I only have experience in video games, and in the vast majority of them the chainshot is the most OP shot type you can use. Enemies can't escape or evade you if their masts have all been cut in half. π
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I was gonna pick bar shot for similar reasons. I feel like the flexible chain would allow for too much loss of energy. Pure guess though, IANA 18th century naval warfare expert
Not with that attitude, you won't be. :)
In Sid Meier's Pirates! it was the objectivity correct choice 99% of the time. Even a tiny ship could take out a ship of the line with a few well-placed chain shot barrages, and ships would pretty much always surrender the instant they lost their mast.
I think the story battles were an exception to the instant surrender rule, but without their sails you could switch to grape shot and pepper their helpless vessel until they had no crew left, then board for an instant victory.
I miss that game. I should redownload it and see how it holds up.
In that game the OP tactic was ramming war ships with a canoe (it sails faster than cannonballs fly so you can evade them), then beating up the captain so his 2000 trained Marines will surrender to your 50 brigands.
I could never get the timing down on the dueling minigame. Chain shot is risk-free (and cost-free since dueling risks your crew), plus the dueling minigame gets harder as your character gets older but your sailing muscle memory remains reliable forever.
The dueling minigame goes into muscle memory, as well.
And it uses the same timing, mechanics and keys as the dancing minigame.
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Chain shot but it has to be fired from a double barrel cannon
He considered the test firings a success! Can't help but feel happy for him.
He wrecked shit and killed a cow. Banger.
If you made this today, but with precision ignition system and lightweight ultra high tensile wire rope, it would be catastrophic for that cow.
You mean it would be killed more instantaneously?
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"It blew up and almost killed us, perfect."
This looks like a success to me. Just imagine this: replace the thicket with the enemy army, you fire one shot and the rest of the army retreats.
From the descriptions of the aftermath, I can see where the mangler squigs got their inspiration from.
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All my homies love grape shot
Grape shot is for shredding ship hulls. At close ish range it blows through the hull turning it into foot long slivers impaling everyone behind it. Cannister is more anti personnel, and smaller.
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I gotta go with round shot.
it really says βfuck you and your boat, I donβt even want to steal it from youβ
Carcass is cool too I guess. But itβs no 6β hole punched through the hull.Β
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bar shot, because it also implies the existence of giants with piercings
I'm just imagining giantess pierced nipples
My day has markedly improved. I be in my bunk
It fucking depends on the target weakness bro.
Mats and spars? Bar.
Rigging? Chain.
Crew during close action? Grape.
Clearing the decks with the quarterdeck swivel gun before boarding? Canister.
Hulling below the water line, long distance attempts, and knocking away their guns? Round.
Canister shot all the way. Imagine having to charge a cannon position firing this stuff?
Best one is a round shot, but only if Baron Munchausen is ridding it.
Loved this Gilliam banger as a kid. Robin Williams, Uma Thurman, and Gilliam's Monty Python alum Eric Idle are in it for those who haven't seen. As an adult I see a lot of parallels with that movie and Tarsem's "The Fall" (2006). They're giving hopeful yet melancholic fairy tale energy.
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The chain shot looks like it could hurt
I imagine it spiraling
Chain shot was principally to take out rigging on ships, to leave them unable to steer and all that.
Cross their T and rake the decks with grape shot!
I came here for the drink damnit. I want something that does this
Its effects are similar to "having your brains smashed out by a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick."
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shibari shot~~~
Canister shot.
I thought of something else when I saw the grape shot.
Deadly shibari
Can someone make an copy of this but bar shot is clearly a nipple peircing.
Don't forget Hot Shot (heated shot).
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