TheOriginalEvilD Posted May 19, 2016 Share Posted May 19, 2016 (edited) You can shoot a vertibird down with an un-modded 10mm pistol. 'nuff said... Well that's a game balance issue. If they made them flying tanks it would be overpowered. Most aircraft are pretty sensitive to gunfire anyway. The hilarious thing is one well placed shot with a rocket launcher would take down the Prydwyn with ease, yet nobody ever fires on it. Edited May 19, 2016 by Evil D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulatreides0 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) You can shoot a vertibird down with an un-modded 10mm pistol. 'nuff said... Well that's a game balance issue. If they made them flying tanks it would be overpowered. Most aircraft are pretty sensitive to gunfire anyway. The hilarious thing is one well placed shot with a rocket launcher would take down the Prydwyn with ease, yet nobody ever fires on it. That's not necessarily true. If it uses helium for lift, which it probably does, it would be easier to bring down a battleship than bring down the Prydwyn. Edited May 20, 2016 by paulatreides0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOriginalEvilD Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 You can shoot a vertibird down with an un-modded 10mm pistol. 'nuff said... Well that's a game balance issue. If they made them flying tanks it would be overpowered. Most aircraft are pretty sensitive to gunfire anyway. The hilarious thing is one well placed shot with a rocket launcher would take down the Prydwyn with ease, yet nobody ever fires on it. That's not necessarily true. If it uses helium for lift, which it probably does, it would be easier to bring down a battleship than bring down the Prydwyn. I'm not following your logic here. If you blow a hole in the side of a blimp, the blimp falls. The sides of that thing aren't steel or else no known gas could make it float, it would be too heavy. The last military to try using blimps were the Germans...ask them how that worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hallgarth Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) The Prydwyn isn't a blimp. The large blimp-like ballon structure is the main part of the ship. it's where the mess-hall, the beds, Teagan and the power armour stations are all located. The ship uses some kind of vertical thruster to keep it airborne, which you can see on the outside. Edited May 20, 2016 by Hallgarth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOriginalEvilD Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 The Prydwyn isn't a blimp. The large blimp-like ballon structure is the main part of the ship. it's where the mess-hall, the beds, Teagan and the power armour stations are all located. The ship uses some kind of vertical thruster to keep it airborne, which you can see on the outside. Well all blimps use some kind of outer thrust to move itself. I guess you're right that inside the blimp is where everything is. Now that you mention it, that's a really stupid design. There's no reason at all for it to be shaped like a blimp if it's not a blimp. Just makes me wanna blow the stupid thing up even more now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulatreides0 Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 (edited) You can shoot a vertibird down with an un-modded 10mm pistol. 'nuff said... Well that's a game balance issue. If they made them flying tanks it would be overpowered. Most aircraft are pretty sensitive to gunfire anyway. The hilarious thing is one well placed shot with a rocket launcher would take down the Prydwyn with ease, yet nobody ever fires on it. That's not necessarily true. If it uses helium for lift, which it probably does, it would be easier to bring down a battleship than bring down the Prydwyn. I'm not following your logic here. If you blow a hole in the side of a blimp, the blimp falls. The sides of that thing aren't steel or else no known gas could make it float, it would be too heavy. The last military to try using blimps were the Germans...ask them how that worked out. Blimps were actually notoriously difficult to shoot down. This is because the gas compartments were split up into so many different gas chambers that you had destroy separately that it became extremely impractical. During the early days of WWI destroying a blimp was actually extremely difficult and time consuming, so much so that one of the primary reasons that incendiary rounds were invented was to make it easier to take down blimps - because they would cause a chain reaction that makes it go down in flames. Helium, which is chemically inert, doesn't have this weakness. Your claim that the last ones to try out the blimps were Germans is also mistaken. Examples off the top of my head include the Navy's N-Class blimps of the 1950s and the far more recent MZ-3s. As well as the US' JLENSs and Israel's Skystar 300s. Although, granted, they are far rare than they used to be. That being said, blimps weren't replaced because they were easy to shoot down, but simply because they were slow, pondering things that became increasingly inefficient investments as the capabilities of modern aircraft continued to expand and exceed them more and more. The Prydwyn isn't a blimp. The large blimp-like ballon structure is the main part of the ship. it's where the mess-hall, the beds, Teagan and the power armour stations are all located. The ship uses some kind of vertical thruster to keep it airborne, which you can see on the outside. That's not true. The Prydwen is most certainly a blimp and you can clearly see it's gas bags here: Edited May 20, 2016 by paulatreides0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krwada Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 You can shoot a vertibird down with an un-modded 10mm pistol. 'nuff said... Well that's a game balance issue. If they made them flying tanks it would be overpowered. Most aircraft are pretty sensitive to gunfire anyway. The hilarious thing is one well placed shot with a rocket launcher would take down the Prydwyn with ease, yet nobody ever fires on it. Have you done this? I had not thought about doing this. I may just do without saving just to see what happens. I have shot at the Prydwyn when I 1st got out of Fort Hagen ... Nothing happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOriginalEvilD Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 No, never shot the Prydwyn, I was speaking in "real life" terms. I still find it hard to believe that one well placed RPG wouldn't take down a blimp, regardless of how it's built. It's not like they're hard to hit being enormous and slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noahdvs Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 Apparently, the Prydwen uses Hydrogen. Kind of stupid. Why? I'm guessing it's because Bethesda wanted Airship Down to have a nice, big explosion.http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Prydwen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
minngarm Posted May 20, 2016 Share Posted May 20, 2016 No, never shot the Prydwyn, I was speaking in "real life" terms. I still find it hard to believe that one well placed RPG wouldn't take down a blimp, regardless of how it's built. It's not like they're hard to hit being enormous and slow.Other guy already pointed out how inexperienced you are in the concept and practical use of military blimps. So yea still wrong about it. Also that outer shell is armor plated, and consists of multiple layers. The same exact concept used to make modern tank armor. Remember this is a post WWII era time line. All the tech advantages gleamed from WWII apply ontop of the alternative Tesla tech and psuedo fusion/fission tech. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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