#Horizontal barrel gimble on axis

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wise venture
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this suggests that unlike naval guns it be treated kind of like tank barrels and given a gimble allowing 5 degrees of horizontal movement in both the left or right axis

Projected feasibility: (7-8 / 10)

Impact: very impactful- more aiming and firing opportunities

Detailed description: if this were to be added. It would be a boon to aiming as if you have two targets that are super close together yet can’t be hit with the current fixed spacing of the guns. It would allow you to adjust the weapon aim with a gimble on each barrel in the left- right horizontal direction by up to 3-5 degrees in either direction. Thus allowing instead of directly firing in lines, a slight cone of fire arc to be able to hit those tricky targets

Conditions: this would come into effect when at the gun elevation station by adding the option of slight horizontal directional movement thus allowing more angles of attack/

or wider scouting with star shells by being able to place two starshells next to each other but not having overlapping films.

Rarity: common . (Personally extremely common)

I thought about needing more angle almost every time I fired using starshells for the express purpose of wider scouting area

Effect: if this was implemented it would have the effect of more variation in aiming options by allowing more angles of fire with a gimble in each barrel .

It would allow more tricky shots to be accomplished.

I believe it would be a major benefit for the game.

Since the Nest is land based I believe engineers would of treated it more like a tank turret when building the nest thus this would be a natural implementation from a lore perspective to include a gimble in the barrels as the nest is basically a gigantic self propelled gun like the m109A1, given the amount you can elevate the guns

If the nest is just a naval turret strapped with legs without being built from the ground up in lore, it might not make much sense since naval guns don’t include a gimbal for horizontal barrel rotation

Video one shows the concept

Image 1 shows there is space inside the nest for this concept to work

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Horizontal barrel gimble on axis

lofty wind
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Honestly, I don't know how much this matters. The barrels of the gun are very close together, even the HE shell (the smaller of the area-effect options) covers the area of both barrels easily, probably even several more times than the width Iron Nest itself.

Furthermore, gimble is used on casemate tanks because they have no way to adjust horizontally without spinning the entire tank, whereas the Iron Nest is already on a turret. Rotating the entire turret 5 degrees to get the same effect as the gimble takes only a few seconds, and the barrels can be shot out of sync, achieving the same result as a gimble mechanic.

wise venture
lofty wind
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that's true, but then the question is "What is going to move so fast that it's position will have changed between the first and second shots hitting?"

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or maybe the better question is "When you have two 80cm cannons, what is a tricky target?"

wise venture
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I’m thinking along the lines of wide scouting,

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Needing two ap shells within that cone and you need to fire quickly

Or if your running out of time on the clock you could hit two precalculated Artillery positions thus adding 60 secs

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If you’d put both barrels at the widest settings if my napkin math is correct it give you just slightly overlapping photo sets if starshells are used

lofty wind
manic hare
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I really dislike how you put this and don't understand your reasoning because tanks in general don't have a gimble for lateral movement. That's only SPGs without turrets which need to turn the gun because rotating the whole vehicle does not give any precision. The Iron Nest is a turret in itself and allowing lateral movement is unnecessary from an engineering standpoint unless it was completely redesigned so that turret rotation was achieved using legs.

Also, this is a duplicate, there have been at least two nearly identical suggestions.

honest blaze
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The idea in itself seems tombe good but the implication is too unfeasable. This would require an entire turret redesign

cedar marsh
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this idea has already been discussed

kindred plume
kindred plume