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Dwarf Faction War Machine: Steamcopter
Steamcopter:
“A dwarf’s feet should never leave solid stone” this old time dwarven teaching is constantly directed and the youthful and adventurous beardlings. It is meant to teach patience and an adherence to the older, more traditional ways of doing things. The energetic younglings role their eyes as the longbeard’s go on to tell them about how the centuries have made the dwarven race more soft, and how the past ways of doing things were always tried and true. The dwarven Engineers would have a thing or two to say about the adherence to the old ways, and also about dwarven feet never leaving the ground…
The engineers always looked to the ceilings of their immense mountain caverns or across the wide mountain valleys and thought of ways to traverse these impassible obstacles. They wanted to be able to mine the mineral veins at the top of the ceiling or be able to traverse the mountain valleys in no time at all. Always seeking out ways to be more efficient and effective, the engineers would study the only large flying beasts that they knew of at the time, dragons. Dwarves and dragons have a fierce and bitter hatred for each other, for each covet gold and seek to rule the mountains.
The engineers wanted to replicate the dragons flight pattern to be able to take to the skies like the large, terrible beasts that plagued their lands. Outfitting a large steam engine, with several pistons that turn a drive shaft at amazingly fast speeds, onto a crude platform and attached with several hovering blades, the first Steamcopter was born. Barely even considered a prototype by engineers of todays standards, this mechanical marvel was one of the most crucial inventions in dwarven history.
Since then, the Steamcopter has been improved upon and developed into what it is today, a terror on the battlefield. Able to hover over enemy lines or shoot across the battlefield at quick speeds, the Steamcopter is truly a marvel to behold. Now it is outfitted with more powerful and durable steam engine that has many gears and pulleys that spin the main rotor and the tail rotor. In the cockpit sits an engineer that controls the pitch and thrust of the aircraft with a series of levers, switches, and gauges.
The real might of the Steamcopter, however, comes in its battlefield weaponry. It can be outfitted with a armory’s worth of weapons, from carronades to grapple hooks and air spears, the Steamcopter is able to hover above enemy lines before unleashing a salvo of death. Front facing firepower isn’t all that the Steamcopter possesses, however. On the bottom of the hovercraft hang a small payload of Ironbusters, which are explosives devices filled with the famed black powder that the dwarves covet so much.
Truly a force to be feared on the battlefield, the Steamcopter is an magnificent marvel indeed.
Dwarf Faction War Machine: Steamcopter
Steamcopter:
“A dwarf’s feet should never leave solid stone” this old time dwarven teaching is constantly directed and the youthful and adventurous beardlings. It is meant to teach patience and an adherence to the older, more traditional ways of doing things. The energetic younglings role their eyes as the longbeard’s go on to tell them about how the centuries have made the dwarven race more soft, and how the past ways of doing things were always tried and true. The dwarven Engineers would have a thing or two to say about the adherence to the old ways, and also about dwarven feet never leaving the ground…
The engineers always looked to the ceilings of their immense mountain caverns or across the wide mountain valleys and thought of ways to traverse these impassible obstacles. They wanted to be able to mine the mineral veins at the top of the ceiling or be able to traverse the mountain valleys in no time at all. Always seeking out ways to be more efficient and effective, the engineers would study the only large flying beasts that they knew of at the time, dragons. Dwarves and dragons have a fierce and bitter hatred for each other, for each covet gold and seek to rule the mountains.
The engineers wanted to replicate the dragons flight pattern to be able to take to the skies like the large, terrible beasts that plagued their lands. Outfitting a large steam engine, with several pistons that turn a drive shaft at amazingly fast speeds, onto a crude platform and attached with several hovering blades, the first Steamcopter was born. Barely even considered a prototype by engineers of todays standards, this mechanical marvel was one of the most crucial inventions in dwarven history.
Since then, the Steamcopter has been improved upon and developed into what it is today, a terror on the battlefield. Able to hover over enemy lines or shoot across the battlefield at quick speeds, the Steamcopter is truly a marvel to behold. Now it is outfitted with more powerful and durable steam engine that has many gears and pulleys that spin the main rotor and the tail rotor. In the cockpit sits an engineer that controls the pitch and thrust of the aircraft with a series of levers, switches, and gauges.
The real might of the Steamcopter, however, comes in its battlefield weaponry. It can be outfitted with a armory’s worth of weapons, from carronades to grapple hooks and air spears, the Steamcopter is able to hover above enemy lines before unleashing a salvo of death. Front facing firepower isn’t all that the Steamcopter possesses, however. On the bottom of the hovercraft hang a small payload of Ironbusters, which are explosives devices filled with the famed black powder that the dwarves covet so much.
Truly a force to be feared on the battlefield, the Steamcopter is an magnificent marvel indeed.