Grade 8 Weapon size: Ramming with a large ship

On November 11th this year I wrote about Speedbowling and how I thought it should be:

Speedbowling was born. First I heard of that title I was hoping to see 10 other ships in a triangle and one pilot crashing into that group as hard as possible, but that's not what it is.

Well it seems the great Captain Flint picked up on that. He is producing a series explaining the different weapons in Elite and how to engineer them for different effect. It seems he is finally getting to my favorite weapon: The ship itself. Obviously ramming the opponent as hard as possible is also delivering quite a bit of damage (to both participants of the fight).

But for science you need to try in a controlled environment. There are many big communities in Elite, but if you are looking for as many volunteers as possible to play sitting duck in a small spaceship being run over by a fully armored imperial warship the Buur Pit is the place to go. While many communities might be reluctant to the idea of being mass-killed repeatedly for science the most discussed question among the Buurboons was "what color should the my sacrificed ship have for you to get the best video footage?"

The standard paintjob on a sidewinder fits the job as a bowling pin nicely, I think

So this weekend we all lined up our ships to get repeatedly rammed - sure I had to capture some footage of that. So here is a bit of video:

It was great fun - and many thanks to all participants, that showed no sign of being tired, no matter how often they had to rebuy their ships and re-align. Looking forward to the report on this very special weapon at Flintlock Engineering - if this is your kind of thing, make sure to subscribe to his channel. Even if you do not care about the content, he has a great radio voice.