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"Little Zoya" (WIP 3) by ACBradley

"Little Zoya" (WIP 3)

ACBradley

WIP of the Reformation War-era Aludran railroad gun Kazit Zoya ("Little Zoya"), mentioned here. This 23-inch supergun is named after the lead designer's daughter, and was the cannon that breached the outer wall of Lons Fortress in Linthe and one of the battery of guns assembled to destroy the outer wall of Janek after the south-facing 12-inch L/70 anti-siege cannon Stiletto was disabled.

It can be argued that Zoya was actually the inventor of the gun: drawn as an 11-inch piece similar to the railroad gun Lady Rochelle (usually just known as Rochelle), Zoya drew a tiny figure and wrote her name on the blueprint when her mother was out of the design room at their home. After shouting for her daughter, the lead designer paused and took out a set of calipers to measure the gun relative to the little crayon kitty; the result was the cannon that Linthan forces came to fear as "The Empress' Right Hand."

Did some scaling based on the barrel to get the ladders the right size, and Zoya is an absolute leviathan of a gun: the gun carriage is 29'9 tall and 204'1 long, which is actually longer than Schwerer Gustav :o

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    Good lord, bore wear on that thing is going to be a cast-iron bitch to deal with. Serial shells, for sure! Cripes, a standard railway car could probably only carry two, maybe three shells with their propellant charges!