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by deadmansshoes
5586 days ago
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"You don't fly in the balloon your soldiers do." Strangely, I wasn't suggesting the Montgolfier brothers were going to take Gibraltar single-handedly. There is a huge difference between climbing a wall with seige ladders where once you get a few men across everyone else can follow, and 2-3 men floating in a wooden basket and trying to land (!) in a fortress. Granted reconnaissance may have been useful, but if after 4 years of seige you haven't worked out your enemy through espoinage and being shot at, a balloon is not going to help. |
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Lol, nor I, I was assuming that creation of one balloon would allow creation of multiple balloons for use in any given battle.
I'd imagine the access a balloon gives, with the addition of surprise and maybe a steering fan, to be pretty good. You could send up some test balloons and then send up some huge ones with bombs on the bottom and shoot them down over the target for yourself. Or perhaps a pile of diseased food to a hunger-stricken garrison, or ...
You can't readily break down a whole castle with a single trebuchet either.