Unit: 20-pounder Parrot Cannon, 1st August 04

[Kinboat]

Always Good

 

[Vuldacon]

Very Good...Love the hand gestures and movements of the two guys, it adds a little more realism to the animation.

 

[Mr. Hyperbole]

I just have a question:

would it be possible to replace the Firaxis cannon w/this unit in an epic game?

I've done this with city graphics and terrain but never tried w/units.

 

[Gogf]

Awesome cannon. A must for any civil war scenario!

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Having just gotten back from a Civil War tour of Virginia, I just want to say... MARVELOUS!!!!!

 

[nameless53]

(wb DP!)

missed'ya

 

[aaglo]

Having just gotten back from a Civil War tour of Virginia, I just want to say... MARVELOUS!!!!!

You must be talking about the tour then
threadjacker

 

[LAW_FREAK]

It 's a great unit. In the future it would be cool if the barrel explodes in the death anim.(pieces fly everywhere)

 

[Dom Pedro II]

I think for a Civil War scenario, there should be a few of these at the outset, and this will be the only buildable cannon since the smooth-bore cannon is obsolete.

But there should be a number of smooth-bore cannon at the beginning. I think it'd be good if somebody made a munit of the vanilla Civ Cannon with the Rifleman for this purpose.

 

[aaglo]

Dom, I'm making some more cannons from the ACW-era
- 3 inch ordnance rifle
- 6 pounder bronze smoothbore
and I'm going to try also
- 1.65 inch Hotchkiss mountain gun and
- gatling gun (btw, was that used in artillerish or infantryish manner? or - how should it be used in civ3?)

 

[Dom Pedro II]

The Gatling gun wasn't used at all actually... but there was something called a Coffe Mill gun that was indeed used, but it only had one barrel. It had a tendency to over-heat though.

I would suggest using the Gatling gun as either A) artillery or B) high-defense ground unit with a defensive bombardment.

At this time, they were still using these sorts of weapon as artillery eventhough this really wasn't their best use.


EDIT: Btw, thank you for the others!

 

[Panzer_Blitz]

I believe some of the first Gatling guns were invented during the American civil war, or shortly after it. Anyway these guns were used in a defensive manner similar to a modern machine gun.

 

[Dom Pedro II]

Panzer_Blitz, the patent for the Gatling gun was approved late in 1862, but the gun actually saw little or no combat in spite of the fact that Ben Butler personally bought a number of them for use at Petersburg. One of the reasons for this was Gatling's questionable loyalties as he also tried to sell this to the CSA as well.

 

[QFred]

... a really great unit!!!!
You now are a god in my pantheon!!!!!