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Advantages: Mass murder & killing at long range on scales never before seen. 30000 Men killed on one day alone at the Battle of the Sonne. It stopped infantry troops to have to duck for cover where they used to line up in rows to fire, that would no longer work in the world of machine guns hence trenches were made to protect the soldiers and hold the lines.
The disadvantages are that they often over heated and were heavy and hard to move. You did not just pick one up alone and move it locale to locale and fire it. It took a team to do it. The Germans probably had one of the best of the machine guns of the time and the French probably the worst one. They often were clogged up with dirt and malfunctioned because of it or as I said barrels over heated due to too much firing at once.
The Browning automatic was a powerful automatic but held few rounds over all. The Tommy gun was good for close combat but it used a small .45 caliber round.
I hope this helps some.
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Disadvantages:
1. Less easy to defend that a huge castle and so more were taken over during wars.
2. Hard to remove the Cannon which could be captured by the enemy.
3. Didn’t show power or prestige in the same way as previous castles.
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What is the gun platform castles made out of?
stone
What are the advantages of the gun platform castles?
it had canons
What are the similarities between concentric and gun platform castles?
They are both made of stone!!
What is a gun platform castle?
a gun platform castle is a castle with a gun platform.
How were Japanese castles different from English castles defence?
English castles have gun/bow and arrow slits
What is a gun platform?
it is a platform on a castle
What are the disadvantages of castles made out of wood?
There can set it on fire!
What are the disadvantages of the late medieval castles?
they were expensive to build
What are the advantages and disadvantages of a concentric castle?
it was more safer and secure than the other castles.
What are the advantages and disadvantages of concentric castles?
The strengths and advantages of concentric castles were numerous!What were the Weaknesses and Disadvantages of Concentric Castles?The weaknesses and disadvantages of concentric castles were as follows:Concentric Castles were extremely expensive to buildThe loss of a Concentric castle would have been disastrous for the ownerThey required vast man power and labour resourcesA huge variety of skills were required to build Concentric castlesA Concentric Castle could take several years to completeSiege Warfare was applied when trying to take a concentric castle - Castle walls could fall due to bombardment from Siege Engines such as the ballista, the mangonel, and the trebuchetThe Welsh Castles of Edward I were built with direct access to the sea fresh supplies could be delivered to the castle and the defenders could not be starved into submissionConcentric Castles built inland ran the risk of being starved into submission
Explain why castles were built defended attacked and why they became obsolete.?
Gun powder made castles useless. The first castles were mott and bailey designs. This means they were made of wooden posts on hills with the wooden walls surrounding an open area that contained stables, a few huts, the main castle hall. There are a lot of disadvantages to wood because it can be set on fire, the weather rots wood, and it can be damaged with tools. The result was to make castles stronger by using stone. Instead of tearing down the wooden walls they made a facade in front of them and then filled in the space between the stone and wood with the debris of the walls. So, at a distance it looked like one solid wall and castle. When gun power was invented and came to Europe the days of castles was numbered. A hole could be blown into a wall with a cannonball, so the castles no longer provided protection to the people of the castle.
What are the disadvantages of infiniband?
1)complex in design 2)few platform supports
