Cretaceous Titanosaurs were not only the largest land animals to ever live, not only greatly surpassed their, previously thought as the biggest, late-Jurassic sauropod relatives in terms of mass but also had extremely convenient flat-back and broad flanks.
What would you mount on them?
bump stock.
Remember how in WWII Hitler had an autistic obsession with trains, so Germany had those trains with artillery guns and tanks and shit on them for no reason? Like that except convoys of dinos. Just tons and tons of cannon.
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Wouldn't the feathers get in the way?
My understanding is that only some species of theropods and the flying dinosaurs had feathers, and no others did. Mostly raptors, who actually evolved into birds, hence birds of prey are also called raptors.
You have that backwards. iirc Raptor in latin means thief, plunderer, and so the birds were named as such. Later, when it was hypothesized that the small dinosaurs could and probably had a similar behaviour, they were given such name. Only after that was the link between pirts and dinos discovered.
Other than that many titanosaurs had rows of osteoderms and hardened skin plates on their backs that could provide extra friction and attachment points for mounts.
Delete your post before the Magyar Trainautist sees it.
If that doesn't spell 'terror weapon' I don't know what does.
Should we really make it a manned system? A sauropod mounted drone installation would be able to mount a lot more ammo and hardware once you've cut the weight/space needed for a crew - it would also allow you to mount guns in other places on the beast, I kinda want to put a pair of 30mm guns placed on either side of its head. Maybe add some kind of pelvic flamethrower in case enemy manages to close on you and tries to attack from under the stomach.
a battery of pack howitzers, Mortars or AA at a moments notice or a devastating charge with a shoulder mounted GAU 17. It's Chicken like movements present a natural flat plane for clear shooting
Something like this maybe.
It's like you've never seen a chicken before. Watch the vid, specifically look at its shoulders and spine. Those guns would be unstable in all three axes - with a slow rate of fire weapon your fire would be limited to 'in that general direction', and with something like a GAU the rounds are going pretty much everywhere except where you want them. You'd need to add a shit tonne of stabilisation to bring the accuracy up to anywhere even vaguely near 'reasonable' and that's all cutting into the cost and weight of the project.
How many minutes of angle does it take to turn a perfect shot into a straight miss?
When was the last time you persuaded an animal to stay perfectly still?
What sort of maximum carry weight do you think one of these dinos would have? They might do very well as (relatively) low operational cost supply independent transport vehicles.
Conservatively, at least their own weight before structural failure.
Dinosaurs have feathers.
Only coelurosaurs (that included T-rex and close relatives but not the vast majority of big carnivorous dinosaurs) were positively identified to have a common ancestor with proto-feathers (aka simple filaments that looked more like hair or quills than actual feathers) also later tyrannosauroids were found with scale imprints instead of any sort of filamentous structure. Closely related to coelurosaurs theropods like carnosaurs and megalosaurs had no positive evidence of feather while the third closest relatives, Ceratosaurs like Ceratosaurus and Carnotaurus, were positively confirmed to be scaled and having osteoderms on their torso.
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everyone has been using them back then. brits and burgers just less because trying to transport whole armored trains by sea is hell.
l remember brits had some in colonies tho.
Fair point. The largest Sauropod we've found so far is estimated to have weighed about 77 metric tons - which is well beyond the point where palaeontologists start calling it a 'Titanosaur'. Which would make it heavier than a combat loaded Challenger 2 (the fat bastard of the tank family).
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Our best estimate for the speed of comparable species is a little under 5 kmph. Which would make it slower than a WW2 heavy tank going offroad. It's a good thing it could probably carry some additional AA gear/APS on top of its main weapons (assuming we're still weaponising it rather than turning it into a truck), because this thing is going to be a very easy target for hostile aircraft.
As each of them could carry at least 2 40ft shipping containers filled to regulation weight with a fair amount of weight left over for other functions (or to reduce wear and increase their useful lifespan) one of them could potentially carry enough kit to keep an FOB running for a while. A full convoy/herd would be large enough to warrant escorts, and could carry enough to empty a container ship. Maybe get a unit of Gigantoraptor mounted cavalry as outriders and to herd the convoy if they try to wander off and because which one of us hasn't imagined raptor mounted cavalry at some point in our lives?.
How fitting. Especially when it's a Greek pointing it out.
Greek equivalent is an etymologically closely-related anagram, rapax is the latin original and arpax is the Greek, both mean "grabber", later "rapator/raptor" in latin and "arpag(h)as" in later/informal greek (-ax was a masculine suffix used in singular nominative case becoming -agos, -agi, -agan, -aga in other singular cases and -ages, -agon. -axi, -agas, -ages in plural, therefore it's easy to see why -ax was dropped from general use in use of -agas)
I know raptor is from Latin, not Greek. I was referring to the fact that your old god took the form of a raptor in order to do some raping.
That doesn't say much. He also took the shape of a grazing ruminate, a filterfeeding waterfowl, a secretion-sucking dipteran, a cloud and even "golden rain" to fuck around.
Where did the fourth leg of the mounting one go?
Wouldn't they be more efficient as beasts of burden given their size?
why live
I give you Jurassic Reich.
Nice.
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Please don't use animals of any kind. They didn't ask or have a say in the retarded murder campaigns thought up by humans.
You say "murder" as if it's a bad thing.
Hey, if you don't want to use magically mutated guard dogs for security, arcane empowered horses as mounts for your raiding parties, or the new breeds of oxen that make Belgian Blues look weak as beasts of labour then that's your call - your tribe will be wiped out pretty swiftly though so your mistake won't last long.
I too used to play Dino D-Day.
Neither did most humans throughout history, but nobody ever seems to give a damn about that. What makes animals so special that their lives are somehow worth more than human lives?
If it were 1400, maybe
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How the heck did I mix up the images?
That is one happy dino
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
HAPAS ARE SUPERIOR TO WHITES
Of course he's happy, he gets his very own quad-linked rapid fire autocannons, and the Germanic flak-autists necessary to keep them functional. Wouldn't you be smiling if you had those things?
What would you do when their feathers cause the gun to jam?
I gotta better idea.
Instead of one big dumb animal that no longer exists, and has no stealth…..use a bunch of smaller, smarter existing animals with good track records. Ride on a "raft" of Husky or other work-dogs. Since it lots of smaller units, you could get over walls and trenches that one big one couldn't. Put each dog on the end of raft pole and send them across or over. Ideally, you would have some wheels and normally it would only take two or four dogs to pull you and the rest of pack as they ride and rest, so everyone is fresh for action.
Naturally, all the dogs would be cross trained as individual pack dogs, recon, sentry, and attack, including suicide-vest mode.
Why would you not pluck your dinosaurs before attaching the equipment?
How suitable would mosasaurs be for hunting refugee boats in the mediterranean?
Both of those are the size of labrador retrievers. Utahraptor was the only man sized raptor.
They were deep sea hunters eating giant squids like humpbacks today, wont affect surface ships.
What about trained Plesiosauria then?
They can peek over the water with their long necks and pluck niggers off their boats one by one.
That's going to be a long process, and you'd need a team of trained Dakasaurs (or similar breeds) providing a cordon to deal with attempted swimmers. Much more cost effective to just fire a torpedo - mount them on the Plesiosaur if you want to keep to the thread theme.
Anything is possible in Clown World.
Shouldn't clown world be funny rather than depressing?
Going to need a citation on that claim.
I like this bad boy.
How do you feel about hermit crabs?
Amazing. What's the sauce on these?
Most of the myths of IE peoples make heavy use of metaphor and symbolism to convey knowledge. This was known and is said in various pagan texts.
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Give me command of a unit of Quetzalcoatlus northropi mounted air cav and we're in business But actual air cavalry; with lances, sabres, and some kind of man portable AGL as a sidearm (firing a carbine on the wing at a moving target is not the best idea, your shot:kill ratio is probably going to be bad enough with sensor fused airburst grenades)
Man, it's shame there were no domesticated Tyrannosaurids back in ancient times.
RL really is one of the worst possible timelines.