Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4830106-20130809183159/@comment-5739379-20130824233709

BRTE500 wrote: I142 wrote: MakiKuronami wrote: Delta Hunter's Moon wrote: What if Nora's weapon uses a similar mechanism to Ruby's Crescent Rose? I'm sticking with my theory that it could possibly be a railgun that doubles as a Warhammer, but then again I could be wrong. Correct me on this, but I was on chat yesterday, discussing the mechanics of a railgun.

It eats up a lot of energy, and reloading it is a bit of a bitch. As a bonus, the electrical discharge while charging it can power up the warhammer with lightning properties.

Recoil attack though? One-time overkill smashing hit. The problem with this is that, due to the way it fires, (accelerating the projectile through the use multiple magnets placed inside the barrel) a railgun has no recoil. I personally agree with a lot of people saying grenade launcher, the weapon on Nora's back bares a resemblance to the M32 Multiple Grenade Launcher. Railguns have a great deal of recoil because they are accelerating a projectile to high speeds, every action has a equal and opposite reaction? What is the action and reaction when you pass a magnet over a pin? A railgun has the same Action and reaction. The recoil in normal guns is caused to the explosion that accelerates the projectile; a railgun has no such explosion, which results in a different reaction. According to Physics Forums a paper in a paper from the Naval Postgraduate School an attempt to measure recoil forces in a rail gun failed to find any. I have also read on multiple websites that if a railgun had any recoil, it would be distributed over a longer amount of time, so maybe what I should say is "no noticeable recoil."