naval gunfire in the Nelson era.

[ochoin]

Apologies for "doing a Tango":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGM6Alw ... 8Uy73PTWFs

I was pretty impressed with this, especially in terms of the relative lack of
physical damage & the relative high amount of splinter damage to the crew.

Surely, this has some ramifications to our A0S gaming?

donald

[FreddBloggs]

That is why the thin wooden below divisions were cleared away for battle, they knew the splinter risks.

[Peeler]

They could have someone's eye out.

[grizzlymc]

HSE are not going to like this, not at all.

[ochoin]

I've long wanted to branch out to naval gaming. I love the AoS models you can make but the effort to create good rigging has always put me off.

One day, maybe.

donald

[grizzlymc]

I'm going to do it in 1:3000 scale, no rigging needed.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

That is why the thin wooden below divisions were cleared away for battle, they knew the splinter risks.

One of the British ships at Trafalgar hoisted the captain's dining room furniture into the shrouds.....where it was shot to pieces because the French tended to aim at the rigging.

I was always fascinated by the phenomenon of "wind of ball" where a cannonball passing close to someone's head or abdomen would leave them ostensibly unhurt, then they would collapse within hours of the battle and die a couple of days later (the Imperial Guard Horse Grenadier rendered mute for life after a "near miss" at Friedland is another example). Apparently, this was much more likely to be fatal at sea than on land, so I suspect it may have had something to do with the larger calibres of gun being used.

[FreddBloggs]

Similar to the phenomenon of taken by angels in WW1, where you had a body without a mark on it.

There is a truly horrific account from an officer on a frigate where a ball came into the gundeck at an angle and bounced off the sides instead of having the power to exit. It always brought home just how dangerous it was.

[BaronVonWreckedoften]

Similar to an AP round entering a tank and ricocheting around inside because it lacked the kinetic energy to exit?

[grizzlymc]

Ak rounds do something similar in an M113, so I am told.