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[wanderer]

That's the British super-flamethrower that ended up banned after WW1, an example of which was dug up and then reconstructed for scientific purposes.

Edited by wanderer, 01 August 2014 - 11:57 AM.

[Cactus In The Rear]

I think that flamer is more deadly than the MWO flamer.

[Sereglach]

As a piece of beautiful pyrotechnic (weapons dealing in fire and explosives) ordinance, that is an amazing pinnacle of design and achievement for the time. Seeing if fire is amazing, and beautiful in it's own twisted fashion. The weapon was built for a purpose, and it did its job quite well. The fact that we utilized backpack sized versions in WWII stands as testament to that. The fact that it singed the historians' faces from nearly 200 feet away is quite an achievement of heat, as well. Being a pyro, and having never seen this before, I thank you wholeheartedly for sharing. That was amazing, and quite a gorgeous weapon for its simplicity and effectiveness.

Now if only they would make the MWO Flamer the same quality of purpose-built weapon for use in our game. Do its job (incinerating enemies) and do it well. Besides, a MWO Flamer uses thermal plasma, burning at several thousand degrees! What's not to love, there!

[Hex Pallett]

I'm imagining the flaming diesel mixture blazing and smoking its away across the dark, rainy sky of WWI, landing on the ground and into the trenches where the German soldiers hide, and they howl and scream and clench their faces, trying to roll in the cramped, muddy ground, as the smell of burnt fabric and flesh along with inhuman cry fill the trenches.

And now I feel a little sick.

[Sereglach]

Helmstif, on 01 August 2014 - 08:53 PM, said:

I'm imagining the flaming diesel mixture blazing and smoking its away across the dark, rainy sky of WWI, landing on the ground and into the trenches where the German soldiers hide, and they howl and scream and clench their faces, trying to roll in the cramped, muddy ground, as the smell of burnt fabric and flesh along with inhuman cry fill the trenches.

And now I feel a little sick.

As if the thousands mowed down by pillbox machine guns, eaten away by mustard gas, swallowed by under-trench sapper charges, and vaporized by air-bursting artillery WEREN'T bad?!

Having been to war and being a combat veteran, and losing many friends, I can tell you that there is nothing beautiful about war, but War is Hell's Ballet, and as long as two different humans with two different opinions live on this planet, then there will always be war. War is a necessary evil, and that's all I'm going to say about that.

[Lily from animove]

Helmstif, on 01 August 2014 - 08:53 PM, said:

I'm imagining the flaming diesel mixture blazing and smoking its away across the dark, rainy sky of WWI, landing on the ground and into the trenches where the German soldiers hide, and they howl and scream and clench their faces, trying to roll in the cramped, muddy ground, as the smell of burnt fabric and flesh along with inhuman cry fill the trenches.

And now I feel a little sick.

think about the napalm, the US used, which even if you would jumped into water would continue to burn. War is great on the screen, but horrible and senseless in reallife.

[Turist0AT]

war never changes

[Lexx]

Xanilos, on 01 August 2014 - 03:23 PM, said:

I think that flamer is more deadly than the MWO flamer.

A Zippo lighter is more deadly than the MWO flamer,...