Honestly, do icebergs sound remotely like merchant ships??

[Mush Martin]

Nice one Jim.

[Blacklight]

I'd imagine that the ice ship would have an interesting sinking mechanic.

Can't wait to see all the posts.
"It's a bug in GWX 2.1!! The Ice ship won't sink!!!"

[Jimbuna]

@MM
@privateer......Should put paid to the fridge magnet theory. No need for them on an ice ship.

[Gezur(Arbeit)]

Sink teh ICEBERGS!!!!!1111ONE

If it would sink by flooding? :hmm:

[Mush Martin]

Personally I Think development of either a thermite torpedo or a
diabolical heatray is obviously called for in this case.:hmm:

[edit]
Curiously the previously mentioned bates eight barreled bottle thrower
might have held the key to the solution. it was a proposed gatling like
launcher for the home guard that fired sealed bottles of phosphorous
latex and naptha. in a rapid fire stream out a few hundred feet maybe
for taking out tanks. it was presented but the authorities foresaw a possible
problem with surprised gunners opening the breach when a glass projectile
broke in the barrel or cooked off. so in its turn the weapon was rejected
"in multi barrel form"
the bottle would naturally break against the side of a tank in theory
and the latex and naptha would stick while the phosphour would light it all
off. quite horrible to be sure. but it certainly has potential as an anti ice
carrier weapon.

Interestingly this weapon or anything to do with it produces nothing when
you google it. a rare moment. I got it from ballantines illustrated history
"the guns 1939-1945" by Master Gunner first Class Ian V. Hogg R.A.
who observed on this subject that when the board rejected the weapon
they missed a real opportunity for what answer could be better to a grandchilds
question "what did you do in the war grandpa" than "Well ...
I was a gunlayer on a bates eight barrelled bottle thrower"


[edit2] I hereby challenge you Jimbuna to find a picture of that!

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

Personally I Think development of either a thermite torpedo or a
diabolical heatray is obviously called for in this case.:hmm:

[edit]
Curiously the previously mentioned bates eight barreled bottle thrower
might have held the key to the solution. it was a proposed gatling like
launcher for the home guard that fired sealed bottles of phosphorous
latex and naptha. in a rapid fire stream out a few hundred feet maybe
for taking out tanks. it was presented but the authorities foresaw a possible
problem with surprised gunners opening the breach when a glass projectile
broke in the barrel or cooked off. so in its turn the weapon was rejected
"in multi barrel form"
the bottle would naturally break against the side of a tank in theory
and the latex and naptha would stick while the phosphour would light it all
off. quite horrible to be sure. but it certainly has potential as an anti ice
carrier weapon.

Interestingly this weapon or anything to do with it produces nothing when
you google it. a rare moment. I got it from ballantines illustrated history
"the guns 1939-1945" by Master Gunner first Class Ian V. Hogg R.A.
who observed on this subject that when the board rejected the weapon
they missed a real opportunity for what answer could be better to a grandchilds
question "what did you do in the war grandpa" than "Well ...
I was a gunlayer on a bates eight barrelled bottle thrower"


[edit2] I hereby challenge you Jimbuna to find a picture of that!

According to noted weapons expert Ian Hogg, the worst weapon ever developed was the “Bates 8-barreled Bottle Thrower”. This desperation weapon was designed in 1940, when England feared a Nazi invasion and the British Home Guard was desperately short of anti-tank weapons. This awesome wooden-framed projector used 8 tin tubes fitted with blank shotgun shells to propel glass bottles filled with a volatile mixture of napalm & white phosphorus. Hurling of the bottles demonstrated that the stickey compound could be quite effective in some circumstances. However, actually firing the weapon revealed a 1-in-6 in-bore failure rate among the bottles. Since there were 8 barrels, there is no existing model of this formidable engine of war . . . they all burned up during testing.

Here's the only similar weapon (single barrelled version) that has been published

http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M...l=en#PPA212,M1

[Mush Martin]

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You truly are the best.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by Mush Martin

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

You truly are the best.

Yes.....your right