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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 2304331" data-attributes="member: 6957">A few other things about massed battles with guns:Smoke. Even a few dozen black powder weapons can produce an enormous amount of stinking smoke, obscuring vision. If you are in a valley (as many battles were) then it was possible to have LOS dropped to fewer than 30 feet after a while.The fear effect does not happen with any trained troops, even cavalry trained horses become used to the sound. Once guns become common anybody with warrior or fighter levels would be immune to any such result.The simplist way to protect against fireballs etc. is simply to have secure boxes for the ammunition that are kept closed except when needed. By the 16th century this is already the case for most armies, fire arrows and even sparks from your own cannon can set powder off. If the powder box is kept closed then a fireball will have to destroy the box before setting off the powder. If you feel special then have magic boxes protecting the contents from fire, or have a cleric or wizard cast protection from elements or the like on the containers before the battle. But mostly just good strong boxes will do the trick.As for non battle changes to society:The blunderbuss... this is a weapon that changed hunting forever, being the direct ancestor of the shotgun. While useable as a weapon it was intended and used primarily for hunting birds, and allowed a single hunter to kill a goodly portion of a flock with a single shot.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

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