Matchlock Fantasy

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For some reason (I have suspicions about that), whenever we talk about adding guns to fantasy settings, things go straight to Napoleonic flintlocks ala McClellan or Wexler, or to weird west six shooters and repeater rifles.



Does anyone know of a story that uses matchlock arquebuses, which were utilized on the battlefield with plate armor for a century or more?

 

[Grenadier1758]

The PBS series, "Jamestown". But that was about the extent of their correctness factor.

 

[BillinOregon]

Might want to ask this question in either the Pre-flintlock or Pre-flintlock Wars forums.

 

[TobJohn]

To clarify, you are talking about fantasy settings and not history/Alt history?

DnD has rules for matchlock guns

The Empire in Warhammer Fantasy is based on the renaissance Holy Roman Empire, so they have many gun armed soldiers. Sometimes they are depicted as using matchlocks. I think Games Workshop’s early molding technology didn’t allow the guns to have enough detail (bows didn’t even have strings) so the locks weren’t very clear and are often now depicted as flintlocks or wheellocks.

 

[OldNo7]

There are some short videos from full-length movies on youtube from the Far East which show battles with the opposing armies using matchlocks. Can't recall if its the Chinese or the Japanese, but someone else might be able to tell us which.

Old No7

 

[Sam squanch]

Matchlock fantasy?!?

 

[TobJohn]

Matchlock fantasy?!?

Sam, you posting something with the word “waifu” was not on my bingo card

 

[Sam squanch]

That’s a portrait of Rudyard’s gun bearer when he goes out hunting far away from home…..

 

[TobJohn]

That’s a portrait of Rudyard’s gun bearer when he goes out hunting far away from home…..

Rudyard has lived so much life that any fantasy setting would be a downgrade

 

[Rudyard]

Rudyard has lived so much life that any fantasy setting would be a downgrade

TobJohns only saying that because its true if they shot me tomorrow ide still have lived several lives , wasnt some grand plan I just followed my fancy & fate did the rest .More or less. My urge to travel hitching or freights and hedging & ditching got to be the norm but I met lots of folks of all stamps & nations. Met two Dukes & took tea with three Maharajas .Not quite" Shouted on 7 ounze nuggets or starved on a seedy boys pay " (Kilplings' Lost Legion' )but got that way some times Got some awfull maladies Malaria , black water fever (in Kathmandu) Tick bite fever,in Zulu land Burst Apendix in Invergargil and plenty I knew not what they where , But my poo came out like a green peanuts . once got yards of flatworms present from the Yucatan probably .Faced Bears & Amourus Moose .took deck passage on a Pilgrim steamer. Crewed a Cayman island tramp Puerta Cortez to Kingston . Fired a steam ex Corvette Brisban river to Singapore . Might be up there with Marco Polo in mileage & overlanding . Did 17 NMLRA Eastern R.vous & a raft of events & gun shows Got Commissioned a' Lt' in the then' Red hats, ' LT Mork' Lizards little jest because I added a bit of exotica probably, I don't know ,Lizard was Frightfully profane but got to love him for all that .Oh made over 200 MLs.Not counting 'in the whites'( At least three made national museums ). From the Klondike to Alice Springs & now over twenty years local SAR & C D radio checker & spells as local Counciler very nearly respectable same as Ben Gunn in a way .Must go Regards Rudyard

 

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[Rudyard]

Multy full rows of ????s makes no sense must presume disinterest or dislike might be read as' fantasy' but it was what I did. sorry if it sits ill with you truth can be more. bizarre than fiction .Skite it might be, Fiction it wasn't . Rudyard