Kalthoff Repeater [TL4]

[Phantasm]

Yes, this gun actually existed! It was a flintlock (occasionally wheel-lock) lever-action repeating black powder gun produced by a single family of gunsmiths from 1630 to around 1670. It is perhaps the only black powder repeating firearm to see use as a military firearm prior to the American Civil War, in service with Denmark from 1657 to 1696.

As a thought to making it available in my heavy-clocktech fantasy setting - though no doubt sold to adventurers and various cavalries rather than any infantry force - and lacking any kind of GURPS 4e Gun Design, I pulled out the GURPS (Classic) Vehicles's weapon design chapter and kit-bashed something together. I used the following switches: conventional smoothbore, low power, short barrel, and manual repeater, with a .40 caliber/10.16mm ball.

TL: 4
Weapon: Kalthoff Repeater Carbine, .40
Damage: 2d pi+
Acc: 2
Range: 90/800
Weight: 8.79/0.09
RoF: 1
Shots: 15 (2i)
ST: 9†
Bulk: -5
Rcl: 4
Cost: $685

Notes:
1. Requires a Ready maneuver between shots fired to work the lever. This Ready maneuver may be removed with a successful Fast-Firing roll.
2. The "(2i)" under Shots is for loading the ball into the tube magazine; it takes 10 seconds to refill the powder reservoir, which holds enough powder for 15 shots.


Reload is a complete guestimate. The Ready between shots comes from the wiki article of working the lever in 1-2 seconds; I figured a single second should suffice for my purposes. I also figured that the Fast-Firing technique (as described in Gun-Fu) should be suitable to make it a "free" action for a single shot, enabling the user to fire every round.


So, thoughts?