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Re: 18th Century Howitzer
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lugnet.build.military
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Wed, 11 Oct 2006 23:32:56 GMT
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This is the best home-brewed cannon I’ve seen so far. It’s quite perfect and
still simple, very much to my taste. I would love you to do a diorama around
this.
I do have a question however, isn’t a howitzer some form of mortar? In the game
Age of Empires III it is an improved mortar, so I’m a bit curious.
Thanks for sharing, Jazzjake
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| (...) Sort of. Howitzers were developed to fire at high angles, but were generally transported with the cannon horizontal. Nowadays, the word "howitzer" seems to be used for just about any cannon-like artillery. ROSCO (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
| | | Re: 18th Century Howitzer
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| (...) Thanks. I'm glad you like it. I posted a couple of pictures of this over on Eurobricks that show a bit better how the barrel and carriage go together. They are in this thread: (URL) (...) This page: (URL) has a pretty good explanation of the (...) (18 years ago, 12-Oct-06, to lugnet.build.military, FTX)
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