Wheellocks and Flintlocks

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Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

It's probably below the Gurps threshold of granularity but smaller pieces of a mechanism have fewer HP.

The mechanism yes, but I don't think that should necessarily impact the HP of the weapon as a whole even ignoring granularity issues.

Originally Posted by Fred Brackin

You never gain status when your pistol malfunctions. You just look stupid. The wealthy were most of the early adopters of flintlock technology. The earliest "true" flintlock (1613) still in existence and with unquestionable provenance is from the collection of Louis XIII, King of France and patron to _those_ Musketeers.

Like I said, breaking is a problem. If wheellocks would ideally have a lower HT score then yes, they have a serious problem as status weapons without a change in how lock technologies developed.