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Santa Bucky
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More like Krampus if you make him angry or you've been naughty.
We need fan art of those golems stat! Loved this chapter. Thanks Kudz!
But yet to be activated
(Two army officers look through a weapons catalogue)
"What's B-14 do?"
"Says here it vaporizes everything but the gold fillings in their teeth. Helps pay for the war effort."
"Well, bring that puppy up!"
(over intercom) "Bring up B-14."
(A whoosh is heard. Several minutes later, a muffled explosion can be heard.)
" ... Cool. So what's B-15 do?"
Little known fact: Crossbow doesn't have what you would call a 'recoil'...
When you shoot, it has a bit of a 'reversed recoil'...Not all that much but, it's there. Due to the force of the bow? and the string going forward.
Guarantee not guaranteed.
needs an 'of'
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No, Krampus will be Belisama shortly.
I'll see myself out now....
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Compound crossbows with several hundred pounds of pull most certainly have some recoil.
If you make them from ultralight composites, the stock will raise several inches as it is being fired and kill your aim. You want it to stay still. Or at least steady.
5768383 Think of it as 'Recoil in reverse' and you will know what I meant.
Instead of kick back, it kick forward...not much but it kick and knock your aim out a bit.
I have watched many demonstrate video and not one of them have crossbow that kick back like a gun.
Almost same thing with a rocket launcher really...the force of the rocket propulsion and the kick of launching the rocket cancel out each other...
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https://beckettcrossbows.wordpress.com/2011/05/12/6-factors-all-crossbow-buyers-should-know/
Number five.
Youtube has many videos with measured recoil on many different types of xbows.
5768402 I'm not sure if it talked about the gun's recoil or the crossbow's reversed recoil...
avalible in all the firearm stores near you, can be painted to match you personal coat color and cutie mark.
BUT WAIT, THERE IS MORE!!!
only if you order them now via the phone for only 999.99 Bits, you will get not one BUT TWO golems
YOU HEARED ME RIGHT
your own 2 personal golems of mass destruction that can make you tea while killing everyone else
BUT WAIT!!! if you order them within the next hour we will throw in a free flamethrower for each of the golems, thats right... you get 2 golems + 2 flamethrowers and an over night shipping
ORDER YOUR GOLEMS TODAY
*places an order of 10 mark XIV for my cave*
*orders half a legion of Mark XIVs* ... What? I need to make an army SOMEHOW.
So he declares war on guns, then goes and makes a projectile weapon even more dangerous than them? Sounds logical.
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It is a test weapon for new technologies. Just wait...
5768565 Crossbows are very different from automatic fire weapons....while you can give 5 minutes of training to anyone and make him an unstopable force using an automatic weapon in this medival-like tecnologic world, a crossbow requires extensive training to master. Scorch stated this before: the weapon, per si, is not the problem. The problem is they kill the intention of training, master the killing skills, to learn of being responsible for being able to kill others. If using fire weapons would need such training and responsability learning, they could be aloowed.
5768610 True, but there is still the possibility of automatic/semi-automatic crossbows ala D&D repeater style.
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How about the real world Chinese chu ko nu? Not a fantasy weapon.
5768696 Wow, didn't know it was that old of an idea. If they weren't so isolationist the Chinese could have taken over the world back then with all the tech they had.
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Only flaw in your pitch is the fact that "firearm stores" sell blackpowder weapons (that use fire). If golems are there, it's because they are reducing the inventory.
For reference i believe that blacksmiths make weapons, and fletchers make bows. Not totally sure, because, I mean, Rising Star made Belisama's afterall. Perhaps the golems would be categorized more like wagon accesories or a household appliance since that is how they seem to be used here.
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If you happen to see a mark X or higher golem at your local firearms dealer, it is advised that you turn around and go home. The inventory is now being liquidated... in a sense.
A mark X or higher is a combat model, and it means that the peaceful methods of disarming the threat have failed. The source of the problem is now being dealt with. Do not be associated with the source of the problem. Thank you, and remember, for all of your automation needs, please see a Winterworx associate.
5769013 that is where you are wrong dear sir,
due to the ban on gun powder most firearm shops had closed and the ones that didn't had to turn them selfs into a new concept, if you can't sell firearms, sell the things that are there to ban them. Aka the Golem
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Not available to the general public. For the mark X models and higher, you need a Whiskey Tango Foxtrot level of security clearance and a thorough mind testing from Luna and Bucky.
Do you have a criminal background or have you committed questionable acts?
Congratulations! You've been discovered. You've gone numb because the security golems have injected you with a paralytic compound made from exotic zebra compounds. Winterworx cares enough to give you the very best you deserve.
It's a Hearth's Warming... well, not necessarily a miracle. A lot of preparation went into getting everyone together. But it's going to feel like one for some ponies, and that's what matters.
Also, one typo detected. Terminating with extreme prejudice:
acclimatized
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I take it Billy Hays will be their spokespony?
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An Unspecified Flinging Object throws a projectile. The projectile now has forwards momentum; by conservation of momentum, some backwards momentum must "appear" to counteract this. The projectile cannot have the backwards momentum, otherwise the projectile does not move, so it must be "given" to the UFO. The UFO must move backwards, therefore it must have backwards recoil; it may not move as fast but it still must move backwards. You cannot have forwards recoil unless you violate classical and relativistic mechanics (it's possible in quantum mechanics but unlikely, and if you have a sufficiently large collection of quantum objects you can treat it like a normal object because the probabilities of the whole collection doing acting strangely are infinitesimal). I don't know whether magical mechanics allows it; clearly it changes the recoil in some way but I don't know how it is changed. I'm assuming the enchanting process either increases the magnitude of the recoil force or introduces some other force on the crossbow.
The transfer of momentum may act through some mediator, e.g. a bowstring. The string pushes the bolt forward and simultaneously pushes the bow back. This causes a crossbow to recoil like a gun, which I will admit is a little surprising.
http://youtu.be/MM35GDq4CgA very clearly shows a backwards recoil; this is a very good example because the crossbow is not supported by a person.
http://youtu.be/19xar71L3Ow shows an upwards kick. This is caused by backwards recoil producing an anticlockwise moment around the crossbow grip.
Rocket launchers are weird. The Flinging Object is not the launch tube but the hot gas coming out of the back of the rocket; the gas "recoils", not the launch tube. The launch tube (ideally) does not contact the rocket during firing, therefore the rocket imparts no force on the launch tube. Launch tubes have a hole in the back end to allow the gas to escape quickly, otherwise the rapidly expanding gas will cause unmanageable recoil and possibly shrapnel in every direction except the enemy. The rocket imparts no force, the gas escapes and imparts no force, so you get no recoil.
http://youtu.be/007PIm7JtP0 features at least two shots at around 2:00 and 2:30. The first shows what appears to be a flash of smoke from the back end of the tube, which is a little unclear. The second shows a billowing of sand behind the soldier.
http://youtu.be/pZ45cNDL4HQ has an amateur-built launcher, but several very good demonstration shots are shown after 1:10 with fire clearly coming from both ends of the tube. Both these videos are explained by the hot gas being allowed to escape from the back of the tube.
Hope this clears things up
The colt sighed every so often and
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Ever so often is correct as well.
5769508 Ah, well...
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So how fast are the bolts from Belisama's crossbow going to travel? I mean from my google fu I was able to calculate a standard bolt at a standard velocity to the horizon would take about 45 seconds. If the bolt was travelling ten times faster than a regular bolt ( roughly 341 fps) then it would knock flight time time down to about five seconds.
So did Bucky just give Belisama a god tiered enchanted sniper crossbow thing?
I also like Bucky's double standard when it comes to all these weapons. He doesn't like firearms, but he creates soldier golems and weapons that are far more powerful than any usable firearm. I know they take some training to use, but so do firearms. Its not like you can just pick up a random gun and be fully effective with it. The only reason they worked so well with the Minotuars is because no one else had them. But I digress. I feel that Bucky is shunning one form of defense (modifying firearms for use with equines) in favor of autonomous soldier golems. Which could bring up even more problems than firearms. Autonomous soldiers are almost always exploitable for one reason or another. Its almost a trope in fiction, right?
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I would wait before anything else is said about firearms.
Belisama's crossbow is gun-like for a reason. It is a test weapon.
“I have a gift that needs to be delivered.”
I think.
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or "that needs delivering."
Of course, it could also be an intended speech pattern. Though I have not paid much attention to how proper Bucky's grammar normally is. I know I occasionally omit connecting words when they become repetitive and do not affect readability in any meaningful way.
I would like to place an order for a mark IV with a lightning stun rod, and an all purpose orb launcher for crowd control situations. Also I need 30 sleep orbs, 60 pacifism orbs, and 10 anti magic orbs. I have a school to protect. Lol
Let the storm rage on, the cold never bothered him anyway.
5769380 what about the force that the string and the frame create when it snap back to the un cocked position?
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I was guessing that she could be Chrysalis, I know who she is. :P
5770319 sweet Celestia I will hunt you down with the skill of ripple and the wrath of the hulk
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There is a forward force from the string and the frame of the bow snapping back to uncocked, but it acts on the bolt, not the bow. The equal/opposite force from the bolt acts back on the bow.
A system (such as a crossbow) cannot act a force on itself; it cannot push itself anywhere. It must have something to push against (such as a bolt). This can be understood in terms of momentum (if there is nothing around to be given backwards momentum, you cannot give something forward momentum) or Newton's 3rd law (if object A acts on object A, then object A must have an equal and opposite reaction to object A… you would guess that nothing happens).
5771743 By how ya saying it...even a bow should have recoil....and no they don't
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This might not be the real explanation but from how you hold a bow I would expect the whole archer to recoil. The bow is very firmly in your hand and your upper body is tense, so when the bow recoils, your hand pushes your arm and your arm pushes your body. Contrast with crossbow and gun which are fired from a more relaxed position, so only the weapons recoil.
This recoil is going to be a lot less noticeable because an archer weighs a lot more than a crossbow or a gun and is well grounded against the earth; if you placed the archer in empty space it may be measurable but still small (arrow weighing about 20 grams travelling at 100metre/second would push 80 kg archer back at about 0.025metre/second).
You also have the archer pushing forward for a few milliseconds after the bowstring is released and the recoil force is gone (because human reflexes are godawful). This could result in an apparent forward recoil under ideal conditions with a 'heavy' bow.
Again, there could be a better explanation; I'm not a physicist (yet).
Anyway, the original point still stands that crossbows have recoil.
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5772005
Bows most certainly have recoil, but as was stated, the human and the bow are heavier than the arrow.
A .45 acp round hits with 800 pounds of force. This has been discussed in the comment section. People said that 800 pounds of force pushing backwards would rip out your arms and break your hands.
A .45 pistol can have very manageable recoil because the gun is heavier than the bullet and so is the human body. The energy dispersal makes sure that the full force of the 800 pounds of reaction is evenly distributed.
If you want to know more about recoil in archery, one must not look at the bows, nor the arrows, but the skeletons of English longbowmen. The distorted spines and the signature bone deformation on the arms and shoulders says an awful lot about recoil effects. The longbows had horrible recoil and it crippled the bowmen over time, leaving them really messed up and disfigured.
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Let me also point out that the energy isn't distributed evenly between weapon and projectile, despite having equal momentum. The smaller object needs more kinetic energy to reach the same momentum; the speed of the object matters more than the mass when calculating it's KE.
I have now sufficiently engaged my inner Twilight Sparkle
Bucky's and his spider golems remind me of Tony Stark and his iron man suits
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Maybe, maybe, I don't know, it's been years since my physics courses, and that looks like it makes sense, but my question is...
If the bolts are not affected by Gravity, and the scope is designed to account for the curvature of the earth, long range shots are going to be a nightmare, as the scope will display a target that may or may well not be several metres below the bolts flight path (Trajectory is the wrong word to use here) as the bolt will not follow the curvature of the planet, instead going in a completely straight line. This won't be a problem at "long" range, but at miles and miles worth of range, it's gonna be difficult to say the least.
Further research says that the curvature of the earth is 8" to 1 mile, making a distance of about 18 miles before 2 average human males could be blocked from each others line of sight, Ponies, being a lot shorter than humans (at least I think they are) would probably find that distance shortened by about 4 miles or 2'08" of curvature, so the maximum ground firing range of that crossbow (considering Belisama is even shorter than most Teenaged Ponies) would be about 10 miles, of course she can fly and elevate herself to remove these concerns but the problem of linear firing line vs the planets curvature still remains.