Wheellocks and Flintlocks

[Fred Brackin]

Originally Posted by Sindri

Uh, no. No one has come up with something that fits within the granularity of the game. Despite not needing any technical advantages at all faster ignition is totally the sort of thing people will point to as making a technology the correct choice for discerning users who are willing to spare the expense if there aren't other things that make it unsuitable.



If wheellocks don't have a significant downside for the wealthy all that is necessary for their continued presence is for it to be plausible for them to have grown attached to them given the right circumstances.

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Where did faster ignition come in? There's no increase in ignition speed until you get to percussion caps.

I do think wheel-locks have significant disadvantages and it is not at all plausible that they would remain in production for long after flintlocks became available,

Note that if I was a player in this game I might not argue with you more than once about it not making sense but I'd never believe it was true.