Last of the automata (for now)
Krupp Precision Siege Gun (Prussia 1900)BODY [50], MIND [8], SOUL [-], Military Arms [10], Morse Code [9], Spelling [9]
Cost: Circa £150,000
Weight: 250 tons
Carrying Capacity: -
Endurance: -
Reaction Time: 5-10 minutes (mostly time required to aim the gun, return to the firing point after recoil, reload, etc.)
Reliability: 10
Built-In Equipment: Naval gun, five parallel fast superior quality calculating engines with precision arithmetic, four telegraphs, two colour eyes fitted to telescopic periscopes, typewriter, anti-phonograph.
Also Carried: See below.
Quote: "Ready to fire."
Description: An "intelligent" railway-carried field gun (based on a naval design) capable of precision fire at a range of up to fifty kilometres. Its shell weighs more than a ton, and can be fired with an accuracy of
Notes: Traversing the gun horizontally requires a section of curved track or a railway turntable for coarse adjustment, with the fine adjustment made at the gun mount. In use an advance party of engineers and surveyors finds a suitable area of hard ground on or near a railway line, and sets up an appropriate position, usually a curved section of track with extra rails parallel to the main track for stabilising outrigger bogies. Once this position is prepared the artillery train is brought forward and the gun is set up, a procedure that usually takes several hours. Meanwhile defensive positions are prepared and manned, observers go forward with telegraph lines and direction-finding equipment, etc. Once the gun is in position and assembled the first ranging shots can be fired, the aim is automatically adjusted to compensate for the observations reported to it, and a steady bombardment can begin.
(suggested by Sir Ernest)