explain WTF is going on with these spikes and WTF they supposed to do against ships or WTF.Its from a famous painting of supposedly a real thingy.Seems if anything it would be handy to lasso and pull ships in, especially anything smaller than a 100-gunner.
>>65275581could you not have posted the actual painting instead of whatever the fuck this is?also, to answer your question, they are giant fuck off spikes, they stick in things that get too close
>>65275596Not OP, here's the actual painting. Cardinal Richelieu at the siege of La Rochelle.
>>65275596cunt find, it was for "age of sail" somewhere in Europe.Can't imagine WTF good they would do unless enemy was coming in inside 500ft dia beach balls.I could see MAYBE if they also had spikes at lower angles and further out over the water
>>65275581I searched “anti ship spikes painting” on DuckDuckGo https://www.boatdesign.net/threads/what-is-going-on-in-this-painting-of-anti-ship-spikes.64674/
>>65275602>Can't imagine WTF good they would do unless enemy was coming in inside 500ftthat's exactly what it's for, I'd presume.
makes a bit more sense, it was to block narrow opening to harborstill, got my doubts as to if painting is accurateIMO likely they made the spike YUGE like it was fighting a massive monster.
I guess its more like fence that curves over the outside.Once you get to spikes and tie off, then what? Your guys can't swim, even without heavy iron, and you are still 20ft away, and your guys will be exposed trying to monkey branch across.
>>65275581Kek, never saw this edit>explain WTF is going on with these spikes and WTF they supposed to do against ships or WTF.The spikes are from a historicist painting from the 1880s about the Siege of La Rochelle of 1627/28.La Rochelle being a well fortified huguenot harbor town meant that for a successful siege extensive siegeworks were necessary. To prevent reinforcement by sea the french built several forts that covered the approach to the city but most famously also a fortified sea wall/dike to physically stop ships from passing into the harbor of La Rochelle. Pic rel is an interpretation of the sea wall from 1740.
>Oui must blockade le harbeur!>Do oui bring le ships?>Non! Oui build le wooden wall over le water>But why?>Le Cardinale c'est arrive and he wants to farm l'aura later
>>65275618The best picture actually from the 17th century (which depicts the sea wall in any amount of detail) is this one - which itself is a single tile from a larger drawing made by Jacques Callot. As you can see there are no spikes present here.
>>65275623>no spikes visibleSo what are these then?
>>65275640Stakes.
>>65275612>IMO likely they made the spike YUGE like it was fighting a massive monster.>he doesn't know about the Kraken of La Rochelle
>>65275600um, actually...
>>65275581>try disembark>can't because spikes are blocking the harbor>if you get too close the mast(s) get stuck in the spikes and breaks off (mobility kill of the era)this is 100% guesswork so don't quote me on that
