05-18-2022, 07:56 AM | #151 | |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
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Re: armour, yes. 1 in 5 still gets through for worn armour (not natural) B431
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05-18-2022, 08:46 AM | #152 | ||
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
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EDIT: With that in mind, 8 yards/second (a 3 yard fall) is enough for a Major Wound, 15 yards/second (a 10 yard fall) is enough to drop to 0 HP, 30 yards/second (a 40 yard fall) is enough to drop to -1xHP, and 90 yards/second (a ~380 yard fall) is enough to drop to -5xHP. Quote:
Realistically, yeah, but I'm not sure there are any rules that would handle this type of situation. Maybe the bit about breakable barriers?
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05-19-2022, 12:38 PM | #153 |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
The main problem with a pit trap here is this is a snake. Making the trap collapse when the thing's center of gravity is fully committed is not trivial, and it's also not stupid so it's not going to cross a 350' rope bridge with axe dudes hanging around the other side.
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05-19-2022, 05:04 PM | #154 |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
Has someone suggested poisons, preferable slow working ones?
Another similar trick may be "donate" the food with some dirty trick who would run havoc on the worms intestines, sharp barbed splinters, hidden in chunks of meat, or wolfsangeln, some plants in fact a lot have cells who upon digestion set free really nasty and sharp structures. |
05-19-2022, 06:50 PM | #155 |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
The math doesn't favor poison, you would need an absurd amount.
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05-19-2022, 07:27 PM | #156 | |
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A bit math by my side tells me that I would need less than 27 grams green per 1000kg. Not to mention that some tricks to refine the poison are even known at low TLs. Most of this poisons show effect after a couple of hours, so a lethal dose can be taken over the course of a few snacks. That is an absurd amount - for a human. But even a 5000 ton leviatan, can be killed with no more than 137kg plant material. Compared to the amount it will need to eat daily, it is absolutely in the possible range. The monster will have to eat whole cattle herds ! Especially if some of that poisons stay in the body for a long time and enrich themself with every fresh meal. Concerning the needed food for the monster to keep alive, it is just to big to feed enough to stay alive, it may be a good midterm technique to drive away anything that it can eat or burn possible food. |
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05-19-2022, 08:42 PM | #157 |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
An online "volume of a cylinder" callculator
https://www.omnicalculator.com/math/cylinder-volume ....makes this beast a little over 15000 cubic feet in volume which you multiply by 63 to get weight or 472.5 tons. It's a very thin cylinder though it would be equivalent to a snake 6 feet long and 2 inches thick scaled up by a factor of 50x.
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05-20-2022, 07:16 AM | #158 |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
Turin Turambar killed Glaurung by climbing a narrow ravine and stabbing it in the belly as it crossed overhead.
The traditional way to kill a worm is with spiked armour. I listed three dragon slayers in Low-Tech Companion 2 who wore spiked armour: Lord More of More Hall, Sir Peter Loschy, and Sir John Lambton.
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05-20-2022, 08:34 AM | #159 |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
This one seems a little big for the old spiked armor trick. It's more like, as Phil said, the Persian spiked carriage trick, but it's also not dumb
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05-20-2022, 10:08 AM | #160 | |
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Re: Military Stratedgies against a 300 Foot Snake/Worm
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OK 472,5 metric tons multiplied with 27grams per ton of poison. Makes 12,76 kg roundet up of poison. If the beast even only feeds 1% of his mass daily, not to mention it has to drink, it needs 4,725 tons of food -daily! The poison needed to kill it is a neglible percentage of his food, in weight and volume. Even served in one meal it wouldn´t stick out without a made perception / poison role. May I suggest the following trap, arrange everything in a way that someone wanted to give a big feast. Several lambs, ox, and other big meat chunks, prepared for the roasting spit, gutted oiled, salted and spiced including being spiked with bacon, greens and all that. The large camp fire and music will lure it to the scene. Than the folks start running away, leaving a lot of stuff behind have some guards defending the retreat. That should do the trick. |
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