#petard

[luckykittycolor]

Petard on ice

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Humblebird's Modest Armory - Humblebird Publications | DriveThruRPG.com

Humblebird's Modest Armory - Tired of weapon lists with pages and pages of interesting options, then only ever using the one with the best stats? Hum

Tired of weapon lists with pages and pages of interesting options, then only ever using the one with the best stats? Humblebird's Modest Armory is a toolset that allows you to come up with all sorts of historical and fanciful swords, polearms, guns, and other pre-industrial weapons. Just roll the dice and in a few seconds you'll have come up with a weapon that occupies its own little niche.

Generate weapons for character and world building:

Iconic weapons for important characters

Standard issue for an army

Flavor for ceremonial guards and bandit gangs

Artifacts of power and legitimacy

Just an easy way to pick a random weapon

Contains a cover page, 1 page of tables, 4 pages of glossary and mechanical information, and 3 pages of annotated example weapons.

Go wield a falcata or fauchard, khanda or khopesh, pike or petard, ranseur or rocket launcher!

[historicalfirearms]

Devastating… it wasn’t a shell which explodes and splinters come off, this was solely a 40 lb mortar bomb filled with plastic HE, the blast, the detonation was terrific, really terrific. That was what it was designed for to blast apart pillboxes… to open up a pillbox. The blast, the detonation was dreadful.

Sergeant John Solomon, a tank driver with 222nd Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers, 79th Armoured Division, describes the effects of a 40lb Petard bomb fired from a Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers or AVRE. 

An AVRE’s petard mortar with 290mm bomb (source)

The AVRE was based on the Churchill tank but instead of a main gun like a 75mm or a 6pdr it has a 290mm petard spigot mortar, similar to that of the PIAT, which fired a large petard bomb, often nicknamed a ‘flying dustbin’ by troops because of its shape.

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[whatthefoucault]

Every single time I hear the phrase “hoisted by your own petard” I have to remind myself that a petard is a small bomb, when what it sounds like to me is some kind of harness belt attached to a pulley system, and unbeknownst to you somebody’s grasped the other end of the rope and suddenly pulls on it super hard, yeeting you way up into the air, which I think you’ll find is a superior definition

[todd--chavez]

for all you uncultured swines and humans, a petard is a bomb used to blow up a gate or something in order to infiltrate a castle or whatever and Shakespeare coined the phrase “hoist with his own petard” as in you fell into your own trap.

[toutplacid]

Ivresse alcoolo-cannabique — crayon doré et argenté sur papier noir, carnet nº 90, 2008