Chounin A wa Akuyaku Reijou wo Doushitemo Sukuitai ~Dobu to Sora to Kouri no Hime-kun~ - Vol. 8 Ch. 36.1 - Despair

[essensue]

It's not a perfect weapon. Ice shards have a cap in destructive potential, and breaking wooden structures relies on the initial blast.

There are ways to adapt to it, which is why he's relying on fear, stealth, evaporation, and rapid assault to capitalize on his advantage as long as he can.

That said, even if the enemy was able to develop countermeasures, bombing the horses alone would paralyze them on a military level.

Great points, especially the horses part.

Spoiler: I prefer my disbelief suspended, but:

Further: Ice doesn't even really make shrapnel-effective shards under these conditions so much as "a few big chunks" and "snow-like powder." Cloth armor would be sufficient. The fact that it's shown separating wooden items at their joints rather than blowing it all to splinters, and launching dudes a few feet rather than shredding them, suggests the effective AP radius on these is about zilch. They literally might be more effective if they detonate AFTER bonking an unhelmeted foe.

The single most effective adaptation they could make for infantry might be earplugs and goggles.

I mostly bring all this up to say that the physics of how modern humans fight is terrifying.

 

[MagnaDrake]

Why the hell his aircraft is so damn ugly? I think the author should have looked at photos of planes for reference. Maybe a WWII attack aircraft or something like that, fortunately there were a lot of different ones

Its modelled after a lightweight glider. They all look like that in real life.

 

[Areos]

That was pure awesome seeing that bomber in action, giving hell to the enemy, just like in the LN.
I can wait for next chapters

 

[Morose]

Why the hell his aircraft is so damn ugly?

Maybe because MC didn't have the time to think about aesthetics, and focused more on usability and practicality.
I mean, normal aviation methods aren't fully applicable here, as it basically runs on magic.

 

[ColdEnviousOne]

This two-month wait for half a chapter is sad.

 

[darkeden112]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

Ah the famous checklist.

 

[Schernobyl]

Praise Lorigas ! The time for the war crimes is upon us! If Jerome is the wyvern lord can he not command all the wyvern to look for Anna? An army of monsters fighting for Allen would help with the shock and awe campaign

 

[jasty]

Why are people saying this is a war crime? This is just war. Bombing enemy soldiers is 100% allowed.

 

[chendu]

Tanks for the food

War crimes my beloved

It's not a war crimes if there aren't rules about it :3

 

[hurafloyd]

Normally I'd agree, but it's just an absolutely horrible aircraft it can't even be a decent cropduster

Alexander the ok has a whole video about the PZL M-15 and it's just...yeah

I do at least commend the design realism (disbelief suspended appropriately)

Never would have known about that plane if it werent for you lol…

 

[Kaarme]

It's not a perfect weapon. Ice shards have a cap in destructive potential, and breaking wooden structures relies on the initial blast.

Isn't it magically reinforced ice, to make sure he can compress so much air inside that the pressure is enough to create a dangerous bomb? No reason to assume the shards don't keep that reinforcement until they melt.

 

[Kuroku]

To be fair if he found out what happened to her, he’d gladly mustard gas them too

 

[Mas45]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

 

[Justking14]

The choices we make in life can have dire consequences in time.

Having a pissed off mage dive bombing your armies with crushed ice because you took his girl, for example.

I’m holding off on the novel even though it’s pretty short, but I hope this picks up the pace a bit. Some people gotta die…

This series has a lot of rage inducing moments so I preferred binging through the novel to get to the justice. if I remember correctly it was about 100 chapters and I binged it in a day

 

[homerman87]

i'm surprised allen this quickly thought up a new aircraft able to hold this kind of ammunition. felt like he had to do alot more rinse and repeat, trial and errors, on his first one. and his ammunition in itself is quite the ingenious idea. and while i realise he'd been using magic all the time for his weapons and his glider, he's now expanding the usage for magic weaponry, quite a big step up, so i hope his magic reserves are keeping up.

Since he only really needs to account for the increased weight of the water (which likely takes the place of cargo.) It honestly wouldn't take too long to make an upgraded glider like this since he already used this kind of attack on the bandits. Creating the first working model of anything is always the hardest part, but once that's done, it's usually not too difficult to add simple upgrades, especially if the upgrades in question don't have any conflict with how things function (it's all based on the application of his mana, so the glider is more a conduit while his mana control does all the work.)

 

[homerman87]

And here we see the reason that stuff like the geneva convention exists, not that that can stop our MC in another world 😜

 

[Sar_Ptolemy]

so much for positive target ID

 

[Septazia]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

Geneva? Japan? Europe? Sorry pal, never heard of those kingdoms.

EDIT: but seriously, these bombs don't leave unexploded ordinance, is ice, so it doesn't pose the threat that real cluster bombs do.

 

[outinthegardener]

Are we just joking about the war crimes? The closest thing I saw was the possibility of killing captured civilians in the first village, though the author avoided showing us such an event. That one naked woman we saw was spared, and might not even be a civvie.

I'm guessing it was more explicit in the WN and the manga is toning it down?

 

[rozert]

Friendly reminder that cluster bombs are a violation of the Geneva Suggestion.

It's a shrapnel bombs