Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
If Khem is still a major power, we could get our influx of money from them right?
Ymaryn Successor Quest (Paths of Civ AU)
- Location
- The Deep Blue Sea
Potentially. Especially if we point out that, gee, it sure would be easier to trade with them if those pesky Hellas weren't strangling our sea trade!
Significantly harder. Gunpowder doesn't explode in a way that makes good blasting charges, you need dynamite or better, which flash ignites the whole thing
[X] Plan Kushy Math and Khem
- Pronouns
- he
[X] Plan Kushy Math and Khem
- Location
- Hell
[X] Plan Kushy Math and Khem
The half exiles system has also been a problem for millennium, our "solution" to our lack of slaves creating something similar to the Burakumin in Japan, who thanks to Purity and our taboo of the dead, work similar jobs.
Even our Cosmopolitan Acceptance causes problems. Our society is very weird and immigrants have trouble adapting to the new languages and different values, leaving them easy prey for abuse.
All of that is not to say we do not try to help, raising the wages of all half-exiles to standard before the war in Forhuch, reaching out to isolated communities within our borders, opening doors to the lower castes to better paying jobs, but opportunities are few and far in between considering the scale we work at and the time period the game is played.
Oh and probably not relevant anymore but
Yeah, there was a reason Divine Glorious Elite was disliked by many. It gave them a lot of power in return.
The half exiles system has also been a problem for millennium, our "solution" to our lack of slaves creating something similar to the Burakumin in Japan, who thanks to Purity and our taboo of the dead, work similar jobs.
Even our Cosmopolitan Acceptance causes problems. Our society is very weird and immigrants have trouble adapting to the new languages and different values, leaving them easy prey for abuse.
All of that is not to say we do not try to help, raising the wages of all half-exiles to standard before the war in Forhuch, reaching out to isolated communities within our borders, opening doors to the lower castes to better paying jobs, but opportunities are few and far in between considering the scale we work at and the time period the game is played.
Oh and probably not relevant anymore but
There we go
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
I forgot what setting we are currently in timeline wise?
We are probably past classical era, and more like the medieval period with some stagnation technologically.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
Me: Do you know how little that narrows it down?
We are about 1200 to 1300 with bigger states and less military tech like playemail due to the Pax Yamar lowering the amount of war.Me: Do you know how little that narrows it down?
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
Did some googling, and this is about the same time the Crusades are happening. For military tech, we did adopt gunpowder weapons, probably no guns yet since they were invented by the west but grenades and bombs seem to be the main way it is used with Crossbows being the main means of ranged combat.
Eh, we're at the level of bombards. Man portable guns required either a cavalier attitude to death and maiming amongst the users or a lot better metallurgy.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
Yeah, we need a tech list of what we have available. Bombards are huge cannons right?
Huge low velocity canons. They lob big rock or metal balls.
Bombards are essentially catapults++. Crossbows are likely in the process of being replaced by primitive guns, essentially tiny canons on sticks.
Eh, our culverins propably aren't good enough to replace crossbows. They offer shock value and have decent stopping power, but aren't otherwise superior. Considering that our enemies include highly mobile nomads, we aren't likely to replace lighter weapons with heaver firearms in the foreseeable future.
Bombards are essentially cauldrons packed with powder, shot loaded on top and then ignited to launch.
Early bombards were often incredibly inaccurate and dangerous owing to cumulative metal fatigue, necessitating the whole thing be replaced frequently or risk sudden explosive failures. However, they brought a lot more power and rate of fire than catapults, while using less space, granting tactical flexibility.
Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
Aren't Culverins light, horse drawn cannons? I recognize the name from Age of Empire3
Culverin - Wikipedia
Basically very early musket before we settled on the shoulder stock design. They did scale up to being small canons, but the hand Culverins is the archtypical concept.
The advantage over crossbows was cost, power, and ease of training. The downside was they had worse accuracy than a smoothbore musket.
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Warmach1ne32
Machine of War and Quests
- Location
- Indonesia
Do we have that?
No idea and likely below the level of abstraction. The difference between a bombard and large Culverin is fairly academic.
The thing is that the techs all have large slow moveing bullets that use mass to do damage. Muskets and Canon use smaller shot fired faster due to better metallurgy and methods for making barrels that can survive the pressures.
That advancement pattern can continued basically into modern times with bullets getting smaller and faster with higher and higher gas pressures.
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