Gatling Gun
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| Gatling Gun | |
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| First Appearance | The WarChiefs |
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| Artillery | |
| Cost | 100 Wood 300 Coin |
| Age Available | Revolution |
| Base Hit Points | 150 |
| Pop. Use | 4 |
| Speed | 4 (Limber) 1.6 (Bombard) |
| LOS | 26 |
| Resists | 75% vs. Ranged |
| Siege Damage | 30 |
| Siege Multipliers | x0.5 vs. Artillery x0.5 vs. Cavalry x0.75 vs. Buildings x0.5 vs. Ship x0.5 vs. Light Infantry x0.5 vs. Arrow Knight |
| Siege Range | 24 |
| AoE | 2 |
| R.O.F. | 4.0 (6 shots) |
The Gatling Gun is a special artillery unit available to all European Civilizations featured in Age of Empires III: The WarChiefs.
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Overview
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The Gatling Gun is unusual compared to the other artillery pieces in the game, with the exception of the organ gun; it is the precursor to modern-day machine guns and fires projectiles at a rapid rate, which is useful in killing enemy infantry units at a brisk pace. The Gatling Gun becomes available to players if they choose to Revolt from their European civilization in the Industrial Age. While devastating against infantry they are less effective against cavalry and buildings, doing reduced damage against them. However due to their high rate of fire they can still do good damage against them if in groups. It is inferior to the Organ Gun in multipliers, attack, range, Line of Sight, upgrades and age, but is available to every civilization.
TriviaEdit
- It uses the same icon as the Organ Gun.
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HistoryEdit
The Gatling gun is one of the best known early rapid-fire weapons and a forerunner of the modern machine gun. Invented by Richard Gatling, it is known for its use by the Union forces during the American Civil War in the 1860s, which was the first time it was employed in combat. Later it was used in the assault on San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War.
The Gatling gun's operation centered on a cyclic multi-barrel design which facilitated cooling and synchronized the firing/reloading sequence. Each barrel fired a single shot when it reached a certain point in the cycle, after which it ejected the spent cartridge, loaded a new round, and in the process, cooled down somewhat. This configuration allowed higher rates of fire to be achieved without the barrel overheating.
