With any luck, by this point, plague and fire will have broken out widely and the city will tear itself apart.The world-wide gunship battle began and it will not pass without the participation of "steel birds". They could do this for several months / years, ratcheting up the paranoia, and then when the Empire is already weak, launch their airstrike, kill the Emperor and half the Senate, set the whole city on fire with targeted incendiary strikes, and then let fear and paranoia do the rest. In this way, they could promote starvation in Rome and distrust between Rome and its allies, all without the Romans suspecting a thing. They won't know what's going on and will panic.įurther, the Blackhawk crew could initially ignore Rome directly, and instead attack the bread shipments to Rome from Egypt. People aren't gonna pass it off as an enemy weapon when nobody's even been able to get a good look at it. People hear a sound that wakes all of Rome in the middle of the night, see something flying they can't see slaughter people who are hiding in the darkness and set the whole city aflame? There is gonna be widespread panic.
#Copter vs tank ez plus#
It can destroy many Senators' houses, plus the Imperial Palace, and start fires all over the infamously flammable city with the aforementioned incendiary tracers and rockets - and if they play their cards right, the fire can do a lot more damage than the attack itself ever would. Attacking at night, with Romans in their beds, they won't see the machine - they'll hear the whap-whap-whap of its propeller blades, and see the horrific red stream of its tracer shot and rockets as it levels buildings and slaughters people who run (night vision tech is strong).
It has the advantage of spotlights, and perhaps inertial guidance if it was configured rightly. One thing that a lot of people aren't thinking - the heli could attack at night. I would assume that Rome could find out about the island and muster an attack before it collapses. In total, it would take an enormous time for the Black Hawk to actually cause meaningful damage to an Empire the size of Rome. According to a source I googled, the Helicopter requires 15- 20 hours of maintenance for every 40 hours of services - so the Heli is down about 1/3 days. So the crew would have to fly to the target, attack it, return, rearm, refuel etc. Rome was a large city, and one attack by one Helicopter is not going to destroy it. So the Helicopter could cause massive damage but could not erase the Roman Empire by itself from its base.Īlso, doing the damage will take a lot of time. The Roman Empire at the height of its power had an area of about 5 million square km, which means the Black Hawk can cover at most 3.1 million square km, and in practice, that is not possible, since there are large areas of water with no inhabitants. Even if we are generous and assume our Black Hawk can travel twice the distance with a meaningful weapons loadout, that gives only about 1000km range. There are countless variants of the Black Hawk, but wiki gives 320 miles or about 500 km as the combat range.
There is a limiting factor to the terror the Heli can cause, and that is its range.
And the wizard assures them, that their timeline will remain the same because completing this task would just create an alternate timeline separate from their own which he needs for his plans.Īre the Romans at their peak of power in ancient times not much to say.ĭo they have anything that can stop an armed blackhawk chopper? The wizard tasks the men with basically genociding Rome in order to return to their own time. Spare parts, fuel, tools, ammo, food, water, guns for hunting, sea water purification system, & whatever else. A time wizard teleports the following to a uncharted 10x10 mile island off the coast of Europe at the point in time when ancient Rome was at its most powerful:Ī blackhawk helicopter armed with 2 20mm cannons, rockets, and a door mounted mini gunĪ barracks that the men sleep in and serves as a living quarters, mess hall etc.īig ass warehouse filled with everything that you'd need to maintain and support the men, and blackbird for years.
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