[quote=@Zugzwang]
Oh man, I've always wanted to play a game full of Tercios: 1500s soldiering is a hell of a drug. I'm not sure I've ever seen a steampunk game wherein the military technology is ~350 years behind the rest of it, but I can dig it.

Though, a fun character would be a younger prince who discovered the joys of mixing charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter...

As an aside, what are the cannon like? Are we talking muzzleloading pieces of shit or screw-breech armstrong goodness?
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Hm, good question. I'm thinking that muzzle-loading cannons are currently the norm, but early screw-breech mechanisms are being introduced (in the Empire, obviously).

Oh, and I forgot to mention airships before. Yeah, we've got those.

[hider=Airships][img]http://www.scifiwright.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Airships.jpg[/img][/hider]

Now, most civilian ships of this kind are little more than blimps. But the Imperial Fleet has an impressive collection of warships which would make the Hindenburg blush, with the largest ones having enough firepower to level a city. They're limited in altitude, of course; to cross the wall-like Nerwains in the north, they had to fly small blimps up to a promising looking plateau, build a base there, and set up machinery to quite literally lift the larger airships high enough to cross the mountains. Needless to say, the Xiang were taken completely by surprise when THAT appeared to blot the sky.