Energy Weapons VS Ballistic Weapons

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

By lasers seeing the battlefield, i meant as standard small arms. They'd be pretty hard to maintain in working order, with all the essential and fragile parts, compared with a normal asssualt rifle.

I wonder if there were Message Boards during the Mediaval times towards the Age of Reason, would some people say "sure, they have these ship cannons - but will they ever have something to replace a good bow or sword? I mean, these things are either big and clunky or highly explosive with fragile mechanics.

 

[Eltharon]

Probably

 

[hobgoblin]

hell, breach loading cannons where considerd more or less insane at one time iirc.
but that was before they worked out all the issues. now its standard on all warships, even tho one is more and more moving to missiles for ship to ship engagements...