"The Dardanelles Gun was cast in bronze in 1464 by Munir Ali with a weight of 18.6 t and a length of 518 cm, being capable of firing stone balls of up to 63 cm diameter. The powder chamber and the barrel are connected by the way of a screw mechanism, allowing easier transport of the unwieldy device.
Such super-sized bombards had been employed in Western Europe siege warfare since the beginning of the 15th century, and were introduced to the Ottoman army in 1453 by the Hungarian gunfounder Orban on the occasion of the Siege of Constantinople. Ali's piece is assumed to have followed closely the outline of these guns.
Along with a number of other huge cannon, the Dardanelles Gun was still present for duty more than 300 years later in 1807, when a Royal Navy force appeared and commenced the Dardanelles Operation. Turkish forces loaded the ancient relics with propellant and projectiles, then fired them at the British ships. The British squadron suffered 28 dead through this bombardment.
In 1866, on the occasion of a state visit, Sultan Abdülâziz gave the Dardanelles Gun to Queen Victoria as a present. It became a part of the Royal Armouries collection and was displayed to visitors at the Tower of London and was then moved to Fort Nelson at Portsmouth."-Wikipedia
The zip includes two versions of this large bombard, the first is one that is pretty much to scale and is lowered into wooden stakes like siege bombards of the 15th century usually where. The second is a smaller model on wheels like the vanilla cannon.
There are several very good Ottoman Bombards in the civfanatics database already, but I always had liked Dardanelles Gun and wanted to make a extra large model of it to scale and this is the result. The smaller wheels version is sure to get the most use considering the other version is large enough to overflow into the surrounding map squares...
Both use the vanilla cannon animations.
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Such super-sized bombards had been employed in Western Europe siege warfare since the beginning of the 15th century, and were introduced to the Ottoman army in 1453 by the Hungarian gunfounder Orban on the occasion of the Siege of Constantinople. Ali's piece is assumed to have followed closely the outline of these guns.
Along with a number of other huge cannon, the Dardanelles Gun was still present for duty more than 300 years later in 1807, when a Royal Navy force appeared and commenced the Dardanelles Operation. Turkish forces loaded the ancient relics with propellant and projectiles, then fired them at the British ships. The British squadron suffered 28 dead through this bombardment.
In 1866, on the occasion of a state visit, Sultan Abdülâziz gave the Dardanelles Gun to Queen Victoria as a present. It became a part of the Royal Armouries collection and was displayed to visitors at the Tower of London and was then moved to Fort Nelson at Portsmouth."-Wikipedia
The zip includes two versions of this large bombard, the first is one that is pretty much to scale and is lowered into wooden stakes like siege bombards of the 15th century usually where. The second is a smaller model on wheels like the vanilla cannon.
There are several very good Ottoman Bombards in the civfanatics database already, but I always had liked Dardanelles Gun and wanted to make a extra large model of it to scale and this is the result. The smaller wheels version is sure to get the most use considering the other version is large enough to overflow into the surrounding map squares...
Both use the vanilla cannon animations.
Discussion Thread
