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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tzarevitch" data-source="post: 2278016" data-attributes="member: 1792">Actually that is not quite true. Modern metal-cartridge ammo weapons ARE simple to use. Basically you load the shell and fire (with slight variations depending on the weapon). Percussion-cap and earlier weapons are actually quite hard to use. It is easy to fire them but they are extremely hard to reload if you aren't trained to do it. You can't just pick one up sight unseen and load and fire it. If you don't know what you are doing, it won't fire or you will injure yourself when it backfires. Even trained personnel of the time had difficulty with the loading process because it is rather complex. Watch the History Channel. They demonstrate Civil War era and earlier firearms all the time. A couple of episodes had modern military personnel who are trained in firearms use trying to load Civil War rifles for the first time and they were having a devil of a time. Even at Gettysburg rifles were found with multiple bullets jammed into the barrels because in the chaos of the fighting the soldiers couldn't get the loading drill performed properly, and these were TRAINED soldiers. I treated archaic firearms as simple weapons for the purposes of firing them, but they required a feat to properly reload them. That feat (Archaic Firearms Use) was treated as a Martial Weapon feat (i.e. any class with Martial Weapon proficiency was assumed to have the feat). I treated Metal-cartridge weapons as simple weapons that didn't require a second feat to reload. Machine guns, flamethrowers, light mortars and grenade launchers and other exotica were exotic weapons. Tzarevitch</blockquote>

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