| abdul666lw | 08 Dec 2012 9:44 a.m. PST |
from link The small 'pipes' between the barrels automatically deliver the priming power when the whole system is rotated
Btw, how would you treat this 'multi-amusettes' contraption on the table-top? |
Shagnasty  | 08 Dec 2012 10:20 a.m. PST |
From the size of the barrels, as musketry. |
| spontoon | 08 Dec 2012 10:38 a.m. PST |
Wow! Amazing. But, I hat cleaning my musket so this would be job from Hell to clean! |
| Musketier | 08 Dec 2012 12:02 p.m. PST |
Very interesting! Looks like a proto-mitrailleuse, something that could be wheeled up to cover a breach for example. Those separate containers for priming powder are a rather ingenious way to reduce the risk of premature firing. |
| abdul666lw | 08 Dec 2012 1:02 p.m. PST |
According to the description the whole system indeed rotated to shoot a burst of successive shots: like the Puckle machine-gun
BUT was a mouth-loader instead of a breech-loader using pre-loaded cylinders. An ingenious variation on the organ gun design, but taking a lot of time to reload, I'm afraid. |
| jgibbons | 08 Dec 2012 3:49 p.m. PST |
Second on the cleaning comment! |
| corporalpat | 08 Dec 2012 9:44 p.m. PST |
I want one! But let one of the new recruits clean it. |
| DucDeGueldres | 09 Dec 2012 2:57 a.m. PST |
Where has this pre-mature machine gun been used in history?
Looks terrifying for those days. |
 Lluis of Minairons  | 09 Dec 2012 5:28 a.m. PST |
Mmmm… Wouldn't anyone produce them in 15mm? …I know an Imagi-Nation where such invention would be enthusiastically welcome… How would you do to simulate its effect according to your favourite ruleset? BLB, for instance. And its reloading lapse of time? |
| abdul666lw | 09 Dec 2012 6:24 a.m. PST |
Lluis,
I'm afraid you'd have to scratchbuild one – would look quite fitting towed by your ingenious 'carried infantry' contraption 
For 15mm a box of 1/72 plastics could provide the barrels and the (oversized) butt? And make it a breech-loader using pre-loaded cartridges like the contemporary 'experimental' musket of Philip V! |
| spontoon | 09 Dec 2012 9:23 a.m. PST |
Shouldn't each barrel have a bayonet? |
| abdul666lw | 09 Dec 2012 9:53 a.m. PST |
No, they shoot bayonets  ! Seriously', reloading under stress would already be a pain, imagine with a bundle of bayonets covering the mouths of the barrels; now, some form of chevaux de frise could be incorporated in the carriage? Some medieval organ guns had such defenses.
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| Come In Nighthawk | 23 Dec 2012 12:51 p.m. PST |
Can just about imagine a BN of Croats (SYW) pushing through a filed and using this "field sweeper" to make headway?  |
| spontoon | 23 Dec 2012 7:08 p.m. PST |
Now,… does anyone make a 28mm Puckle's machinegun? |
