Celestia and Luna go on an unexpected adventure after a drinking contest gone awry. Let’s follow them and see what kind of trouble and adventure our drunken princesses can manage to find!
No actual tanks were stolen in the making of this story. An airplane totally was, though.
Fair warning now, this contains far more headcanon than it probably should. I started writing this in September, well before season four premiered.
Special thanks to two of the authors I edit for, among others, ‘BioChemicalWolfGear’ and ‘CDR’ for helping me turn this from a load of plot hole-filled crap (not that kind of plot, perverts), to slightly less than crap. On a less vague note, I’m thanking them for being awesome and helping with characterization (some of which I blatantly ignored), general errors, and giving me more awesome ideas to help inspire this story along.
Special thanks to these individuals as well, for much the same reasons as those above,
‘Josephdalepony’, ‘Midnight Spark’
Coverart from the awesome Bakki!
Damn, the entire story was written before you finally released it? That's pretty sweet. I'll put this in my read later list for now.
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Yeah, that's why it took so long. Releasing it complete is more my style. Doesn't mean i'm not up to do bonus chapters or anything, though.
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We'll see if I want bonus chapters. XP I might, but I'll need to read it first.
Or she could put the plane down, fly over the fence and then pick it up again.
The vehicle choices were very appropriate: A fast and deadly flyer for the smaller, quicker Luna; A massively powerful and visually intimidating tank for the elder and wiser Celestia.
What tank has a steering wheel? I've never heard of a tank with a steering wheel. Also, manual engines don't work that way. If not holding the clutch and the vehicle is stopped and is in reverse or drive, the engine will stall. If the vehicle is in drive and the brakes are off, the vehicle will slowly roll forward because the engine is still on and is still connected to the transmission.
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This is the steering unit of an M1 Abrams tank. Obviously, I hadn't described it properly. I'm going to leave myself a note to do so tomorrow.
Also, the transmission in the Abrams is an automatic, so there's no clutch to bother with, per source. That doesn't excuse rolling forward, but this is a story about colorful diminutive equines. Some kind of suspension of disbelief has to happen here.
Now, I'm going to assume that post wasn't as condescending as it appeared to be written, nor does this one, and thank you for your criticism. It has been taken into account, and edits will be made accordingly.
wow. good story so far keep it up!
5558495 the Abrams has a form of steering yoke. It works similarly to a steering wheel. R Lee Ermey put it nicely: it's just like driving a car.
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just of note, the WWII German Tiger 1 had a steering wheel.
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Oh no are they gonna drive it?!
Nice meme
I understand why Celestia feel that way, for a mare who got used to peace instead of violence.
Is there a sequel?
Wu-wuwha-h wait! Is that... An A10 pulling an Abrams... With literal rope... While being shot at by more 30mm form other A10's? Not only should've the Abram's sank, but I'm pretty sure the tank's 105 or 120mm gun alone would've sank the A10 by sheer weight...
Just... how? Heck, the Abrams should've sunk in the water alone, considering how heavy modern MBT's are... It's not an IFV...
This makes my brain hurt...
I'm definitely gonna read this later, this feels like comedy gold.
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Right? It's such an absurd mental image I had one evening, I had to write a story about it.
Where are the Abrames? Where are the sluggishly slow A10 variants? COME TO ME FASTER COMEDY—
Charges full force into next chapter
Also, Bad Discord! Casting while under the influence, Bad! Tia should revoke your advanced teleportation certificate!
Why of course it’s not flat Tia. You see, by slopping the frontal armpit of a tank, you can increase the amount of amour a kentic round with have to penetrate, as well as increase chances of ricochet. Though good luck trying to ricochet modern apfsds, that dart literally turns into dust while penetrating, you either get a penetration or shell shatter.
Good luck trying to use chemical shells like HEAT and HESH, it’s composite amour. Don’t even try HE unless it’s a being rough shell to over pressure and you hit say the roof of the turret.
You see, Tia, APFSDS simply means it fires an amour penetrating shell that is stabilized with fins. To increase penetration, the shell discards a good portion of the sabot, leaving only a flying dark going 1500 meters per second on the low end, probably 2000+ for the 120mm smooth bore of the Abrams.
Well, you see Tia, HEAT works by… you can see where this is going.
Momentum? What? Abrams face stabilization!
Abrams have blow out panels? Even if the shell hit the ammunition, unless the loader was loading it only shouldve started cooking the ammunition.
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There's actually two parts to this particular description. The hit was directly to the ammunition rack, which depending on the hit will either cook off, or detonate. This was the latter, and the force caused the turret to fly off. This is a real life phenomena.
Depending on the variant of the Abrams it may have had a blow-out rack where the weakest point wasn't into the turret and cabin, but out and away. Not all variants have this.
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Also for this, gyrostabilizers are only so good. Rapid momentum changes can and will still cause shots to miss as the gyro can only compensate so fast.
Lessened learned: Always cast magic under the influence! It wins your wars! - Discord
Oh well, laughs aside this was fun short adventure. Poor hoomans must’ve been confused after all that.
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Meanwhile:
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Poot crew, out of curiosity what did Tia fire? I don’t think either apfsds or heat could’ve gotten through the turret unless it was through the breach(somehow) or turret ring.
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I didn't have any specifics for that, but it likely was a lucky hit HEAT shell that dropped into the turret ring, or down the barrel for just playing up the intensity of the fight. Might've hit the commander's viewports, those are weaker too.
As well, the Leo 2 may have a better gyro as it's newer. A lot of the fight is played up for drama, while still being grounded in (theoretically) realistic capabilities of the equipment.
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That’s true enough. Though, when you mention the commanders view port, I get flash backs of German panzer cupolas…
Funny thing, I once made the mistake in a game of thinking Leopard 2’s had high firepower and mobility but low amour like the Leopard 1. My poor, poor tank and repair cost… oh, and the crew. That too.