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Welcome to your first arms race, Twi. With any luck, technological development will skip decades and everything will be all the better for it afterwords.
5247380 Magitech thermo-kinetic reciprocal energy shields (Mark 5, standard issue, IEG Power Source (Impact Energy Gathering)) are the second best solution to being shot at, right after sabotaging every weapon in existence.
Like I keep saying. Make Magic Bullets. Just imagine a bullet of the current make and then make it capable of say letting loose a electric discharge that can temporarily fry a targets motor functions. Or maybe with sleep spells so you don't need to go for kill shots but shoot to disable. You just need to find the happy place where you can combine magic with these guns.
5247410
How about skipping all that and just going for something that absorbs and disperses the force of impact?
Eye fund a ear ore.
5247419
Better still, weaponised All incoming rounds get turned into confetti.
5247419 Techno-babble strikes again!
Magitech: magic based technology
thermo-kinetic: related to heat and kinetic energy
reciprocal: that returns what is taken
energy: and is not physical
shields: shields
Mark 5, standard issue: mass produced for personal use
Impact Energy Gathering: draws energy from impacts against the shields
I could have summed it up like you did, but I like being a smart-ass
Bucky then invents hyper-advanced powered assault armor, with a battle harness capable of holding his choosing of weaponry.
'The griffons THAT returned to us' or Lyra-Talk?
Maybe 'to take' or 'to look'?
5247587
The griffons that the Sea of Grass returned.
5247613
Ah, that way around. My bad.
griffons' (it's a plural possessive)
So when is somepony going to create an area-effect spell that causes the metals used in the projectile casings to expand slightly, rendering all guns in that area not only unfireable, but probably very dangerous to attempt to fire? (Sounds like a thing Lyra might come up with, maybe?)
5247545
Bucky then makes 999 more suits of similar armour, allowing many great warriors to be dropped onto the battlefield from spess, multiple simultaneous deep strikes. This maneuver shall be called 'Stehl Rehn'.
5247681 ...
*tentatively speaks* 'Hooves first into... Tarturus'?
5243578
kilokobe? what is a kobe? if you mean it would'nt take much to make him vlad the impaler, then sure
5247712
Kobe was an athlete who got in trouble when a woman came forward and said that he raped her. After that, a whole bunch of women came forward as well, and there was a huge scandal.
It's like in Order of the Stick, where one character's evil was measured in kilonazis.
Ear oars! Ear oars ehrywear!
5247666 Or just magnetize all of their ammo. It would all stick together, it wouldn't go in the chamber, it would keep trying to stick to the inside of the barrel when firing... all sorts of shenanigans there.
5248058 I meant I liked what you were insinuating about the future of Loch.
5248077
Oh!
I see. See, the emoticon didn't convey much about context. **sheepish look**
5247419 All wrong! The proper solution is having more and bigger guns then them.
Also the griffons do not seem to have invented explosive shells yet (odd? Grenades and mines were the very first applications of rapid-burning gunpowder), but Bucky has. Magical explosive shells which could do very, very nasty things.
And I would be surprised if it didn't go that way. Bucky has an arms race, an army of griffon engineers and crafts...birdies, highly weaponizable enchantment skills and plenty of immoral, cruel ingenuity.
"Something with destructive power that rivals magic".............that made me facepalm to be honest dude. the answer is as obvious as a diamond dog at the gala ballroom. it could easily bne reversed by using a weapon only lethal to those holding guns or near powder stores. use magic ti ignite the gunpowder.......... i mean that is just what bucky did. it would barely take the energy of a torhc, hell, a match to create the needed reaction.
5248064
Bullet construction generally doesn't use ferrous metals, so they wouldn't be magnetic, and it would take an extreme level of magnetism to overcome the propulsion of the gunpowder anyway.
this is where the fun thing about this kind of warfare comes along. at this point you simply can't make thick enough armor to survive the kind of punishment that the weapons can dish out so instead of trying to find a counter to the damage you simply go by the old "they can't kill you if they are dead" and make guns that are even more accurate, with faster rate of fire and better punch. seriously, at this point you won't have more military innovation aside the modern tank that isn't just either a better gun or a better bomb.
magic of course thrown a wild card in the mix and i look forward to see what you do with it.
5248259
You need to be able to see your enemy.
5248310 that or have a magic that detects gunpowder. create a potion that causes gunpowder to ignite then release it as a mist. kinda like a non lethalish gas attack. only lethal if you are holding a gun or near gunpowder barrels.
alternatively a magic barrier with that 'scans' for gunpowder and creates a small combustive reaction if detected. bullets, gunpowder stores, cannons, all gonna blow up, and the barrier would need relatively little energy to sustain as well as it needs only detect and use a small amount of energy to ignite.
gunpowder is only a chemical reaction. you simply need to use a magic or potion that creates that reaction.
5247414
until another country learnes how to duplicate them and a whole new ring of spies are created with the ability to quickly dispatch powerful unicorns like bucky and capture them
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I figured Kobe Bryant would become a unti of measurement someday, but not this soon
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Range is still an issue. Most unicorns will not be able to counter a gun from almost a mile away. Even strong type threes will have trouble making spells work at that distance.
5248369 a mile all that is needed at first. cause once the warships start exploding and the ground troops are getting their rifles exploded into their faces they are gonna panic like fuck. and keeping how they are making the gunpowder explode a secret would make the enemy far too scared to fight. spell could be perfected and the range increased, or even use something to magnify magical reaction like bucky does with his false horn and or find a method to create an imbedded, sustained spell.
the real killer would be the potion gas. release that on ground forces and they would be massacred by theri own weapons. heck you could releease it on an oxccupied town and mostly spare all the civilians, yours or the enemy, this way.
put simply create a weapon that destroys gunpowder itself and everyone wil abandon that weapon................
suddenly i am imagining luna flying through an enemy force using that theoretically antigunpowder barrier, destroying and igniting gunpowder as she flies by simply being there.
5248369 also the point is to not counter the gun, but make the gun unable to function propwerly. ultimately the cartridge design is the weakness of these guns. a musket would misfire at this spell. the cartridges of these guns would all ignite at once.
You need Unicorn cleverness, sneak into the factory and enchant the gunpowder with heat activated want it-need it. Fun times ahead ;)
Here: Get every single willing Unicorn and channel a 'Fuck up gunpowder' spell through them.
Also, finally caught up.
5248078 And I was so sure that emoticon wouldn't be miscontrued. Shows what I know
So... Sabotage enemy weapons or make even bigger guns...
You know what many of us will choose right?
MAKE EVEN BIGGER GUNS!!
Though guns are indeed rather easy to sabotage, just get them wet before battle.
I'm not sure if guns "now" can withstand the conditions an ak-47 can.
5248867 was thinking using magic to initiate combustion in the gunpowder. would take little more than a match flame to completely destroy a store of gunpowder.
perfect combination of sabotage and explosions.
And welcome to the problem of industrial weaponry, and why I was hoping really hard guns weren't going to become a 'thing' in the Chase. Not every world needs to have the old arms race. There's nothing interesting or glorious or necessary about it. Destroying the noble houses and the Griffon kings created a power vacuum that Bucky as the Alicorn of War was meant to replace and trump. The Fates and his own selfish thick-headedness is going to allow this to remain an issue longer than it needs to be.
Farewell medieval-modern fantasy setting I loved. ;-;
5248968
Just wait on that judgement.
5249130
Unless Celestia and Luna invent a "Delete The Concept of Firearms From Existence Forever" spell, Equestria is pretty much fucked unless Bucky gets off his ass and ascends. In the race to outdo your neighbor, the land suffers, health suffers, people suffer. Permanent damage is done to society, quality of life, the environment - because the divisiveness of /everyone/ having widespread destructive potential requires everyone to keep gaining 'more' so they can try to reach and stay on top. This is the problem without a definitive "Cannot be toppled, the rest of you watch your step" Alpha-Deterrent telling everyone else that they need to sit down and be peaceful or else.
Hoping you're going to introduce new variables that settle things without the current most plausible outcome coming to pass. I was enjoying the setting without the same foolishness of humanity poisoning things.
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Except it has been pretty much been confirmed by the Cosmic God Alicorn that Bucky Ascending will cause an end to everything so then CGA can recreate the local cosmos into a new working order. Bucky Ascending is worse than guns. Hell, Bucky Ascending is worse than nukes.
5249764
Bucky is going to do something worse than Celestia or Luna inventing a forget firearms spell.
5247414
So... make video game bullets?
5250418
A 'really really really wish you had forgotten firearms' spell?
5251719
More like a 'wish your species never crawled out of the ocean and evolved' spell.
5251824
Tradewinds is democratic. Sort of. Mostly.
Except when the Three Sisters make their feelings known.
But nopony has seen the Three Alicorn Sisters for centuries. They disappeared one day and told the citizens of the Sea of Grass to look after themselves.
Oh...messy, messy, messy. I suppose Equestria might have to rise up and genocide another nation for an example to the rest of the world, maybe level a few diamond dog nations.
Also, is there any sapient Vipren species?
5252100 No, I'm talking IRL here. No in Chaseverse.
All I got from this was that any humans from 1937+ would destroy Equestria.
6325163 not just 1937+ more like 1880+, the griffons only just made repeating rifles, imagine what a Gatling gun or bolt action rifles could do in this universe!