Thread 96363644

Why didn't IRL medieval armies just use giant war balloons festooned with cannons to easily conquer any enemy in the field and win every battle?

>>96363644 (OP)
The match up vs dragons and magic is poor, and like hot air balloons they were both common sights on the typical mediaeval battlefield

>>96363644 (OP)
That shit is hard bro
Simply raising the cannons into the air would be a nightmare, much less aiming them
Just dump refuse metal from on high and skewer enemy combatants in a way that they may escape, but can't fight back against.

>>96363644 (OP)
I don't know if you knew this but cannons are really fucking heavy. Modern hot air balloons are goddamn massive and they're just meant to lift people.

Man whoever wrote this "IRL" setting lore sounds like a huge dumbass lol

>>96363644 (OP)
A couple of swivel guns wouldn't have been that effective on an army.

>>96363644 (OP)
People in the medieval ages were retarded. Why didn't they just use pic related and dominate their neighboring kingdoms?

>>96363888
Lack of Aethergold.

>>96363644 (OP)
>>96363730
Just put some people with bows on the thing and have them rain death on their foes. Metal is heavy and you don't really want heavy shit on your war balloon

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. You fire a cannon from a balloon and the cannon will shoot out the other side of the balloon or spin the balloon into uncontrollable spirals.


>>96364080
They can do the same thing from the ground with less effort and greater effect.

>>96363644 (OP)
Cannons is too much effort for minimal benefit. You're better off dropping bombs from the gondola.

>>96364136
In the balloon the enemy would have much harder time attacking you while you can just shoot down at them.

>>96364167
How many archers per balloon? How high up? What does the wind do to the arrows?

Compare all that vs adding more archers on the ground with the money you spent on the balloon.

>>96363644 (OP)
How many cannonballs could a hot air balloon take before it starts going down?

>>96363644 (OP)
Has anyone tried to scratchbuild one of these using a lantern yet? Chuck in some 1/72 Three Kingdoms troops

>>96364666
Does GW make lanterns? No, I didnt think so. If you turn up at a tournament with a realistcally sized balloon made from a real lantern, (not the retarded plastic/resin one GW makes), you would be hounded out by the seething paypig autists for 'modelling for advantage' or 'not using 99.9% GW products', or other such bollocks.

>>96365323
man your tournament scene must suck

>>96363644 (OP)
Well not only would a cannon firing generate enough recoil to send balloon flying in the opposite direction, if not outright crash, its also kinda hard to have it go where you want it to go

>>96363644 (OP)
>OP is a faggot who can't into history
Many such cases unfortunately.
I'll throw you a bone: The Chinese developed kites large enough to carry a kid. They used them to scout out enemy movements and relay messages.
Some English monk (Eilmer of Malmesbury or something like that) made a hang glider and travelled 80 m with it, landed badly, injured his foot and the abbot outlawed flying.

tl;dr flight *was* historically used in the military where possible and not forbidden

>>96364660
Surprisingly the answer appears to be 3-4.

>>96363644 (OP)
>Why didn't IRL medieval armies just use giant war balloons
Because it wasn't invented until the Enlightenment age.

Next question?

Out of all the dumb shit in warhammer why is it a hot air balloon that really gets the autists going?

>>96363716
fpbp

>>96363644 (OP)
first hot air balloon in recorded history was in France in the 1780s so... well past the medieval period. they also didn't have guns either. so if you are asking why didn't the just use future tech to win why not ask why they didn't build tomohawk missiles and his strike all their enemies castles?

>>96366167
They had guns, of a sort, in the late medieval period.

>>96366148
It's because the balloons are very good in-game and basically carry the faction in competitive play

>>96365323
>>96366232
Both of these sound like a problems caused by the personal moral failure of playing in GW tournaments.