explode. Definitely Yamato.
        Dec 10, 2014
    2. rocketsmith
      rocketsmith
      I'm starting an arms race. Come on in, the water's fine!
    3. rocketsmith
      rocketsmith
      Rules that limit or ban ship's capabilities, stifle individual creativity and inventiveness, ultimately harming the hobby.
      1. NickMyers
        NickMyers
        ah yes. that pesky 'no flamethrower' rule. Also the one that prohibits me from shooting above the horizon. That one is no good.
        Dec 10, 2014
      2. rocketsmith
        rocketsmith
        Tell me about it. I was thinking about using calcium carbide to run the main guns. No Freon or CO2 worries, LOUD guns and night actions would have been a blast. Just don't fire the guns to find a sunk ship. Yamato! Still, there would be plenty of fresh fish to grill later. :)
        Dec 10, 2014
      3. NickMyers
        NickMyers
        I'd love to watch a ship with a hopper full of that in its belly sink. From a reasonable distance of course.

        To be most fitting though, perhaps you'd need it to be a british battlecruiser.
        Dec 10, 2014
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    Location:
    Latrobe Pa.
    Occupation:
    Blacksmith
    Formats You Play:
    • None - I haven't battled
    My interest is in Big-Gun Combat, because it allows, for the most part, for the individual to attempt whatever their modeling skills can achieve in equipping their model for combat- what I like to call "Unrestricted Warfare". I want to emulate, as closely and thoroughly as possible, all aspects of naval combat as it was done in the time frame of the hobby, and have fun hunting down murdering Axis scum, keeping the pond safe for democracy. Rules that limit or ban ship's capabilities stifle individual creativity and inventiveness, ultimately harming the hobby, and I will try to change them by showing what is possible, and attracting those poor deluded souls in the darkness of other formats into the light.:D

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