Alternate Weapons of War thread...

Weird weapon placement on the bottom tank. Besides a short barreled howitzer(?) what is the other weapon right below it?
That's all the same gun. The 6-inch howitzer has that under-barrel component (for I'm sure very sound technical reasons, but I couldn't tell you what they were). As for why a howitzer? Well, we British had a fondness for having tanks with the capability for indirect (or at least semi-indirect) fire.

Archive Awareness (the blog that I found those on) speculates that they might have had difficulty if they'd actually tried it, and that it might have instead been given an open-topped turret and used as a psuedo-SPG.
 
Weird weapon placement on the bottom tank. Besides a short barreled howitzer(?) what is the other weapon right below it?
That's all the same gun. The 6-inch howitzer has that under-barrel component (for I'm sure very sound technical reasons, but I couldn't tell you what they were). As for why a howitzer? Well, we British had a fondness for having tanks with the capability for indirect (or at least semi-indirect) fire.

Archive Awareness (the blog that I found those on) speculates that they might have had difficulty if they'd actually tried it, and that it might have instead been given an open-topped turret and used as a psuedo-SPG.
That's the recoil cylinder, it hoses the hydro-pneumatic machinery used to dampen the recoil.

Also the howitzer's mounted on British tanks were not there for indirect, or semi indirect fire. They were there to provide a heavy HE shell for blowing up bunkers and pillboxes in support of infantry
 
Thank you both for the answer. I just did not make as part of the howitzer and so thought it some kind of other weapon. :)
 
A crazy idea (expecially since this plane was made of wood) but I hereby present the De Havilland Mosquito jet ! (with Rolls-Royce RB.50 Trent turbo-prop engine)

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Made this a good while ago. Strictly speaking, not military equipment, but still some imaginative alternate ammunition.

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Used by professional thieves and other criminals in my fantasy setting. Guns are also available, but loud and ill-suited for firing specialised ammo, hence the enduring popularity of bows and crossbows. I've made sure most of these arrows and bolts would actually work in real life and be light enough to fly well. Some of these are true offensive ammunition, others are purely tools and contraptions on an arrowshaft. Most of the arrowheads contain smaller but sturdy clockwork mechanisms or are designed to behave in certain ways on most impacts. Only one variant uses alchemical substances by default in order to work. The arrowheads in the explosive set are obviously some of the heaviest and can't fly far. The mundane broadheads and bodkins obviously come in more shape variations than just the two shown here, but you get the idea.

Quick overview of what is what:
Broadhead - normally used mainly as a hunting arrowhead; good against soft tissues and therefore unarmoured or lightly armoured opponents
Bodkin - an arrowhead that's mostly seen military use; fairly effective at penetrating thicker armours, including mail, but incapable of beating plate
Flathead/Blunthead - cheapo arrowhead that's incapable of sticking into targets; can be used to hit switches or daze enemies instead
Ruckus - decoy clockwork arrowhead, activated on impact by the button at the front; the trigger sets off wind-up clockwork rattles, bells and whistles built into the arrowhead
Knockout - incapacitating clockwork arrowhead (as the name implies); after the button sets off the trigger, knockout gas, or sleeping gas, etc., is pushed out of the gas cylinder inside through small openings
Dousing - dousing as in "putting out an open fire"; glass arrowheads of different sizes, filled with water or special extinguishing liquid, have multiple possible uses (main one being enhancing shadows at night)
Ignition - mechanical or alchemical arrowhead with an explosive and/or igniting effect; the mechanical variant has a striking trigger which ignites the gunpowder with a spark, the alchemical variant has a simpler trigger which intentionally destabilises the alchemical mixture stored inside


Before you ask: I intend to finish a second sheet, with the rest of the ammo. It's long overdo. The second sheet will mostly show similarly specialised darts for dart pistols, and various bolts and missiles used as grappling hooks.
 
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Interesting stuff. I look forward to the next sheet. :)

I'll note that it's heavily inspired by the Thief series and other prominent uses of the concept of the "trick arrow". That said, I wanted to make these as plausible as I could, deemphasizing the need for magic to make them work. Therefore, they weigh heavily on the tech side in terms of design (while in Thief, it was always more 50:50). As the characters who use these wouldn't have a steady access to magic, I thought it made more sense if the arrowheads were mostly grounded in reality, built only with technologies available in an early modern-esque society with emerging industrial era technology.
 
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I know it is not the same thing, but reminds me of some of the alt arrows available in some RPG's I have played/read about.
 
Necromancy ahoy! Seriously, these are WesWorld Brazil's newest warships, courtesy of Seawolf.


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Time to revive this thread!
I had a really boring saturday today... had nothing to do but to draw in paint and listen to some music... -.-
So on this fateful day, I created this vessel (lol)

A fictional Swedish WWII Battleship (for an AH of mine where sweden is more powerful)

Hope u like it (edit; oh, maybe I will/should add some more lifeboats... was thinking they could have mostly inflatable ones if that's possible...)
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Oh, hai.
I'm still working on the zeppelinbattleshipthing and the superbattleship:p...

In the meantime, I made a cruiser of some sort and I put the Mjölnir (ca 281m)
In the image as well so that you can have her as a size referance.
Hope u like it ^^

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Well, I've made another ship. I call it the "Odin class".
It's a *correction* BATTLESHIP! :p lol
I put the Mjölnir (with some updates on her) below the Odin to serve as size comparison. As usual; the Mjölnir is ca 281 meters.
(please don't think that I'm trying to spam the Mjölnir in every post I do, I'm just too lazy to measure the new ships I make, so I simply insert the Mjölnir and that should suffice
as size reference :p)

Currently I'm working on:
The Zeppelinuberbattleship... thing
A carrier, a little bit smaller than an Essex class (I think :rolleyes:)
the supermegaduper battleship thingie.

Well folks, Hope u like the Odin :p
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Gone back to the beginning of this thread. I know some of there are very ond, but does anybody have any more specs on these?
 
A flash forward from the TL in my sig, here is the OTL equivalent to the SMLE and the rifle that the British Empire is going to use for the best half of the 20th century, in its first and second forms.
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EDIT: Dammit, I spent Pattern wrong :|​
 
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