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Old 06-13-2010, 04:00 PM   #1
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Default [3e] The Passion Cannon

The Passion Cannon (TL5)
This cannon is modeled after the gun seen in "The Pride and the Passion." Given its Hollywood origins, there is little in the way of consistency. It is mentioned in the movie that each shot weighs 96 pounds. This is the only "hard statistic" used to design the cannon.
The movie gun has eight-foot diameter wheels, a barrel about 18' long, with the complete gun and carriage being about 24' long.

Bore Size: 96-pdr = 230mm Cannon, conventional smoothbore
Ammo: Solid
Barrel Length: Very Short (18th century cannon)
Loading Mechanism: muzzleloader
Malf: 14
Damage: 69d = 6dx12 cr
½D: 768 (800)
Max.: 2985 (3000)
Acc: 13/2 = 6
EWgt: 12,696 lbs. (6,348 lbs. without carriage)
SS: 30
RoF: 1/38
WPS: 146 (projectile + propellant charge)
VPS: 0.97
CPS: $29.2
Loaders: 15
Cost: $25,792
Shots: 1
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Old 06-13-2010, 04:39 PM   #2
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you might try looking up the guns of Navarone. I think they are real guns from WWII
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Old 06-13-2010, 05:03 PM   #3
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About halfway down this page is a set of typical proportions for artillery from one English source. That table suggests 18 calibers for a siege gun, which would put the gun at about 162 inches long.

The 9-inch Dahlgren gun of the US Civil War fired a 90-pound shot. It was 131 inches long and weighed 9000 lbs.
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Old 06-14-2010, 12:27 PM   #4
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About halfway down this page is a set of typical proportions for artillery from one English source. That table suggests 18 calibers for a siege gun, which would put the gun at about 162 inches long.

The 9-inch Dahlgren gun of the US Civil War fired a 90-pound shot. It was 131 inches long and weighed 9000 lbs.
The cannon as described in the book "The Gun" matches those stats better. I simply started with 96-pdr as a base, and let the chips fall where they may with the Vehicles gun building rules. Since the movie gun is cinematic anyways, I made no attempt to justify my results with the real world.

Here's a fun website about someone building a model of the movie piece:

http://www.shivakalpa.org/johnp/cannons/
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you might try looking up the guns of Navarone. I think they are real guns from WWII
I'm working on an age of sail/pirates campaign, so a Napoleonic piece is what I'm after.

Are the Guns of Navarone described in WWII?
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