Low Tech cannons mortars and shells

[Rupert]

Originally Posted by Polydamas

Hand mortars were a thing (with no stats in GURPS Low Tech!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_mortar but as long as the fuse had to be lit by hand there were practical problems shooting shell from a long-barrelled, small-bore gun.

Early gunpowder artillery is really complicated and could easily be a booklet by itself. Even GURPS High Tech has one gun (!) to represent all traditional muzzle-loading cannon of the 18th and 19th centuries.

It also has one gun for 'colonial adventures', one gun for WWI artillery, one gun for WWII and Cold War artillery and it's not the gun that I, from a Commonwealth country would consider iconic of WWII (the 25-pounder), nor the most common Cold War gun (the Soviet 122mm D-30), so it's not as if HT is especially slighting any given period.