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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Haltherrion" data-source="post: 5377361" data-attributes="member: 18253">Early firearms were not very big or easy to move. By the mid-1400s they were affecting castle design. But even so, in most FRPs with gunpowder, has the gunpowder weapon only been around for 300 years? Are you saying such weapons won't affect fortification design? Do you think it won't affect forts to the point where they don't really look like what folks think of as castles? I think the historical record is pretty clear that it does. Star forts started evolving by the 1450s or so. That's actually pretty close to when cannons got big enough to damage walls effectively.</blockquote>