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<blockquote data-quote="Jay Verkuilen" data-source="post: 7776568" data-attributes="member: 6873517"><p>Wound ballistics shows that a 9 mm handgun round has about as much energy as a fastball or a heavy book dropped from head height, both of which are things that humans survive (not without pain). Obviously a rifle is a lot nastier, but the killing power of guns is primarily due to the penetration and destruction of vital tissue. A 22LR is a very weak round. </p><p></p><p>What's so nasty about at gun is that it is a compact and easy to wield ranged weapon. It wasn't clear that early guns were deadlier than early bows or crossbows and indeed they probably weren't, but compared to bows they required way less training and were probably easier to manufacture and sustain logistically than crossbows once people figured out how to make decent-ish black powder. The early guns were very much in the styles of the crossbows of the age. </p><p></p><p>One thing I do think a lot of folks ignore is that military applications in the Early Modern era had guns being essentially a platoon or company sized weapon, at least on the battlefield, as indeed were bows and crossbows, whereas most RPGs are really skirmish/small unit type games. There was a <em>lot</em> of melee combat even into World War I when soldiers were in close quarters, such as in raiding parties.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jay Verkuilen, post: 7776568, member: 6873517"] Wound ballistics shows that a 9 mm handgun round has about as much energy as a fastball or a heavy book dropped from head height, both of which are things that humans survive (not without pain). Obviously a rifle is a lot nastier, but the killing power of guns is primarily due to the penetration and destruction of vital tissue. A 22LR is a very weak round. What's so nasty about at gun is that it is a compact and easy to wield ranged weapon. It wasn't clear that early guns were deadlier than early bows or crossbows and indeed they probably weren't, but compared to bows they required way less training and were probably easier to manufacture and sustain logistically than crossbows once people figured out how to make decent-ish black powder. The early guns were very much in the styles of the crossbows of the age. One thing I do think a lot of folks ignore is that military applications in the Early Modern era had guns being essentially a platoon or company sized weapon, at least on the battlefield, as indeed were bows and crossbows, whereas most RPGs are really skirmish/small unit type games. There was a [I]lot[/I] of melee combat even into World War I when soldiers were in close quarters, such as in raiding parties. [/QUOTE]
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