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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elder-Basilisk" data-source="post: 2507034" data-attributes="member: 3146">That rather depends upon what you think is very long and what you consider a canon. There was quite a long period of time between the first canons being deployed in European warfare (under Edmund the Black Prince IIRC) and the advent of effective small firearms on the battlefield. That said, there wasn't nearly so long between the effective deployment of naval cannons and the large scale use of small arms on the battlefield. IIRC, the Mary Rose was one of the earlier ships to use canons as a primary naval weapon and that was during the reign of Henry VIII. (End of the 15th/beginning of the 16th century). By the end of the 16th century, and the beginning of the 17th century, gunpowder weapons were being deployed in large scale and to great effect on the battlefield such that the magnificent Greenwich full plate of Henry VIII's day had shrunk to the buff coat and cuirass of kind James. To tell the truth, the transition probably happened a good deal before that since Sir Francis Drake and Cortez etc predate King James by about half a century. So you're probably looking at, at most, 50 years between the effective deployment of cannons and the large scale use of personal firearms.So, while you could have naval canons in Greyhawk if you wanted, if you wanted to remain historically accurate, you'd probably have to depict the transition to guns and gunpowder centric land battlefield in the course of your game.</blockquote>

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