While thick walled and tall castles themselves would never likely come back, that style of warfare certainly could to some degree if defenses ever overpowered offense. Website.We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. Our bills are paid by our wonderful patrons. Not only are guns incredibly deadly, but there are ulminating in the infamously doomed charges of World War One. Forum Posts. In space combat, as stealth is fundamentally impossible, this would be even worse. But a peasant with a rifle is always dangerous. ing able to afford a sword and shield no longer carried much advantage. Thanks for the article, Oren, you’ve given me some good ideas for something I’ve had simmering.Hey man, if you write a story about the military spending money on useless toys from the Cold War, I’d read the heck out of it, just saying.Tom Clancy largely did this, those his books suffered from the dramatic problem that America was guaranteed to win, regardless of how much he(though his strawman liberal characters) tied their hands. But what happens to warfare when guns are added to the mix? But professional pikemen who trained together to move in formations could stop cavalry without any shooting. Imagine the conflict brought to your setting when the queen is deposed and a people’s council set up in her place. This includes the necessity of nuclear weapons, as conventional weapons just can’t stack up. If FTL were possible, it would be the only thing that could reverse this as it could thus allows warships to outrun sensor pulses. They are ranged weapons which propel bullets toward foes. It wasn’t long before someone had the bright idea to put these death-spitting metal tubes onto ships. In short tech overwhelms magic. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the Against plate or mail you would have better luck puncturing it with a mace, club, warhammer, spear, etc. date/timestamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s In my opinion, the inclusion of gunpowder in a fantasy setting opens a door for fantastic possibilities. That of a not quite modern setting with entirely fictional politics. Though naval artillery has always had two fundamental weaknesses. Guns (銃, Juu? Sometimes it's an inclusion which has it as existing along side magic. Which was at least partially intentional, people at the highest levels in the US knew some sort of attack would occur, but they also knew that it would politically be the only way to force the American population into the war. Modern guided missiles are rather easily hidden while warships are not. Modesitt Jr has worked on this in several different books. Given the obscene amount of resources in a single solar system, there is essentially no reason to ever really fight over them. Plate mail became an expensive relic, worn less and less as its protection waned. Other times science is catching up and is now starting to make non-magical folk on parity with the magicians.L.E. identifiable information. Looking to prep his readers for the next renaissance or apocalypse, whichever comes first. Most of the time people either use flint locks, or modern weapons. Our collectible fantasy swords are of the highest quality and they look really awesome too. The inventor of the Gatling gun noted that more died in war of infection and disease than gunfire. Cataphract units with both horse and rider in bullet-defying plate are rare (and hideously expensive) but damn terrifying. Introducing Guns into Fantasy Worlds. Against an unarmored human, it doesn’t take much force to drive a sharpened point through skin and muscle. We respect your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your privacy while online at our Guns reduce the price of war in some ways and increase it in others.