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We do, actually, it's just the the indoctrination is usually isn't on the violent bits.

E: Or the entirety of the book. So, yeah.

Really? I've only heard of that kind of thing in the more extreme sects like Jehovah's Witnesses or the isolationist American ones.

I didn't want that 5 minutes ago.
Constantly suffering units when?

In DF being on fire is pretty much a death sentence regardless of what happens, since the injuries are too bad and also they won't get in water of their own volition. However, the units in XCOM 2 will try and put themselves out. Therefore more complexity.

A gun that reloads using recoil uses the recoil of a bullet being shot to load another bullet into the guns chamber.

Which requires a magazine. Which is the kind of thing we just couldn't do right now. The simplest you could get it would be hand loaded (like so) and that still requires the kind of precision engineering that just doesn't exist in the 1780s. If we want faster load times our most reasonable bet is breech loading and even that's probably not going to go smoothly.

But this is a discussion for next year anyway. Right now we should wait and see if there's any objections to rifling. And actually we'd better define what that is huh:
And Napoleon thought rifles were useless. We'll show him! One way or the other.


ninjad: tntey are you drunk?
EDIT: Sorry that was pretty rude to say. It was meant to sound more light-hearted than it probably did. Tar-tipped crossbows definitely were a thing but they're only really good for burning settlements and that's not the kind of thing we want to do.

I'll throw my hat in with rifling. Maybe later we could go for breech-loading but right now the chance of that going wrong (a very high chance. delicate movable parts don't mix well with explosions) isn't worth it.

Make a railroad connecting everything and then make a rollercoaster.

So complexity is based on time rather than literally on complexity? Good to know I guess.

That shouldn't be too much a problem for rifling since that was invented in the 16th century, and people just didn't bother with it until the 19th. Still kind of wary of it though, after the Mulard's flop. We could try and fix that either I guess.

And for Zan: If the ship couldn't move with screws then it wouldn't be able to move with paddles either, since the screw is more energy efficient than paddles by a considerable way, so if there's a thrust issue with propellers there's just a power problem in general and really we shouldn't be able to use the thing at all.

Nobody should trust me with an art ever again.


Someone else could probably do better but at least there's some general themes in there that would be good to follow. Royal families love halberds.