Although I doubt that this will stop some blue-background posters from complaining that the Vindicaar isn't being used as a super-powerful war-ending mega-weapon that the Alliance totally deserve
It isn't just blue backgrounds, you know?
03/11/2018 23:30Posted by
Raljin Vindicaar, Stormwind and Kul Tiras are 100% the most important targets to take out with a long range weapon in this conflict.
My personal hope is that they shoot the vindicaar which makes it crash into Dalaran which destabilises it and makes them both crash into Stormwind, destroying Varian's memorial and reverting the area to the Cataclysm-era destroyed model. Not redone, but identically back to Cata-era.
90% at the Vindicaar so everyone can get a justification for why we don't see it anymore in the Alliance war effort.
60% at the Kul tiran fleet so the Alliance lose it as well
30% at Ironforge because that cannon would be the only way to damage it as a fortified city in the mountain
10% at Stormwind since it's originally aimed there??? (I think, but it won't completely destroy it anyway, probably only the harbor or the castle of Anduin)
1% at Stromgarde (when it's Alliance controlled) in order to give a justification for the Horde to get revenge on the Alliance if they lore-wise win the Arathi warfront.
Also when it fires there could be negative repercussion on Bilgewater Harbor or even Orgrimmar.
That said, Mana Bombs are still way better that than that cannon, way more dangerous and efficient!!!
Of course some of those were tongue-in-cheek.... so were the Alliance posts.
Screw all the rest, those 2 lovebirds can plant the seeds of a whole new race.
This pairing gives me nightmares.
Please leave crossbreeding to fanfics, we have seen how such went with the one we dont speak about anymore.
05/11/2018 12:06Posted by
Fauffi The shells it fires have a caliber of about 3-5 meters. By comparison, the largest caliber artillery ever used on Earth was 0,8 m (the largest mortar was a little under 1 m): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav. Upscaling from that shell (7,1 tons), places the shell at around 500-600 tons or 8-10 times a modern main battle tank.
Let's assume it hurls this shell with a muzzle velocity of 2700 m/s (for those intercontinental shots) which gives it an energy requirement of about 2,2 trillion joules or half a kiloton (500 tons of TNT). Putting the power drain at 275 gigawatts. That's about 1% of the entire world's energy consumption. It would take the Hoover Dam about 2,2 minutes to generate that much energy.
No chemical explosive could provide the instantaneous force needed to propel a projectile that large without blowing up the gun itself. Also the velocity attained by the shell is higher than the practical detonation wave speed of any chemical explosive currently known.
The recoil of the gun would be tremendous. The instantaneous energy expenditure is roughly the energy of a 4,0 earthquake. Firing a weapon of that size, constantly pounding that much energy into the ground would quickly shatter the ground underneath. Thus you would need a massive underground dampening system to dissipate the energy to a much larger volume.
Sorry I just world shrunk your argument and then used my goblin teleporter to split your soul in two so now you disagree with your own argument.
05/11/2018 12:06Posted by
Fauffi The shells it fires have a caliber of about 3-5 meters. By comparison, the largest caliber artillery ever used on Earth was 0,8 m (the largest mortar was a little under 1 m): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav. Upscaling from that shell (7,1 tons), places the shell at around 500-600 tons or 8-10 times a modern main battle tank.
Let's assume it hurls this shell with a muzzle velocity of 2700 m/s (for those intercontinental shots) which gives it an energy requirement of about 2,2 trillion joules or half a kiloton (500 tons of TNT). Putting the power drain at 275 gigawatts. That's about 1% of the entire world's energy consumption. It would take the Hoover Dam about 2,2 minutes to generate that much energy.
No chemical explosive could provide the instantaneous force needed to propel a projectile that large without blowing up the gun itself. Also the velocity attained by the shell is higher than the practical detonation wave speed of any chemical explosive currently known.
The recoil of the gun would be tremendous. The instantaneous energy expenditure is roughly the energy of a 4,0 earthquake. Firing a weapon of that size, constantly pounding that much energy into the ground would quickly shatter the ground underneath. Thus you would need a massive underground dampening system to dissipate the energy to a much larger volume.
Sorry I just world shrunk your argument and then used my goblin teleporter to split your soul in two so now you disagree with your own argument.
Ah, the wonders of technology!