[quote=@Romero]
I'm not going to keep arguing this, so now I need some ideas! 

My military is supposed to be made up of heavy cavalry (Night Mares, which hopefully you guys allow), a decent navy (albeit one that is as likely to rebel than to follow orders), a limited supply of quite good fighter planes, some big guns, and ranks of infantry with powerful guns. 

Obviously I don't have any tanks, or anything noticeable anti-tank wise, that's where my Reactor Rifles were going to make me even slightly competitive seeing as you all have militaries bigger than my entire population, so now I need ideas as to what technology is available to make powerful enough rifles to be strategically valuable. Any and all ideas are welcome! 

EDIT: Railguns maybe? 
[/quote]Railguns are very unlikely as personal weapon, especially this early. Electronic weapons in general only "slightly" better than chemical ones even with sufficient power source. Their usefulness is in other qualities.
As for advanced but small military the problem with these is often that how would you prevent people from taking your technology?

[quote=@Romero]
That's fair enough, the amount of electricity you'd need would be huge. I'm still trying to go for the crazy scientist weapon type feel, so my final suggestion for a type of rifle before I scrap the entire nation and start over, the Tesla Gun, albeit not invented by Tesla. 

There's all kinds of theories that he was within reaching distance of achieving it, and I mean some guy managed to effectively build one in his basement! Bear in mind that my army is absolutely tiny compared to everyone else in the game, so I wouldn't be able to conquer the world solo, tesla guns or not 
[/quote]Tesla weapons can work. Others are referring more to the "Red Alert" kind of Tesla variety (big-ass lightning guns) but I suppose you mean his actual designs?
Yeah, if you give it sufficient amount of tech limitations so they don't just become "super guns" which everyone should have I can see this work.
Tesla's original idea was basically to accelerate a stream of tungsten atoms at massive velocities using something akin to a coilgun. The damage of this weapon system was supposed to be thanks to its concentrated beams being sustained. So you could carve neat and thin holes in stuff.
You can make these into mighty good defense turrets and there'd be perhaps rumors of you magically destroying trespassing aircraft which would make most nations wary of you.
Making mobile versions of this weapon would be more difficult since power storage and generation is kind of primitive at this time. That being said you'd have such weapons, just they won't maintain their "beam" for that long and would be overall weaker.