The residents of New Humansville continue to work toward a better and more stable society in their new home of Equestria, before the big announcement of their existence by Princess Celestia and Princess Luna to the rest of the world.
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Frankly I find it ridiculous that the pony military would not have figured out camoflauge. Their tech is not as advanced as human tech, but along the sliding scale they'd have camo figured out.
NO YOU'RE NOT! Gah, I know it's in quotations and anything goes there, but damn I get angry when literally is midused.
And they did not even THINK to get a medic on standby? Or was there one already there and I missed it?
5389950 ... my use of the word 'literally' is in fact proper. The definition of invisible is:
not visible; not perceptible by the eye
I used the word properly, sir.
Why would Ponies even consider camouflage? They are built to be as visible as possible, They know how to use stealth to remain unnoticed, but the idea of camouflage for them is unnatural.
5389969 Invisible, not able to be seen. People in camo aren't invisible, as they still can be seen in theory. It's just extremely unlikely, but it's doable.
I'd argue that the ponies being colorful (Maybe they're poisonous?) would be an even larger reason for them to adopt camouflage, since they can think tactically, and they would look at themselves and say 'That's a weakness'.
Ponies have cannons. They tend to load them with confetti, but the technology is not unknown to them.
5390018 ONLY Pinkie has a cannon, however they do know what one is so the basis is there. I merely built upon it.
5390050 Cheese Sandwich had some kind of self propelled artillery. It's okay. The AU tag covereth a multitude of sins.
5389950 on the show, the goods guys always seemed to be afflicted with a sense of "honorable" combat. Sombra is the only on on the show who ever demonstrated any creativity with combat magic. Everyone else employs about as much strategy as you'd see in an old-timey flintlock duel. Celestia's fight with Chrysalis is the best example. Any human soldier would have shot Chrysalis in the back of the head while she was cackling and monologuing.
I'll wager the concept of the gun is disturbing to the princesses.
I like it but why Gryo-jets? They are known to be inferior to just regular old bullets. Mostly from the slow initial speed of the rocket causes even minor errors in holding your gun steady to be magnified. That is the rocket is in the barrel much longer than a bullet would be thus you have to hold the guy completely on target for the entire duration from initial trigger pull to the rocket leaving the barrel.
Wouldn't regular bullets (and rifled barrels) be so much easier to do?
This if from a complete gun nerd, I'm curious.
5390681 The barrels are rifled in a sense. The stabilizing fins on the gyrojet rounds have a fixed groove which spirals along the inside of the barrel. The reason they decided on gyrojets was because the formula for modern gunpowder flakes is a secret held by ammo corporations. Gun cotton is easy to make however and is the perfect propellant for the gyrojet rounds as it produces a lot of gas and burns very quickly. The rounds don't stay in the barrel for very long even with gyrojet rounds, so the differentiation with aim should be negligible. It was simply a matter of what could be done given the resources and knowledge. Black powder would be a nightmare to try to use for full-auto. You would have bullets exploding in the barrels, and jamming up the feeds, and that film all over everything... beside try to fire full-auto black powder and you'd be standing in a blanket of smoke in half a second.
I'm like you, a believer in the Second Amendment. I own two guns and my wife owns one as well. We love to go shooting and having a 'duty weapon' is rather mandatory for me with my line of work. I also know a few things about guns, which is why I did my homework for this part. I feel the need to brag a bit, my lever-action Marlin .30-.30 is a Model 1889 and some goon who had no idea what he had, sold it to me for 189.00 $.
*hugs rifle like a baby*
MY PRECIOUS!
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Fair enough, although the slow speed of the start of the rockets is one of the reasons they never took off IRL. The other is the large size needed for the ammo and the fact that for the space used by the ammo you don't get a lot of bang for your buck.
Full auto black powder was done, in the gatlings, and yeah produced huge amount of smoke. Having a lever action chambered in .45-70 would be more practical for a lot of things than the gyro-jets for your average shooter. Harder hitting, somewhat smaller ammo (not by much considering the damn lead sausages that .45-70 is) and it's a black powder round originally. I mean you can kill bears with it so it's got to at least annoy a manticore right ;)
5391151 True enough, but there is no way I'd ever see any Kavim trying to fire a .45-70 without falling over and imagine the stains to their bodies from trying to clean one. I'll admit the gyrojet isn't exactly ideal, but they made due with what they had.
Earth Ponies can advance while Melded?
Morters. Barrage pattern.
Parachute delay penetrator rounds.
While at university on a degree chemistry course, I had a quick look at black powder, using the formula given in my 1950s childrens books on how to learn. Then, used the detail stuff and Gibbs etc to calculate an accurate mix, and a grease instead of carbon mix. Best I could get was only 15% higher energetics, gas generation etc. Result, still a very messy, black smoke emmitter.
Impressed athow someone from the Kabul streets ended up there so their years of using shovels to make AKs could be used on the other mechanisms.
Weird, not only did this chapter not show up in chapter notifications, but the notification didnt show up in the notification count.
Two years after they made their guns, it should be looking more like thisi.ytimg.com/vi/t6CXAaI1OAo/hqdefault.jpg
And shortly thereafter, a young Pegasus colt was born in New Humanville. His name was Bunker Buster.
Truthseeker, look up the Metal Storm system. That would do everything they want, simpler.
5392318 Metal Storm? What is it?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Storm
Caseless ammo and no moving parts. The bullets and solid propellant are stacked inside a tube with electric ignition mechanisms at regular intervals, so the tube serves as barrel, chamber, and magazine. Basically shoots as fast as you could want, mitigates the problem of ammo cooking off early, scales really well, and you can put as many barrels side by side as you want.
In this setting, magic provides easy solutions to the metallurgic and electronic how tos. Only drawback is they'd have to carry extra, preloaded barrel assemblies for quick reloads.
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There's videos of these things in action on youtube. They live up to the name.
I'd have been happy with a pair of single action revolvers, and a lever action rifle, but Morris and Jason are picky.
5394066 If FedEx and U.P.S. merged, would the resulting company be called FedUPS?
Bad Truthseeker! Bad! Clips are the little things you use to hold papers together, or to hold a bag of chip closed. Not ammo! Magazine. It's a Magazine. Silly author.
5395737 >.>
Clip is the thing that hold bullets together and you use it to load said bullets into the gun's magazine.
Mosin Nagant, Garand, Springfield, SKS, Lee-Enfield, Kar98k...All of them have clips...which can be used to load into their magazine.
These are clips.
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These are magazines.
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Do the constructs have to be dispelled, or is meat back on the menu?
As far as I know, a suite is in a hotel or something, a suit is something you wear.
How in the world did they came up with the blueprints for submachine guns, pistols, assault rifles and shotguns? How long exactly were they working on this? Seemed to have sneaked by my attention. The chemicals alone are hard enough to get without a proper lab, but the alloys for weapons are as far as I know, not mere forged iron or steel. Every gunsmith needs machinery or tools for this. Or did they shape the components of the firearms with their newfound magic capabilities?
Also that chapter title...
Every time I read this, I'm a little bit sad that Morris didn't quote Army of Darkness. The setup could not have been any more perfect.
I... Have a great deal of trouble believing that they were able to make semi automatic weapons. Especially with no tools with which to make them. Percussion caps alone need a rather well equipped chemical lab, and aluminum nitrate is as far beyond gun cotton as an ICBM is beyond a trebuchet.
Single shot rifles using minie balls and flintlocks are believable. If the chemical percussion caps were dealt with, a breechloader is believable. But a semi auto? The industry needed for that is not.
And gyrojet rounds that actually hit something? Nope. Big huge nope. Not going too deep into why, but they just don't work without a lot more technology than they have. Heck, the changing mass profile of the rocket from launch to impact would cause tumbling. Fins or no fins.
On a more story related note... I'm concerned that this is turning into a huge "humans are teh bestz" story now.
HELL YEAH!
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Celestia: “Who needs camouflage when there are the typical magic rings like the one Sauron used to make himself invisible? Just one of the dozen or so prizes anypony can find in your usual Cracker Jack box ”
All the humans: “”
Uh oh...... when a Marine smiles like that, RUN
11038317 I am so glad to see you are enjoying the series! Things are about to get very intereeting, and I think you'll like it.