09-29-2016, 01:42 AM | #11 | |||
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Iceland*
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Re: Emerging smokepowder weapons in my fantasy
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Paper cartridges are another matter, in that they decrease the time to reload muzzleloaders amazingly, and they have been adopted with alacrity among the PCs' men. In any case, from a smoothbore, the ball has to be as close to spherical as possible for accuracy. Any deformation of shape, such as wax might be prone to, means that it's not useful at as long a range. Minié and conical bullets haven't been invented yet and might not be for a long time. Until that time, replicating their shape with wax is unlikely to occur to anyone as an experiment worth conducting. Quote:
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Though I don't much worry about point value for NPCs and simply declare that a few days of familiarisation are enough make crossbowmen tolerable at shooting longarms, with a few weeks usually making them perfectly proficient. PCs and their point-valued Allies can spend earned points on Guns in only a few days of they have Crossbow.
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Za uspiekh nashevo beznadiozhnovo diela! Last edited by Icelander; 09-29-2016 at 01:57 AM. |
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