/sos/ - Song of Swords: The Ballad Continues

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I remember seeing on Reddit some fanmande sheet that had numbers attributed to locations.

That one was actually official, I think.

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Why did the Japanese use that style of stock?

This is just getting sad now.

You guys don't even link your previous threads because they just kind of die before 100 posts.

because you'd hold it under your arm when firing. no army during that period trained their soldiers to aim beyond who to point it at. "mass of fire > individual accuracy" was the thought of the day.

You don't really hold it under your arm. The Japanese basically got the style of matchlock that was commonly used by Portugal at the time, and thus used that as the base for all the variations they made. (And yes, there were variations)

yea I was just talking shit but it is true that armies didn't bother teaching their men to aim

The Japanese actually did bother with accuracy, at least some of the time. They bothered to put front and rear sights on their muskets, which Europeans didn't do until later. You can see it here

This is true, though I wouldn't call it precision aiming per se. Just a better aid to presentation at the foe.

The Japanese also had a crude but apparently fairly effective means of ranging volley fire by use of various lengths of string tied to the barrel and the shooter's waist, visible in this pic that I thought was on my computer but apparently not this one.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanegashima_(gun)#/media/File:Strings_for_night_firing.jpg

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Huh, that's pretty interesting. I haven't heard of that one before. So are there knots on the string, to allow it to be tightened or adjusted in some way?

I think they're just measured lengths, possibly with adjustment knots. Not totally precise by any measure, but enough to help your group find a range at night. Probably combined with ranging out the field, too.

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>Californians
>Pay

Speaking of art how many of you other guys have seen the final rendition of your backer art?

So does anyone have their own homebrew for ship creation in CotV?
The only square value for rooms are crew quarters and corridors.

Just draw them freehand, based on what makes sense. The values for ship sizes are really silly and small in Ballad.

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Are the ships more traditional with decks or are they like submarines?
The book isn't clear. It says that hull breaches can be bad news but then harpoons and carrier ships are a thing

They're traditional ships. You can breathe in space. Hull breaches are a bad thing because the parts that make the ship fly spew poison gasses if broken, and gasses from the Underspace can get kicked up during battles.

Thanks for the help.

What's the difference between a shamshir and a kilij?

The Turkish style are kilij, the Persian ones shamshirs. The various in between, mixes and whatnot (which can happily include features and/or components from India as well) are a bit of a bother.

The bulbous "pommel" there tends to point to Turkey, as does the presence of a yelman, and I think the ridged styling of the guard. For an even more typical kilij go for a shorter, broader blade with a lot of curvature just before the yelman, and possibly a T-spine between there and the hilt.

The archetypical shamshir looks something like this. No yelman, quite even curvature, less going on with the guard, and the grip simply being bent and covered with an end cap instead of the bulbous pommel.

I've seen mine. And I know three other guys have their final art as well.

Hey, good to see you still 'round these parts, KM.

Well make that 4 other guys. Were you also asked not to post it?

Yep.

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What does the Strangle maneuver actually do? It doesn't really seem to say what it does in the description.

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I think it's just a way of quickly moving from out of combat explicitly into a grappling choke. Basically a specialized Clinch to skip the middle man and jump straight to squeezing the life out of someone.

Or, possibly, to garrote someone.

They're implied to be a weird mixture of historical warships from multiple eras. Some people still have ships that look like they could've been designed in the 19th century, and sail power is still popular because fuel is a bastard in the void.

One thing I'd like to have clarified is what the distances involved look like. How big is the Void, actually?

Has anyone repeated the SoS experiment where a guy literally had a two formations manually fight it out by playing out the combats of entire ranks of the army one round at a time using multiple players to speed things up?

That sounds hilariously retarded, explain.

>Almost 90% of time nothing is done at all, which is why it's taking so long
Here, ftfy

If you just run the numbers on how many character pieces the dingbats behind the game offered as KS rewards, it was a pretty substantial number, and I think they all got eaten up.

>If my assumption is vague enough, I won't be called out on making it, even if I myself should check this data first before even mentioning it
Here, ftfy too.
They don't teach eristics in Whatever-Is-Your-Country-Of-Origin all the way back to high school or something?

Well I don't know that word, so... Probably not. That said, most of the game's money obviously came from art, so if there's anything the game is going to have a metric fuckton of, it's art.