Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25396609-20170201191933

SomeoneYouUsedToKnow wrote: Phantomlink959 wrote: they kill the titans by cutting the neck open with those stupid exacto knife swords.

You load up the canons with chain shot and just behead the bastards. ......They don't kill them by slicing the neck. They must slice the back of the neck specifically.

They lack the resources to make enough cannons, nor make enough cannonballs and chains. Plus, they would be too slow, and due to the weight of the cannonballs and the chain, their range would be pitiful, and by the time the Titans are within effective range, they would be doomed.

And I don't see how the chain could behead them. Unless you're thinking of some specific kind of chain that isn't the usual, conventional kind.

That idea, Phantom, would only, at best, work with the basic, simple Titans. The ones that look like normal-though-giant naked ugly men. Any of the more "advanced" types of Titans would laugh at that strategy.

They're either too fast to be hit, too sturdy, too evasive, or all of them at the same time. Chain shot (or the more modern bolo shot) effectively creates a flying blade, by loading a full size canon with a large scale version (and they have point defense cannons on the walls so they definitely have the resources to build more) you can create a much large scale version.

they throw away hundreds of those box knife sword blades and a large number of human lives fighting glorified flesh golems; not to mention the resources for building the pelvic thrust flight gear, air compressors, and steel air tanks used to power them. It's more resource efficient to load canons with chains and fire at will, the chain takes the head off (not exactly a clean shot, mind.) but it would do the job with less loss of life.

But then, that wouldn't be as "interesting" to watch as physics defying and incredibly wasteful mid-air combat, now would it?