10-16-2018, 10:15 PM | #21 | |
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Re: Black powder Cannon Ballistics in the Age of Sail
I don't know if this is exactly helpful but I had a working model for this that conforms pretty well with the example cannons given in GURPS Low-Tech.
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10-17-2018, 02:49 AM | #22 | |
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Re: Black powder Cannon Ballistics in the Age of Sail
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Have you looked for wargaming forums or social media groups? They tend to be good for statistics. I would just rule that a recoiling gun inflicts 3d Cr to a random extremity. You could always use the collision rules and eyeball the speed.
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10-17-2018, 03:02 AM | #23 |
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Re: Black powder Cannon Ballistics in the Age of Sail
Also, this site cites some of those period handbooks and has a 'back-of-the-envelope' model to calculate energy from powder charge and shot diameter https://arc.id.au/CannonBallistics.html
I have a journal article by a certain Reitsma "The explosion of a ship, loaded with black powder, in Leiden in 1807" which calculates that Napoleonic black powder was about as strong as modern. I would be happy extrapolating that back into the Golden Age of Piracy, I don't think the technology changed much.
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10-17-2018, 05:12 AM | #24 | |
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