What The Heck ??

Rick · 15th July 2017, 08:27 PM

Any German speakers here?

This was the picture tag.
Sturmkolben fur Brandsatz

I see you have identified it in my absence.

Marcus den toom · 15th July 2017, 08:46 PM

Loosly translated it is a war mace/gun with pitch/sulpher mixture..

Explosive, deadly.. it reused medieval gothic barrels. I have a few in my collection, only 6cm long with a 9mm bore.

fernando · 15th July 2017, 09:15 PM

Marcus is obviously right; he still has a fresh memory, while mine has already reached the Alzheimer status.
So this is not for throwing solid shot but incendary stuff; the tubes vent holes are turned into the central wooden bore where their ignition may be obatined in a sequence. The tubes are in principle pieces of disused musket barrels.

(Die Macht des Feuers. Pages 143 & 307).

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fernando · 15th July 2017, 09:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Rick

Any German speakers here?

This was the picture tag.
Sturmkolben fur Brandsatz

A rather idiomaticc expression, meaning sort of Incendiary compound storm piston
... As if i knew any german at all

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corrado26 · 16th July 2017, 09:09 AM

"Sturmkolben fur Brandsatz"

"Sturm" in this expression has nothing to do with a storm or strong winds, but with "Attack"

"Kolben" here stands for a bundle of barrels, so the English translation should be "attackbundle"
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fernando · 16th July 2017, 01:47 PM

Thsnk you for the right translation, Corrado.
This is what happens when we resource translation egines. I was confident that the one i got was about right as, storm/ing (in english) also means invading, assaulting, atacking, as i obviously din't mean 'storm' as a weather condition

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Quote:"The general decided not to storm the fortress".
As for Kolben i found no other traslation than that of 'piston', as obviously not for a motorcar engine component

. The authors of "Die Macht des Feuer", a bilingual work, decided to tag "Sturmkolben" as "Trunk", perhaps due to an admitable problematic translation.
Maybe this is why Michl admited in his post #27 that he would be glad to know the English equivalent for this so called (in german) "Sturmkolben" or "Igel" (hedgehog).
But of course you are German speaking and surely know what you talk about.
Here is a functional replica of theses things 'storming a castle', a test developed by VesteCoburg.

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15th July 2017, 09:15 PM	#3
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Marcus is obviously right; he still has a fresh memory, while mine has already reached the Alzheimer status. So this is not for throwing solid shot but incendary stuff; the tubes vent holes are turned into the central wooden bore where their ignition may be obatined in a sequence. The tubes are in principle pieces of disused musket barrels. (Die Macht des Feuers. Pages 143 & 307). . Last edited by fernando; 15th July 2017 at 10:31 PM.

16th July 2017, 01:47 PM	#6
fernando (deceased) Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Portugal Posts: 9,694	Thsnk you for the right translation, Corrado. This is what happens when we resource translation egines. I was confident that the one i got was about right as, storm/ing (in english) also means invading, assaulting, atacking, as i obviously din't mean 'storm' as a weather condition . Quote:"The general decided not to storm the fortress". As for Kolben i found no other traslation than that of 'piston', as obviously not for a motorcar engine component . The authors of "Die Macht des Feuer", a bilingual work, decided to tag "Sturmkolben" as "Trunk", perhaps due to an admitable problematic translation. Maybe this is why Michl admited in his post #27 that he would be glad to know the English equivalent for this so called (in german) "Sturmkolben" or "Igel" (hedgehog). But of course you are German speaking and surely know what you talk about. Here is a functional replica of theses things 'storming a castle', a test developed by VesteCoburg. . Attached Images

15th July 2017, 08:27 PM	#1
Rick Vikingsword Staff Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 6,376	Any German speakers here? This was the picture tag. Sturmkolben fur Brandsatz I see you have identified it in my absence.

15th July 2017, 08:46 PM	#2
Marcus den toom Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: Netherlands Posts: 541	Loosly translated it is a war mace/gun with pitch/sulpher mixture.. Explosive, deadly.. it reused medieval gothic barrels. I have a few in my collection, only 6cm long with a 9mm bore.

16th July 2017, 09:09 AM	#5
corrado26 Member Join Date: Dec 2014 Location: Black Forest, Germany Posts: 1,242	"Sturmkolben fur Brandsatz" "Sturm" in this expression has nothing to do with a storm or strong winds, but with "Attack" "Kolben" here stands for a bundle of barrels, so the English translation should be "attackbundle" corrado26