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Originally Posted by Rick_Smith
Hi PirateJohn.
In that case, you wouldn't mind fighting 4 arquebusiers rather than 2 plus 2 crossbowmen in this room? (Whistles innocently.)
My compromise of 'primitive rifling' I am not entirely happy with. But those weapons fired spherical balls (which are badly effected by turbulence) and they often were off round, so the bullets would not leave the barrel straight. I suspect that your expert marksman went to extraordinary effort to find perfectly spherical balls which were a tight fit to the barrel.
Now that is possible for TFT Gunners to do, but is not what the typical soldier in those days (who likely was casting his own bullets in a bullet mold) was doing.
Warm regards, Rick
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During a siege, Benvenuto Cellini purportedly shot the general leading the assault on the front gate of the city from a tower over 80 yards away with a hackbutt, killing him instantly. Luck or skill? And rifling goes back to the 1760s or even earlier.