Grasshopper Cannon

==In game==
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Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.	
Cheap replacement for Culverin and Cannon for some underdeveloped factions.
*Strong versus: units, lightly armoured buildings.
*Weak versus: heavy fortifications, ships, artillery.
Prereq: 	Build time 	HP 	LOS 	Attack 	Attack speed 	Movementspeed 	 	
* 	18s 	675 	30 	70 	Rather slow 	44 	 	
Cost 	Cost 	Cost 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
Base 	Ramp 	Pop 	Created from 	Armour 	Weapon range 	Specialty 	 	
: 250;: 160 	: 6;: 3 	2 	Shipyard 	9 	33 	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	 	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.	
*Effectiveness reduces with age.
=== Overall strategy===
While they are clearly weaker if compared to the slower Culverin, Grasshopper Cannons are cheaper and can be built in vast numbers. Useful if used in vast numbers, they suffer from three major defects  - their range is bad, even if compared to a Falconet or Flying Artillery, nor are they are sturdy as a genuine Culverin. In addition, they are more vulnerable, especially if attacked by other artillery units, so it is best to use these units only for attacking buildings but nothing more.
===Unit summary===
*Powerful heavy ship with increased rate of fire, built to attain surface marine superiority.
*Has +1 armour and a few more hitpointsand higher rate of fire compared to Man of War.
====Notes====
To be used in Project 1400 albeit as a mercenary unit.
==History==
Artillery can play a decisive role in deciding a battle or a war. History is littered with armies that were not able to bring artillery to bear on their enemy and lost significant battles. For some enterprising or desperate commanders lacking the punch that a cannon can bring, they improvised and made their artillery out of wood. Using a wooden cannon is employed as a last ditch effort. Manufacturing them takes many hours of labour and due to the shock produced when firing them they would break apart after only a few firings. As artillery became more modernized their lack of range became a glaring drawback.
In the New World Native Americans made wooden cannons for use against settlement fortifications. Settlers also found them useful. Squire Boone (Daniel’s brother) crafted one for the defence of Boonesborough, Kentucky when it was besieged by Native Americans in 1778. This may be the only successful deployment of a wooden cannon but the besieging forces lacked any artillery of their own necessary to achieve victory. The native peoples of South America also employed wooden cannons against their Spanish and Portuguese overlords. As those nations took control of that continent it should be no surprise that the natives and wooden cannons failed.
The Vietnamese also developed wooden cannons against the French in 1862 and they were also employed during the Boshin War in Japan in 1868. Russian Tsar Peter the Great’s pastime was building wooden cannons, though his army had the use of metal cannon. The Bulgarians used cherrywood cannons during the April Uprising of 1876 and wooden cannons were even in use during the 20th century when the Macedonians also employed a cherrywood cannon during the Ilinden Uprising in 1903. Both uprisings opposed the Ottoman Empire and it should be no surprise that both were suppressed.
===References===
*Aged Woods, Wooden Cannons
*John's Military History Page, Three Pounder "Grasshopper"
*SuaSponte.com, Early Rangers