[quote=@Cyclone] Those old-fashioned muskets were [i]really[/i] powerful. Musket bullets would crush through your bones as opposed to just clip off them like modern bullets do. Not to mention that the old rifle rounds were also something like 0.70 caliber. As in for Damascus steel, pretty sure that to our knowledge it was just steel with a slight vanadium impurity and a special forging process. Even today that alloy is used, and while it might be slightly superior it's really not that huge of an advantage. So I think you're underestimating guns and overestimated metal armor. I mean no matter how hard metal armor is, its weight is prohibitive and blunt trauma will still kill you. Hell, slings were extremely effective against armored enemies and Ialu has Wi slingers than are probably more deadly than historical slingers. [/quote] Not really. If you're a super soldier with a very durable body, or one of these Fantasy races like Dunedain or a very strong orc from Middle Earth, which this world is very much alike to, it's probably an extremely good idea to have the best things you know how to fight extremely well with. The Japanese Era of the Sengoku Period wouldn't have necessarily been the same if they had weapons that Samurai and soldiers could withstand early era hand canons, let alone small arms.