#petard

Tired of weapon lists with pages and pages of interesting options, then only ever using the one with the best stats? Humblebird's Modest Armory is a toolset that allows you to come up with all sorts of historical and fanciful swords, polearms, guns, and other pre-industrial weapons. Just roll the dice and in a few seconds you'll have come up with a weapon that occupies its own little niche.

Generate weapons for character and world building:

Iconic weapons for important characters

Standard issue for an army

Flavor for ceremonial guards and bandit gangs

Artifacts of power and legitimacy

Just an easy way to pick a random weapon

Contains a cover page, 1 page of tables, 4 pages of glossary and mechanical information, and 3 pages of annotated example weapons.

Sergeant John Solomon, a tank driver with 222nd Assault Squadron, Royal Engineers, 79th Armoured Division, describes the effects of a 40lb Petard bomb fired from a Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers or AVRE. 

An AVRE’s petard mortar with 290mm bomb (source)

The AVRE was based on the Churchill tank but instead of a main gun like a 75mm or a 6pdr it has a 290mm petard spigot mortar, similar to that of the PIAT, which fired a large petard bomb, often nicknamed a ‘flying dustbin’ by troops because of its shape.

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