Post by Dazim on Oct 19, 2014 9:52:15 GMT
If you want me to go into any more detail on any of this just ask i have some stuff in my notebook that i can reference.
Scout balloons have taken my fancy so ill skip to that proposal for now.
If a horse is a matter of personal pride then a scout balloon(or several) would be the pride of a tribe(family? i don't know the word for a small group of tribesman). Originally used to keep watch over wandering herds of livestock and slaves(serfs? im not sure how slave like they are) they allowed a relative few to do the work of many by tracking horse thieves, scouting passes to move livestock through and watching for bandits and invading tribes from the air.
There is little standardisation between any two balloons but they all use the same principle a "bag" made of treated cloth or animal product with a vent to allow for a rapid decrease in height, a basket with room for 1-3 people and a heating device used to heat the air in the bag to allow flight. I would think the earliest use of these devices by the khanate were pre war recreation hot air balloons and that over time more would be built out of composite materials (textiles, light woods,bamboo maybe some metal salvaged from city's/aircraft if its light enough) do to the advantages granted to any tribe able to own and maintain one.
Now i hear you asking "Dazim would the advantage be almost gone by the time the balloon hit the ground to reveal their info" and to you i say yes if the balloon had to land to impart urgent knowledge that would be a problem, however if you consider that these people are far from dumb and that fireworks are about as entrenched in the general areas history as can be the solution is simple for any urgent matters such as an impending invasion or raid an appropriate coloured firework can be launched in the direction of the attackers giving time for defences to be set up without having to keep and maintain a large amount of listening posts. As for tracking thieves, livestock and wild game simply hovering above or near the target can show the rest of the hunters the way. And if details are still needed written warnings(assuming they can write) could perhaps be put on a device akin to a colourful frisbee and thrown great distances to be retrieved and read(now that i think of it if they were built right a frisbee bomb might just work).
Any one have any comments or ideas? I am loooking forwerd to seeing what we can field in the name of the khanate.
Scout balloons have taken my fancy so ill skip to that proposal for now.
If a horse is a matter of personal pride then a scout balloon(or several) would be the pride of a tribe(family? i don't know the word for a small group of tribesman). Originally used to keep watch over wandering herds of livestock and slaves(serfs? im not sure how slave like they are) they allowed a relative few to do the work of many by tracking horse thieves, scouting passes to move livestock through and watching for bandits and invading tribes from the air.
There is little standardisation between any two balloons but they all use the same principle a "bag" made of treated cloth or animal product with a vent to allow for a rapid decrease in height, a basket with room for 1-3 people and a heating device used to heat the air in the bag to allow flight. I would think the earliest use of these devices by the khanate were pre war recreation hot air balloons and that over time more would be built out of composite materials (textiles, light woods,bamboo maybe some metal salvaged from city's/aircraft if its light enough) do to the advantages granted to any tribe able to own and maintain one.
Now i hear you asking "Dazim would the advantage be almost gone by the time the balloon hit the ground to reveal their info" and to you i say yes if the balloon had to land to impart urgent knowledge that would be a problem, however if you consider that these people are far from dumb and that fireworks are about as entrenched in the general areas history as can be the solution is simple for any urgent matters such as an impending invasion or raid an appropriate coloured firework can be launched in the direction of the attackers giving time for defences to be set up without having to keep and maintain a large amount of listening posts. As for tracking thieves, livestock and wild game simply hovering above or near the target can show the rest of the hunters the way. And if details are still needed written warnings(assuming they can write) could perhaps be put on a device akin to a colourful frisbee and thrown great distances to be retrieved and read(now that i think of it if they were built right a frisbee bomb might just work).
Any one have any comments or ideas? I am loooking forwerd to seeing what we can field in the name of the khanate.
