In the academic pursuit of understanding military history, one of the biggest issues we have ever had is truly understanding how historical battles play out in the battlefield. We have testimony of many of these, but we don’t really have detailed enough information or confirmation as to how it all really goes down.
There have been many tries at simulating historical combat: from historical reenacment, to more recent studies such as the revival of lost martial arts, such as Historical European Martial Arts. These taught us a lot about things such as the logistics and combat tactics and techniques, but we can’t really understand how the soldiers felt during battle, and how morale could affect their performance, as the looming threat of death is never present.
Here, at Harvard University, we are proud to present our solution to this problem: Fluffy Combat Simulation Systems, also known as FCSS.
We have have managed to create a device that allows us to roughly simulate lethal, napoleonic line warfare by using fluffies as infantry. It is still a rough prototype however, and we plan to eventually develop artillery and cavalry.
The current Musket model consists of a harness with a .22lr gun mounted by the fluffy’s skull, aimed roughly at wherever the fluffy is looking at. The gun has a magazine mounted at the back, with up to 60 rounds of capacity. The electronics are configured as to make the gun only be able to shoot at randomized time intervals between 20 and 30 seconds long at random, to simulate a musket’s firing rate.
A fully loaded Musket model will only weigh 300 grams when fully loaded. This may be too heavy for fluffy phenotypes that are not earthies, so pegasi or unicorns may be sluggish when wearing it, or end up getting hurt before battle even starts.
Our next plan is to create an Infantry Officer model. We are yet to finalize it, but it will most likely be used exclusively on smarties rather than average fluffies.
We plan on eventually developping the FCSS enough to the point army cadets can use them instead of wargames for their training, possibly resulting on supperior officer training and grasp over tactics.
This project has been funded directly by the US Military for the purpose of studying military theory, and is also a top secret military project. Those who disseminate this information without permission will be tried under Martial Law, and may be punished by execution.