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larsdangly · 11-16-2019, 08:38 AM

By the way, casual internet research suggests wheel locks were invented about 1515, and the simplest flint locks around 1540, which makes them para-contemporaneous with the invention of the rapier, the era of widely distributed 'proper' plate armor in Europe (i.e., what Fine Plate is probably meant to represent), and the Sengoku era in Japan (roughly what people have in mind for samurai and ninja sorts of characters). So, I don't think there is any tech-level argument against any of the quick-ready black powder guns in TFT.

11-16-2019, 08:38 AM	#3
larsdangly Join Date: Dec 2017	Re: Arquebus as wheellock By the way, casual internet research suggests wheel locks were invented about 1515, and the simplest flint locks around 1540, which makes them para-contemporaneous with the invention of the rapier, the era of widely distributed 'proper' plate armor in Europe (i.e., what Fine Plate is probably meant to represent), and the Sengoku era in Japan (roughly what people have in mind for samurai and ninja sorts of characters). So, I don't think there is any tech-level argument against any of the quick-ready black powder guns in TFT.