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wingsofwrath — Land Mattress Time!
Published: 2012-12-11 17:19:24 +0000 UTC; Views: 4530; Favourites: 43; Downloads: 65
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Happy (belated) Birthday to my kid brother!In case you don't understand what this drawing is about, let's just say it's an inside joke and leave it at that. It has to do with both of us being avid "Men of War" players and the fact we like to unleash a deluge of rockets on the other's units at the slightest provocation.
The rocket launcher is this: [link]
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This is possibly one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Making a weapon of war and devastation into a kids' poster... I have no idea why this amuses me so, but it does.
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Haha! Rockets are horrible to face up against in Men of War. This is quite funny XD
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Oh, I know. That's why we devote a lot of time and resources trying to hunt he other's launchers down before they fire. Pumas are especially good for behind the lines raids.
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Never seen the Land Mattress though. Nobody ever wants to put the UK in their games.
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Oh it's there all right.
The Brits are only playable in multiplayer but get decent stuff, more-so than the Americans, who, in my opinion are the weakest nation in terms of equipment. You can fight the Germans or the Americans pretty much on equal terms and you can survive against the Russians if you're lucky, since they, of course, true to history get really big guns and a lot of reinforcements... My brother and I reached an agreement - if one of us chooses the Russians then the other one also gets the Russians, else the game is jut unbalanced.
From the multiple rocket launchers in the game the Mattress has the lowest range, but it fires the most rockets. The worst part is that the Mattress is not mounted on a self propelled carriage like the Katyusha or the T34 Calliope, so you need to assign a vehicle to tow it.
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Blimey. Shortest range and no self-propulsion. Sounds like a very risky device. Bet it's fun when you get to use it though!
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Like I said, it fires the most rockets, so you get a lot more bang for your pound... And besides, I love using it because it has an amusing name.
The other rocket launchers each have their own drawbacks - the Nebelwerfer launches massive rockets and has a great range but only shoots a few of them and it also needs to be towed around, the Katyusha also fires a lot of rockets but it's very inaccurate and while mounted on a truck it can be disabled by infantry due to it being completely unarmored and the Calliope is mounted on a Sherman which gives it the best mobility and protection, but the rockets themselves kind of lack punch when compared with the others.
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I remember using the Calliope. I say, this is all making me want to play Men At War again. Haven't played it in months!
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NO? Are you perchance allergic to the "Rocket Projectile 3 inch"?
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I'm allergic to them in large doses.
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Interesting. Can you please describe the symptoms? Are they perchance on the lines of cold sweat, ringing ears from unidentified high pitched whistling, short blinding lights followed by the sudden pulverisation of everything on a 20 meter radius?
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yes Oh and arterial hemorrhaging.
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I don't know why, but this made me think of Adventure Time.
Anyways, great job.
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Heh. I never even seen Adventure Time, but I'll take your word for it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it since, after all, you're "in the business" of slinging large amounts of explosives over the horizon in the vague direction of the enemy and the Canadian army did use the "Mattress" during WW2.
I for the other hand am squarely in the burrowing category when it comes to artillery barrages, even though I did get (some) training as an AA gunner for a 14.5mm ZU-2 twin AA machine-gun (which they then conveniently retired from front-line service. Ah well, can't have it all).
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It just the cheerful art style you did like the show, but instead of Adventure Time, its Landmattress Time!
Do find amusing is the mattress in the photo is at the war museum, as soon as I saw it, I went, dafuq, isn't that... yup.
There's many different types of artillery shells. But they all fall under the two fuze catagories:
Disruptive (shit explodes) and Igniferous (expels content of a projectile, aka carrier). The carrier ones contain stuff like smoke, landmines, C4, etc. Yes, I said C4, you shot bridges and wait for the convoy to come along then detonate it.
And Canada was a crazy nut bars in WWII, never enough artillery shells, Germans swore we had an automatic howitzer (which inspired them to build the PzH 2000). And when Britain gave us Bren Carriers, we do this: [link]
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I see.
Yeah, the one in the War Museum is pretty much the specific Land Mattress I used as reference. Let's just say that with my girlfriend being a resident of Vancouver I do have a predisposition towards Canadian things...
I do know a bit about artillery, especially siege artillery, having co-authored a book on WW1 Austro-Hungarian Heavy Siege Artillery published by the Bucharest Military Museum back in 2010 and I know for instance that the name of the "ingniferous fuzes" comes from the olden days (Napoleonic wars) when time delay was accomplished via a slow burning wick or later (late 19th century) by the so-called "beehive fuze" in which a trail of slow burning gunpowder is exposed to the hot gasses in the barrel by punching a hole in the lead sheet cover of the fuze at specific points to allow for a measured time delay... Despite the name though, modern fuzes are usually mechanical in nature.
On the other hand "Disruptive fuzes" seem to suggest either impact of delayed detonation after impact.
Never knew about the controlled delayed detonation option on payload though, but it makes sense as an idea.
Ah, yes, the Wasp flamethrower. Now that is an interesting piece of equipment, methinks.
As for the PzH 2000, I do have good friends in the Bundeswehr Reserve and they told me some stuff about it, but they were mostly mechanized infantry rather than artillery (OK, not all of them, one of them is a combat medic and rides around in a medevac Wiesel II) so they don't know much about it besides the fact it can shoot 10 rounds in a minute with full MRSI support, which, if you ask me, sounds terrifying for a ground pounder such as myself.
Especially since I thought seeing live fire from the LAROM launchers ([link] ) of the 81st Rocket Artillery Battalion during training was terrifying enough.
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Thank you! I tried to make it look like the children's books from the 60s and 70s.
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LOL I like it. "He looked at me - DEATH BY ROCKET BARRAGE!!!"
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Yeah, pretty much the way the Allied armies won on the Western Front in WW2 - somebody shoots a rifle from the second story of a house in the general direction of your tank column, stop advancing and call in the artillery to level the place.
On the eastern front the Russians had lots of reserves so at first they used massed human waves, but in the latter stages, as their industry caught up with front line demand they resorted to the same tactics, especially after reaching Germany.
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