Fiction talk:Ar-Klith Sky Empire

A note on weapons
Hi,

So I was reading this fiction and, while good, I noticed a few items in the Ar-Klith arsenal that where either anachronistic or would be completely paradigm-shifting, to an extreme.

One of my major concerns is the use of "revolver guns". From what I infer from this (admittedly) vague term, I think you mean the old revolvers and repeating rifles of the mid to late 1800's. If so, then I should explain how mind-bogglingly powerful such weapons would be, compared to your foes.

Consider this: The arquebus, a primitive, unreliable, and inaccurate weapon with an effective range of only fifty paces or less, revoluitionized warfare. Such a feeble weapon completely annihilated its competition the longbow and crossbow and put the armoured knight out of business.

Now imagine this weapon, but with the ability to fire a dozen rounds in less than a minute, and extend your effective range from fifty metres, to 650 to a kilometre. I hope by now you see how completely and utterly doomed any other Koldenwelti army would be against even a tiny detactment of these infantry.

So my potential solution is this; Instead of the rather outragiously powerful repeaters and revolvers, instead make the primary infantry rifle a smoothbore, flintlock musket (For example, the British "Brown Bess") or perhaps even a rifled musket (A Minie Rifle, for instance). This I think would be a more agreeable arrangement which, while still conferring you a massive technological advantage, at least gives competing nations a fair chance.

Thanks,

Ze Battul Medick! (talk) 05:02, August 8, 2014 (UTC)Operation Marines