What kinds of firearms would people start making [After the End]?

[swordtart]

Originally Posted by Tomsdad

Good points, I think there will also be an issue that I dread to think how heavy a 1,500-2,000lb crossbow would be*! Smooth bores seem to be not only be a better way to penetrate armour but an easier way as well (which would fit the historical record of course).

Guns start at smooth bore and only get better from there even at TL4 (where as we're really hitting at the upper limit for crossbows here, until we get to higher TLs)


*especially when you include what ever mechanism you require to draw the thing.

I agree with the majority of this, but I think cost was a bigger driver than armour penetration. If your soldiers cost less, you can have more of them. Quantity has a quality of its own.