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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 9474059" data-attributes="member: 20564">Firearms as game changers?  Okay, none of your list applies.  For the first hundred years of firearms, everything you said is just wrong.  They had no overwhelming advantage.  Rifling wasn't even discovered in those first 100 years.  They were slower and less accurate.Now, during that early period cannons were a game changer.  But handheld weapons lagged far behind, taking centuries after gunpowder use in weapons before they were generally better than other weapons.</blockquote>