@Jello_Raptor We're going to say that your firelog macerators are typically MUCH smaller than their maximum load. Their minimum safe distance is measured in tens of feet, not hundreds. This makes way more sense given the role these things are supposed to play in your team's combat load, and makes this part of Roomba's plan work. If you want to explicitly make some with maximum load, you can.
Hmm, fair enough. But that's less "turn the sky into fire and put the fear of god into the enemy" and more "big thunderous fireball right in your face".
The statement I'd want to make is "Not only could we kill you and your entrie team, but we could take out small villages with a single explosive. We've also got enough that we are willing to waste a few just to scare and disorient you. Better hope we don't decide to aim lower next time."
I do think we'd have a mix of smaller load macerators and a few big ones prepared. Variety in a loadout is important for tactical flexibility.
@Roomba: The bigger ones do require the use of a rod or atlatl like device to get the neccesary height. I don't anticipate any issues since Keiko and noburi have seen us testing these and a few practice tosses should be enough to ensure Keiko gets the angle right.
However, there is a chance that using the full size ones might make us a geopolitical threat, rather than chuunin exam contestants. I'd want to make sure that such a use is approved by Jiraiya.
I'm thinking medium size might be the way to go for making a big intimidating statement.
It's up to you whether you want to use them.
@eaglejarl: Would you be okay with us having a few medium scale ones? Fireballs 80-100 feet large, with a medium consequences range between 150-200 ft out, and safe distance around 250-300 ft?
Mind, those new estimates are because I realized that the tables and things I used assume shrapnel is the main danger.
Macerators don't have shrapnel, and trade the usual explosive outward force for a giant fireball and much longer lasting pressure fronts. You don't have the shrapnel carrying momentum super far, so the danger would fall off more rapidly.
I also think macerator fuel air bombs would be weird even compared to normal fuel air bombs. Those explode outwards from a single ignition point, with a blast front pushing the fireball into more fuel and picking up speed that way.
Ours would have ignition points everywhere at once, because of all the distributed fragments of burning ember. Meaning lots of tiny blast fronts that don't get to accelerate super far before colliding with each other.
I suspect this means that heat output would be a bit larger, but both the initial outwards shockwave, and the inrush of air afterwards would be weaker than the corresponding single ignition explosive. Again, meaning that you could have the wall of fire that much closer to the enemy while still keeping them in medium consequences range.
I really want as much of our enemies field of view to be a gigantic flaming deathball, before it burns itself out in an instant, and the wind tries to rip them into the cloud of smoke that's left where the fireball used to be.
Basically, I want to give our enemies thousand yard stare points, reasons to go to therapy, and the knowledge that they're only still alive because of mercy and geopolitics.
@Roomba: Though, the smoke would put our enemies into panic mode. I'd like to be careful how we use that, since it means they are more likely to drop into an instinctual fight or flight mode where they are too distraught to pull their punches.
