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Ships of the Line
Small Arms
Siege Engines
Fortresses
Weapons of the Modern Empires
100
Early ships of the line had a high free-board and tall lines in order to increase seaworthiness and give a defensive position to these ranged weapons.
What are archers?
100
These early firearms featured a very long barrel in order to increase compression and a piece of flint in order to ignite powder in the chamber.
What are flintlocks?
100
Catapults, the trebuchet, battering rams, ballista, onager, and the mangonel were used for this purpose.
What is breaking city walls and general strategic warfare?
100
City walls and fortifications differ only in that a city wall defends a civilian population and that a fortification defends this.
What is a military installation?
100
These ships replaced ships of the line and included new capabilities for softening shore targets due to the addition of modern artillery. They saw use from their introduction by the French (Le Nepoleon) 1850 until the end of Desert Storm (USS Wisconsin and USS Missouri) 1990. The final one built was the HMS Vanguard (1941) which never fired a shot.
What is the battleship?
200
Even though France had better ships it is believed that this aspect of the British Navy gave them the advantage at sea.
What is training and tradition?
200
In order to increase maneuverability in tight or restricted spaces barrels were shortened leading to this style of rifle.
What is a carbine?
200
World war II saw the last combat use of this weapon.
What is a catapult?
200
A temporary or hastily built fortification.
What is breastwork?
200
These weapons replaced cannons starting in the seven years war and were developed under Frederick II of Prussia. They feature rifling, center-fire cartridges or measured breachload powder, and their lighter weight steel construction gives them greater range and better mobility. Modern versions could fire nuclear rounds, proximity timers, projectile rockets, and pinpoint accuracy.
What is modern artillery.
300
This battle defined the Royal Navy as the dominant sea power.
What is the battle at Trafalgar?
300
The earliest of firearms was actually developed in China and later adopted by Europe. It was characterized by a relatively short smooth barrel that widened allowing for ammunition that may not stay together during compression.
What is a blunderbuss?
300
This practice was used up until the end of the 18th century to weaken or bypass heavy fortifications or city walls.
What is mining?
300
These are the two earliest examples of walled cities.
What are Uruk and Summer?
300
These weapons are considered the most significant in their transformation of modern warfare.
What are aircraft?
400
The British Admiral who is credited with the victory at the Battle of Trafalgar.
Who is Lord Horatio Nelson?
400
Up until the invention of the carbine these were the weapon that accompanied the cutlass in close combat or tight quarters.
What is the flintlock pistol?
400
A small explosive device placed on the outside wall or fortification that would often kill the person who placed it there.
What is a petard?
400
Due to the advent of black powder siege weapons the geometry of a fortification became more important leading to these spectacular structures.
What are star fortifications?
400
These ballistic weapons saw limited use by the Chinese in the late 1300's and did not re-emerge until their use in WWI
What are surface to surface missiles?
500
Fully outfitted ships of war owned by civilians and given right by a nation to seize ships of the enemy and often paid to do so.
What is a privateer?
500
This mechanism replaced the flintlock as an intermediary between the flintlock and the cap as a firing mechanism for small arms. Its advantage was that it did not need to be pulled back every time the weapon was fired.
What is the wheel-lock?
500
This weapon is considered the most modern replacement of the ancient siege weapons.
What is artillery?
500
Fortifications became obsolete with the advent of this new combat theater.
What is domination of the air / projection of air power?
500
The first example of a rapid fire repeating firearm that later evolved into the modern machine gun.
What is the Puckle gun? ("Able to fire round bullets at Christians and Square bullets at Turks" According to it's British Inventor in 1718)