The video is fun, but the military tactic it uses is called "the hammer and the anvil" and it's a horrible tactic. If you fail to hit your enemy, you subject your friendly forces to friendly fire.
My CO tried this tactic in training (blanks), and subsequently was let go. That's how bad this tactic is.
Well they're pirates, not military strategists, so that actually makes it more convincing that this would happen. Unless we're worried about military officers getting their tactics from silly Disney pirate movies, I think its ok to let this slide. Plus it looks cool.
Sorry, but his is just ignorance as to the state of piracy.
Pirates were at the top of their game in naval tactics. They didn't have a military to back them up, and they often came out of the military where they were accomplished members.
Movie pirates were dumb lumbering drunks that were caricatures of the bogyman.
Just like vikings. They bathed daily, took great care in hygiene, wrote on everything, and were the first society where a poet could live off their writings alone.
Movie vikings were nothing but bloodthirsty brutes that somehow accidentally formed a society.
Stop living in the movies. No pirate would ever attempt this. Even a slightly competent pirate would angle their ships such that the cannon shot would fall in front of the other friendly ship.
While I agree with the other people saying that this is just a Disney fantasy movie with pirates so we can let this slide, I sure do appreciate some historical reasoning about why this scene wouldn't have work in an actual scenario
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u/edwbuck 12h ago edited 11h ago
The video is fun, but the military tactic it uses is called "the hammer and the anvil" and it's a horrible tactic. If you fail to hit your enemy, you subject your friendly forces to friendly fire.
My CO tried this tactic in training (blanks), and subsequently was let go. That's how bad this tactic is.