Organ Gun (Age of Empires III)

The Organ Gun or the Ribauldequin is a unique artillery piece for the Portuguese and is also featured in Age of Empires III.

Game Info
The Organ Gun is a 6 barreled artillery unit that can shoot multiple projectiles into a large area making the artillery piece very useful for clearing out many enemy infantry units quickly. But because the Organ Gun fires many missiles into a large area it doesn't have a direct attack which makes it not as useful against the enemy's buildings.

Real Info
The Organ Gun was a medieval volly gun included with many small caliber iron barrels set up parallel on a platform and when fired, made it similar to some machine guns such as the Gatling Gun. The Organ Gun continued to serve in war and was used mostly as an anti-personnel gun

The Organ Guns were well known when they were used by the army of Edward III of England in 1339 in France during the Hundred Years War. Edward's Organ Guns had twelve barrels which fired salvoes of twelve balls. Later on, Milan and several other wealthy and technologically advanced areas used a nine-barreled ribault.

The Organ Guns were also used in the War of the Roses. During the Second Battle of St Albans, Burgundian soldiers under Yorkist control utilized the weapon against the Lancastrian army led by Queen Margaret of Anjou.

Later, the Swiss army was also known to employ organ guns in battle, notably at the Battle of Sempach, even developing early firearms from them.