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It was Alexei's first time seeing barrels lined up side by side and pointed in the same direction. But... even so, how useful could it really be?
Just hauling it required a horse, a small squad of soldiers, or a Banshee. Loading and aiming it on the battlefield would take up plenty of manpower too. Wouldn't those men achieve more if they were using rifled muskets instead?
Alexei frowned inwardly. He did not quite understand why his lord had created this thing. Rifled muskets were extremely powerful weapons. According to Theus, they were generations ahead of flintlocks. At a time like this, they should be designing tactics around advanced rifled muskets and pushing the weapon's advantages to the limit.
Alexei cast a distrustful glance at the so-called Gatling gun. Could this thing really be more useful than a rifled musket?
Theus paused for a few seconds, then clapped his hands with a delighted look. "Perfect. Fishmen are gathering in the south. I hear there are quite a few arm monsters this time."
Arm monsters had always been a thorn in Alexei's side. They moved too quickly, making the range advantage of rifled muskets far less significant. Mines could deal with them, but mines...
The mines Theus had produced were still only semi-finished products. If Nini made the fuses, they could indeed detonate reliably. But Nini could just charge in with a blade and cut down the monsters herself, and she might not be any less efficient than using mines.
And without using Nini's improved Sea Serpent spell as a fuse, the odds of a successful detonation were truly a little too low.
That made mines highly dependent on luck and rather unreliable.
More importantly, if one failed to detonate,