What are the disadvantages of gun platform castles?

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.