I like to think I walk that line everyday of my life. Originally Posted by Excalibur. Good point since the term musketeers came out way before the invention of flintlocks.
But in some of the histories I've read, it keep telling me that muskets is the next evolution after the earlier guns. Thread Tools. All times are GMT. The time now is PM. User Name. Remember Me? Mark Forums Read. The "barrel" was just a long bell attached to a stick. Then you would have to light a fuse coming out the "barrel" and point it in the right direction without using your shoulder, because there was not stock.
This explains why the arqubues are basically worthless in the rain. They would have a long exposed fuse and the "barrell" would be exposed to water while preparing the weapon to fire.
Early musks were basically worthless in the rain, and that is truthfully depicted in STW. Well, here is my understanding of the problem. The Portuguese arquebus was a quite advanced form, it had stock, barrel, trigger. Since the musket is assumed to be an improvement compared to the Portuguese arquebus, thus the arquebus vs musket distinction cannot refer to the bare-barrel vs stock-barrel-trigger distinction.
The Chinese arquebus was introduced in into Japan. It was an inferior quality compared to the later Portuguese ones. Since the musket is assumed to be an improvement compared to the Portuguese arquebus, thus the arquebus vs musket distinction cannot refer to the Chinese vs Portuguese distinction.
The unique Japanese innovation was the standardization of the barrel and thus the bullet. It could lead to increased rate of fire, however, it should not affect the ability or rather inability of the weapon to work in rain, and neither it should affect the range of the weapon. Thus, again the arquebus vs musket distinction cannot refer to this case.
The major advance compared to matchlock weapons where you had a burning match was the innovation of the flintlock where you made spark with a flint. This took place in the early 17th century Europe. However, the flintlock was rare up to the middle 17th century, and matchlocks were used until late 17th century in Europe. This means that flintlocks had no effect whatsoever on the Sengoku Jidai period wars in Japan.
IMO this is the only innovation that could serve as a base for the arquebus i. However, if this is the case, then the introduction of the musket into STW was a very, very, very big mistake. Konnichiwa, Japanese used special prepared fuses that allowed to fire in rain. Ja mata TosaInu. Thx Tosa. Musket firing from a recreation of a Thirty Years' War battle.
The Musket is a type of firearm that typically featured a long, smoothbore barrel and fired either a musket ball or from the s a Minie ball. The 'Musket' was developed from the smaller arquebus in the s and was developed through its history into an ever more effective weapon until the mid s.
The name " musketeer " is applied to a soldier armed with a musket. The earliest reference to a hand held gun is found in China in This weapon was a simple tube with a hole by which its user lit the powder and is referred to as a hand cannon.
This device originally fired what was effectively a firework, before the design was refined to include a primitive stock for the user to hold. It was not very effective but was good for frightening the enemy. The weapon spread west until in the early s it reached Europe, where it was developed into the arquebus , the light precursor of the full sized muskets that appeared in the s. The arquebus was a light, smoothbore, muzzle loaded , matchlock weapon. Because of the arquebus the armor of pikemen increased from 15kg to 25kg.
In the s, infantry called arqubusiers would be mixed with pikemen to combine the offensive power of firearms with the defensive power of pikes. As these formations evolved, the musket appeared. The musket was based on the arquebus but was much heavier and more powerful and the early musketeers had to use a stand to support them. They were combined with the arquebuses in the infantry units, but in time muskets that were lighter were developed and replaced arquebuses in European armies in the 17th century.
In the late part of the century, the bayonet was invented for the musket, and the use of pikes faded away. The matchlock mechanism was the first standard firing mechanism of muskets but was sometimes replaced by a wheellock mechanism.
The wheellock utilized a steel wheel which was spun to produce sparks to ignite the powder in the breech. This was an improvement on the matchlock and the first instance of a firearm being capable of self-ignition but it was expensive and was never widely used. With the invention of the flintlock mechanism, the matchlock and wheellock mechanisms slowly disappeared in the s.
The snaplock was the first flintlock style mechanism and appeared in the s. Eventually flintlocks became standard in European armies by the end of the 17th century.
The flintlock mechanism used a piece of flint held in the hammer which when the hammer was pulled would strike a steel plate above the flash pan , igniting the powder in the flash pan which would then ignite the charge.
Famous examples of the flintlock musket include the British Brown Bess , the longest serving firearm in history, and the Charleville Musket which would form the basis of other designs for well over a century.
The era of the musket ended with the emerging use of breechloading, cap fired rifles, which began to appear in the s the Norwegian made Kammerlader and Prussian Dreyse needle gun to name two of the earliest widely used examples.
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