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There's a very good and simple metric to determine if a purported superweapon was any good. Did anyone else adopt it? Iron? Instantly. Gunpowder? Sure did. Dreadnoughts? Hell yes. Firecracker katyusha? Nope. Bronze mirror anti-trireme lasers? Probably didn't actually even exist.
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Pharnakes posted:Not at all. It's basically a congreve rocket, albeit with probably a smaller warhead. Congreve rockets were used by the British, especially during the Napoleonic wars to reasonable effect. I don't think they were ever very effective at killing people, but they were good for breaking up mass formations and disrupting advances, which was 90% of the objective in a battle at the time anyway. Also used to chase off the raggle taggle mob defending D.C. so we could burn it down Come on, guy, even ignoring the fantastic arrows-that-explode-on-impact angle, Congreve rockets came hundreds of years later and are only related in the sense that they're propelled by gunpowder attached to the projectile. You might as well say that 17th century repeating muskets were a viable weapon because using a level to reload rifles was workable with the 19th century.
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