Chounin A wa Akuyaku Reijou o Doushitemo Sukuitai: Dobu to Sora to Koori no Himegimi - Vol. 10 Ch. 48.1 - Independence

[MangaDex]

 

[Uxio]

Good luck and thanks for your hard work o7

 

[TheWanderer567]

Amy's ahoge faces are something to behold in this series.

 

[razorshaleh]

Bwahhahaa, after all that fiery speech about being confident they’d win, they immediately got hit by reality when the kingdom’s army got completely destroyed by MC alone

thank you for translation

 

[ssj4maiko]

This reminds me of Borat, explaining that if the US targets Kazakhstan, they will prepare their catapults. I can't remember the exact context though.
I think Kazakhstan was complaining that Borat was mocking their nation, and Borat released a press release about their weapons like Catapults and stuff

 

[phorx]

It’s too bad that the crown prince and Amy weren’t in the group that was wiped out. TBH giving them a 1:1 death in person is more than they deserve so just being one more corpse in a pile would have suited them just fine.

 

[OWMWO]

It's over, prince!! Allen have the high ground!!

 

[TheCasualEnjoyer]

Using ballista to try and hit something that could fly over mountains is hilarious. 500 yards is the maximum effective range for those ballista shown on the picture. 500 yards while yes is pretty far, it isn't all that far in comparison to a plane, 500 yards is roughly around 4-5 football fields. Meanwhile a normal carpet bomber plane flies around 2000 yards in height, maybe 800-1000 being charitable because that is the minimum height for small planes. This is ignoring the fact that in Chp 8 he also flew his plane all the way to the top tower beyond the clouds too. Clouds are at a height of around 2166 yards,

This witch and her simps about to learn the terrors of modern warfare. A small taste of it at least.

 

[xathrya]

the prince and the gang has been captured.
the kingdom army is collapsed in one battle

 

[Grishnag]

Shooting dragons with a ballistae worked wonders in GoT surely shooting an even faster moving smaller target will work too!
I mean in universe they don't have any of the information that we have as the audience so its a kinda logical, didn't work out for them though.

 

[essensue]

Surprised the prince has the moisture left to sweat after furiously pissing himself empty.
His poor goddamn horse.

 

[thycondrius]

Oh hell yeah, get fucked!

But theres more to come!!!

 

[SCXVV]

I think she should already start suspecting something about the main character, since he "invented" the plane.

 

[MadlySoldier]

They think they reached the Milestones before other, but the truth is, their enemies already reached beyond that for so long.
In term of some game, when you think reaching Tier 3 Technology gave you biggest advantage, but your enemy already reached Tier 5/6

 

[megaman12321]

Wow not even a chance, just hard obliterated. Fucking army gets wasted off screen lol

 

[Acolytus]

Dumbass tried to use GoT S8 tactics.

 

[dankenglish]

Using ballista to try and hit something that could fly over mountains is hilarious. 500 yards is the maximum effective range for those ballista shown on the picture. 500 yards while yes is pretty far, it isn't all that far in comparison to a plane, 500 yards is roughly around 4-5 football fields. Meanwhile a normal carpet bomber plane flies around 2000 yards in height, maybe 800-1000 being charitable because that is the minimum height for small planes. This is ignoring the fact that in Chp 8 he also flew his plane all the way to the top tower beyond the clouds too. Clouds are at a height of around 2166 yards,

This witch and her simps about to learn the terrors of modern warfare. A small taste of it at least.

This is also not factoring in the speed of the ammunition. Cold arm projectiles are subsonic. Even if they have the range to hit aircraft, the shooter will need to lead and the pilot will need to be asleep. Either that or there needs to be so many projectiles that the pilot cannot evade.

Even for most of WW2, anti-air guns were extremely inefficient in downing aircraft for similar reasons. While the rounds could reach the required altitude, supersonic rounds still required a few seconds to travel. Prop planes move at such speeds that a few seconds might mean a hundred yards difference in position. That's why we see not only volume of fire being important, but also timed explosions, which broaden the effect of each round.

Ultimately, proximity fuses solved the WW2 anti-air issue by sticking a tiny radar into an anti-air round; this meant the crew didn't have to guess and manually input the timing of the explosion. All they had to do was shoot close enough to the target, and the round would explode when it came close enough to the plane.

Of course, jet propulsion would overturn that meta again because planes would be too fast for a gun. that's why radars and SAMs are used these days for taking out modern jets.

the MC's plane on page 8 seems to be the straight-wing CAS type. slow-flying in modern combat terms, but still ungodly fast for cold arms. that dinky medieval artillery isn't doing a damn thing.

 

[Kuroageha]

Who is their strategist?
Dumb and Dumber from GOT?

 

[Tatsuya-Kai]

This is also not factoring in the speed of the ammunition. Cold arm projectiles are subsonic. Even if they have the range to hit aircraft, the shooter will need to lead and the pilot will need to be asleep. Either that or there needs to be so many projectiles that the pilot cannot evade.

Even for most of WW2, anti-air guns were extremely inefficient in downing aircraft for similar reasons. While the rounds could reach the required altitude, supersonic rounds still required a few seconds to travel. Prop planes move at such speeds that a few seconds might mean a hundred yards difference in position. That's why we see not only volume of fire being important, but also timed explosions, which broaden the effect of each round.

Ultimately, proximity fuses solved the WW2 anti-air issue by sticking a tiny radar into an anti-air round; this meant the crew didn't have to guess and manually input the timing of the explosion. All they had to do was shoot close enough to the target, and the round would explode when it came close enough to the plane.

Of course, jet propulsion would overturn that meta again because planes would be too fast for a gun. that's why radars and SAMs are used these days for taking out modern jets.

the MC's plane on page 8 seems to be the straight-wing CAS type. slow-flying in modern combat terms, but still ungodly fast for cold arms. that dinky medieval artillery isn't doing a damn thing.

The US recently tested a directed energy weapon, what people tend to call laser (though this isn't accurate), so that is likely going to eventually make the meta change once again once the size issues are dealt with.

 

[TheCasualEnjoyer]

This is also not factoring in the speed of the ammunition. Cold arm projectiles are subsonic. Even if they have the range to hit aircraft, the shooter will need to lead and the pilot will need to be asleep. Either that or there needs to be so many projectiles that the pilot cannot evade.

Even for most of WW2, anti-air guns were extremely inefficient in downing aircraft for similar reasons. While the rounds could reach the required altitude, supersonic rounds still required a few seconds to travel. Prop planes move at such speeds that a few seconds might mean a hundred yards difference in position. That's why we see not only volume of fire being important, but also timed explosions, which broaden the effect of each round.

Ultimately, proximity fuses solved the WW2 anti-air issue by sticking a tiny radar into an anti-air round; this meant the crew didn't have to guess and manually input the timing of the explosion. All they had to do was shoot close enough to the target, and the round would explode when it came close enough to the plane.

Of course, jet propulsion would overturn that meta again because planes would be too fast for a gun. that's why radars and SAMs are used these days for taking out modern jets.

the MC's plane on page 8 seems to be the straight-wing CAS type. slow-flying in modern combat terms, but still ungodly fast for cold arms. that dinky medieval artillery isn't doing a damn thing.

Agree. That is also not even factoring the wind speeds too. Wind speeds generally increase with altitude, meaning that their shoots are going to be extremely inaccurate. But it is like you said, they'd need so much ballistas/projectiles that it isn't logistically possible, they'd go into a national debt and run out of precious wood/iron resources.

Guess little Amy didn't do her research enough (judging that it was her who gave the idea of the ballista, based on the prince's wording of "new weapon"). Back to school, witch! more science and less otome games.

Would be really funny if they tried it again, making more of those ballistas only to have them stolen because they couldn't field enough people to protect them (and are cumbersome to move) and it ended up being used against them for a siege.