Ah, sorry. Just FYI, I'm sending some over time.
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I agree. But it's what we've been going with to explain extremely small populations:
Well, I suggested multiplying the world population by one thousand percent. A gentle recon that only requires adding a zero in post mentioning population.
Even in Pre-Neolithic/Pre-Bronze Era, there were world traders.
You know what I just realized? You lot are all making books and libraries, but the entire world is illiterate. Nobody invented writing or reading that I can recall.
That's why it isn't cheating.
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More durable than dragons?
The answer is "NOOO!"
Also, I'm looking at an addition to my portfolio(s).
@Cyclone You and me both brother xPP
@ActRaiserTheReturned At the moment we don't have orcs, gargoyles or any other trope fantasy creatures, it's only humans, who are pretty much the same as in our world, Uri, who don't have any kind of power against being stabbed, let alone shot, and the Cimex, who are equally vulnerable to stabbing and shooting.
And we also have dragons, whose scales offer very good protection, but certainly nothing to prevent a cannonball getting through without their magic wards.
We also have undead, but they're hardly invulnerable t physical attacks for the most part (unless they're ghosts)
Serpent Men are explicitly more durable.
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No matter how much muscle or fat you got, a musket round to the chest will penetrate your armour and still kill you. Bigger may mean stronger, but they're still as fragile as normal humans when it comes to getting shot.
If they're creatures like Gargoyles, no. It takes a certain level of power to pierce them. If YHVH was angry at the world and sent down lightning bolts, you don't respond by shooting at him with a sniper rifle.
Have no idea what you're getting on to Act, but the point Cyclone was trying to make is that in real life firearms out-matched even the best armours.
What I'm getting at is that people in these Fairy Tales and Myths were re-enacting had superior bodies. In superior armors, fire arms aren't as effective against them.
Do I have another 5 Might points? I only used 6 of 11.
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Those old-fashioned muskets were really 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.
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.
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It was 20 Khookies, not Might xP
As for Damascus Steel, I assure you, it could not cut through castle walls. It was just an extraordinarily hard steel, extremely durable and could be honed to a sharpness no other steel could.
I'd say that this 'Primal' Steel, as it cost 20 Khookies, would be a buffed up version of Damascus steel, plus some magical properties. Very hard, with wards protecting against all but mid-high level spells, can be sharpened to a very fine edge and it is likely that badly made blades would be cut or shatter upon contact with it. Armour made from it would be understandably of high quality, the wards would help against magic. It would fare better against firearms than normal armour did, but nothing like, for instance, kevlar.
Ah. . .um, I'm changing the name of this steel then. But, to be fair, for 1500's and 1800's fire arms, I don't know if Kevlar is needed?
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