What.

Okay, I've heard of coating bladed/pointy weapons (wielded or thrown) with shit, archers stabbing their arrows into soil and manure piles, plus punji sticks, but not shit on bullets and shells.

NNescio said:

What.

Okay, I've heard of coating bladed/pointy weapons (wielded or thrown) with shit, archers stabbing their arrows into soil and manure piles, plus punji sticks, but not shit on bullets and shells.

What does that kind of coating do exactly?

firechikara said:

What does that kind of coating do exactly?

Infects the wound. Not useful in the short-term, except for morale purposes, but in the ages before medicine, more people died in warfare of disease than blades.

This takes being shitty admiral to a whole new level.
Well, shitty fleet atleast.

Reminds me of Drifters, they do something similar in

Yeah, the smell is also affects morale against enemy not used to that kind of dirty tactics.

Wouldn't the bullets get sterilized by the propellant's heat ?

Stardom said:

Reminds me of Drifters, they do something similar in

I think this is probably a parody of that scene =3

I'd like to think though that they are coating the shells in Hiei's leftover chocolates. Though they're still breathing so it's really feces. Which might be a mercy compared to the former.

JohnFreeman said:

I'd like to think though that they are coating the shells in Hiei's leftover chocolates. Though they're still breathing so it's really feces. Which might be a mercy compared to the former.

Hiei's biochemical weapons are too virulent to be used, despite what Admiral Lightning might think.

Plus they are a war crime everywhere even to non-signatory parties of the Geneva protocol.

Edit: Waaait... Hiei, curry, shit... *gasp* Ciel!

NNescio said:

What.

Okay, I've heard of coating bladed/pointy weapons (wielded or thrown) with shit, archers stabbing their arrows into soil and manure piles, plus punji sticks, but not shit on bullets and shells.

Because it's my understanding it doesn't really work with modern weapons. The temperatures in the chambers during firing are so hot any sort of bacteria is pretty much incinerated and most poisons are denatured as well, even if they aren't the bullet is going so fast it would be very hard for any sort of loosely adhered powdery or liquid coating not to simply slough off. It would also be terrible for the mechanism in a repeating firearm, crud sticking to bullets is a major cause of jams and fouling of the barrel from the stuff burning off on firing would degrade accuracy, velocity, and if it got bad enough could even cause a blockage resulting in a squib or the like.

Tk3997 said:

Because it's my understanding it doesn't really work with modern weapons. The temperatures in the chambers during firing are so hot any sort of bacteria is pretty much incinerated and most poisons are denatured as well, even if they aren't the bullet is going so fast it would be very hard for any sort of loosely adhered powdery or liquid coating not to simply slough off. It would also be terrible for the mechanism in a repeating firearm, crud sticking to bullets is a major cause of jams and fouling of the barrel from the stuff burning off on firing would degrade accuracy, velocity, and if it got bad enough could even cause a blockage resulting in a squib or the like.

Would it be somewhat practical for an improvised weapon if, say, someone coats the shrapbel (nuts, bolts, nails, etc.) with shit (or a more debilitating toxin) before loading them into a DIY fragmentation shell?

NNescio said:

Would it be somewhat practical for an improvised weapon if, say, someone coats the shrapbel (nuts, bolts, nails, etc.) with shit (or a more debilitating toxin) before loading them into a DIY fragmentation shell?

I wonder if frozen shit can produce shrapnel when blasted.

Darkagma said:

I wonder if frozen shit can produce shrapnel when blasted.

It'll be a shitstorm.

NNescio said:
Would it be somewhat practical for an improvised weapon if, say, someone coats the shrapbel (nuts, bolts, nails, etc.) with shit (or a more debilitating toxin) before loading them into a DIY fragmentation shell?

Same problem as the bullet in the end. Namely why would the liquid or dried up feces actually stay attached to the shrapnel when you set off the bomb? It's just loosely adhering to the metal's surface which has just been struck by a pressure wave a hundreds times stronger then a power-washer... if anything is still attached you're going to need a microscope to find it.

Another factor to consider is that stuffing your bomb full of shit would seem to drastically increase the risk of it being discovered, causally removed, or at the very least actively avoided by people and hence might actually make it LESS effective.

Again most other toxins probably have similiar issues and if your aim is JUST to disperse a toxic substance in a public area a bomb is an overall poor way to do it. The only time it might become useful is if the shrapnel itself is a toxin that's difficult to scatter in other ways, as in the case of a dirty bomb, but even then the scattering results in somewhat dubious lethality unless people linger in the area for a fairly improbable period of time after a BOMB has just gone off.

Overall highly energetic and high temperature explosions are a fairly poor way to try and spread poisons. If they don't outright destroy the toxin they have a marked tendency to scatter it so widely it's effect is reduced to impotence and it's difficult to actually get it into someone's body with any reliability since it getting it to cling to shrapnel or high energy projectiles is nearly impossible.

Tk3997 said:

*Stuff. Lots of scientific stuff.*

That is, until we start going into DU shells. Well, hard to consider them as explosives, but them being pyrophoric and somewhat radioactive, it's gonna do a number on anyone's health within the area of impact. If they survived being in the vicinity of a DU round's point of impact in the first place.

Seika said:

Yeah, the smell is also affects morale against enemy not used to that kind of dirty tactics.

Wouldn't the bullets get sterilized by the propellant's heat ?

The smell is the last thing that you must worry about. In the worst Jails, are used to infect the cuts, coating something sharp is pretty succesful in Jail's fights.

NNescio said:

What.

Okay, I've heard of coating bladed/pointy weapons (wielded or thrown) with shit, archers stabbing their arrows into soil and manure piles, plus punji sticks, but not shit on bullets and shells.

Funny, I heard of hired killers during the Prohibition who rubbed garlic over their bullets to cause infection.