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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months ago

Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

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Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864

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PugJesus@piefed.socialM to HistoryPhotos@piefed.socialEnglish · 3 months ago
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    This has got to be able to rotate, right? The usability of only being able to point along the track would have been very limiting.

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      I imagine it must rotate. If not, it must have been designed for use along a specific turn or series of turns on the track to allow it to adjust angle. “Only can fire forward, no angle” seems far too limiting even for a defensive emplacement.

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        Maybe it was designed to intimidate oncoming union trains…

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      It would be useful if it were chasing a monk, a ninja, and a samurai through the forest of the dead, though it doesn’t look particularly suplex proof…

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      The engineers would build curved track.

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    S L O P E D A R M O R

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    I mean, it seems kind of cool, although not being able to rotate is probably how it got captured. But if you had it parked at the end of a train tunnel, barrel facing towards the tunnel, and tons of troops were advancing through the dark tunnel, it would def do it’s job

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      Oh yeah, trains fighting trains. Never thought about the possibility of a train duel.

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        A train dual seems kind of like a trap. As soon as you get flanked by troops and they can block the tracks you would need to retreat on, your kind of screwed

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    If I didn’t hate AI, I would ask it to generate a train doing a kick flip off the jump that is this canon.

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    Oh look, early wunderwaffen.

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    Them Duke boys found that cannon once. Boss Hog was plum mad.

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