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What was the first firearm introduced to your nation ?

Handcannons (14th-16th century)
28
49%
Matchlock Arquebuses (16th-18th century)
9
16%
Wheel lock muskets/pistols (17th-18th century)
4
7%
Flintlock muskets/pistols (18th-19th century)
2
4%
Lever-action rifles/shotguns (19th century)
0
No votes
Pump-action rifles/shotguns (19th-20th century)
3
5%
Bolt-action rifles/shotguns (20th century)
1
2%
Modern Weaponry (Today)
5
9%
Firearms ? What is that ?
0
No votes
Fantasy Firearms
5
9%
 
Total votes : 57

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When was your nation introduced to firearms ?

Postby -The Trade Federation- » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:08 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?

2. What were these types of firearms ?

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?

My answers:

1. Firearms were introduced during the time when Skyloft was a conquered territory of a technologically advanced empire, the Azuritan Empire, who already possessed firearms (more specifically arquebuses.)

2. The arquebuses were the first firearms ever introduced to the Skyloftians. The wheel lock muskets didn't appear until the reign of the Governors-Merchands.

3. The Arquebusiers' Division, a brigade of 25 marksmen equipped with arquebuses, were the first division equipped with firearms.
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Postby Xekliv » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:18 pm

1. Oh, ages ago. They were originally created in order to penetrate the adamantium armor of the Elves.

2. Basic arquebus design. It was pretty much a miniature cannon on a stick. Became more advanced over time, from muskets to revolving rifles.

3. They became widespread during the Xeklivian Civil War, where almost every soldier had a rifle.
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Postby Hladgos » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:21 pm

Since Hladgos popped into existence with modern technology already achieved, we were introduced at inception.
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Postby Uelvan » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:24 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?
In the 13th century 2E. No one quite knows when, as record keeping in those days were not that good.

2. What were these types of firearms ?
Great Bombards, hand cannons, exploding kegs of gunpowder.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?
1356, when Uelvan began trading with the Eucadians and Unitopians for guns in their wars against the outlaying natives. Before then, gunpowder was a trade secret by the Eucadians and the Uelvanians did not trust the Unitopians and their Emperors, given the fact that Uelvan recently revolted against their own Emperor and Eucadia was also a Republic.

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Postby -The Trade Federation- » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:35 pm

Useful information:

Arquebuses/matchlock muskets AND wheel lock muskets existed between the 15th and 17th century.

Flintlock muskets existed between the 17th and 19th century.

Lever-action AND pump-action guns existed between the 19th and 20th century.

Bolt-action existed in the 20th century.

Modern firearms...self-explanatory.

No weapons ? Damn, you live in trees.
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Postby Pentecosta » Wed Mar 26, 2014 6:58 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?
Early 1700's, immigrants.

2. What were these types of firearms ?
Muskets were brought with immigrants in the 1700's, for self defense reasons (specifically against pirates). Prior to the 1700's, crossbows were used.
The land was (and still is) rich and abundant, and pirates would often ambush export shipments.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?
Mid 1800's, nation was officially formed in 1842.


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Postby Anollasia » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:42 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?

The first firearms were introduced in 1650.

2. What were these types of firearms ?

Generally muskets and rifles.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?

1650; current military was equipped in 1770.


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Postby Farzland » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:50 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?

C. 1682

2. What were these types of firearms ?

Small rifles and muskets, slingshots and pistols

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?

1701

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Postby Themiclesia » Wed Mar 26, 2014 7:55 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms?

Firearms were introduced to our armed forces in the 14th Century as portable, one-man cannons.

2. What were these types of firearms?

Small, one-man cannons.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms?

The late 14th Century.
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Postby Guadalupador » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:04 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?
The Kingdom of Greater Seitra introduced firearms into the land of Guadalupador, around 1453.
2. What were these types of firearms ?
The Seitrians were equipped with arquebuses.
3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?
Our military, being part of the Greater Seitrian/Guadalupan Empire, was equipped with firearms in 1470.
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Postby Gallia- » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:06 pm

Farzland wrote:1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?

C. 1682

2. What were these types of firearms ?

Small rifles and muskets, slingshots and pistols

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?

1701


Sadly slingshots are poor firearms.

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Postby -The Unified Earth Governments- » Wed Mar 26, 2014 8:14 pm

Firearms have already been a ancient technology that was ever evolving by our point.

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Postby Parhe » Thu Mar 27, 2014 12:52 am

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms?
Firearms as fire arrows and fire lance were first introduced in the late twelfth century. Of those in the poll, it was introduced in mid 1500's.

2. What were these types of firearms?
The arquebus.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms?
By 1580 the arquebus was common place in both the military and general populaces.
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Postby Kenzinia » Thu Mar 27, 2014 1:16 am

1. Around the 1890s, when the Dutch came to invade us.

2. Some pump action shotguns and rifles like the Trenchgun.

3. In the 1920s, when we fought the Dutch to gain our independence from them.
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Postby Irona » Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:13 am

1. During the early medieval period seeing as the pre-Ironaian Petty-states were heavy traders and had a good geographical position to do so.

2. Early gunpowder weapons

3. Although known about and cannons were used firearms were seen as unreliable and ineffective by most states and used primarily by mercenary forces

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Postby Neo Majapahitan Empire » Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:35 am

1. We're introduced to firearm when a mongoloid foreigner comes to our land, to trade their guns for plain old spice.

2. Hand Cannons.

3. We use our firearms for our "Great Extermination" campaign, it was pretty effective agaisnt the giant stripe mosquitos.

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Postby Ermarian » Thu Mar 27, 2014 3:56 am

Thaumic energy weapons ("wands") predate our known history, and are known to be at least three thousand years old. The first projectile weapons used a thaumic propellant: It was a ship-to-ship weapon (basically a harpoon cannon powered by magic) and was developed in the second century a.i. to extend the range of ordinary wands as well as breach arcane shields.

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Postby Argentix » Thu Mar 27, 2014 4:55 am

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms?
  • Firearms had been known in this area of the world since their introduction by the colonizing Spanish, long before the foundation of even our ancestral nations.

2. What were these types of firearms?
  • Those used by the Spanish were originally match-lock arquebuses. We've effectively gone through every stage and regressed to percussion locks following the Fall of Western Civilization.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms?
  • It has been since its inception.
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Postby Flanders-Holland » Thu Mar 27, 2014 5:09 am

1: When was your nation introduced to firearms?

When the firearm was invented.

2. What were these types of firearms?

Arquebuses.

3: When was your military first equipped with firearms?

The first soldier got the first firearm in Flanders-Holland in around the 15th century.
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Postby Saurisisia » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:11 am

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?
Sometime in the 12th century AD.

2. What were these types of firearms ?
Primitive cannons, handcannons and arquebuses would not come until later.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?
Around the midpoint in the 1300s.
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Postby Fatatatutti » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:23 am

Fatatatutti was first exposed to firearms (flintlocks) when the first Europeans came in the mid-1700s, led by Captain Baker and followed by others. Our only contact with westerners in the 1800s was with whalers who visited the island for water and provisions. They had cap-and-ball weapons. Toward the end of the 1800s, when white planters came to grow pineapples, the first "defense battalions" were formed, which were eventually organized into our present Army. With the influx of white influence it became clear that we needed a modern army to defend our own interests, so modern bolt-action rifles were purchased from abroad. Around the turn of the twentieth century the Takeapenny Arsenal was established to develop our own weapons and equipment, though they were still often based on borrowed foreign designs.

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Postby Olwe » Thu Mar 27, 2014 10:34 am

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms ?

We've known about them since they were invented... late 15th century, maybe?

2. What were these types of firearms ?

Arquebus types, followed a few decades later by more advanced types like flintlocks.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms ?

2002, during our intervention in the War on Terror. But they're still very rarely used to this day... we prefer things like the phoenix rod for ranged combat.
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Postby Duvniask » Thu Mar 27, 2014 2:42 pm

1. When was your nation introduced to firearms?
13th century. We invented our own primitive firearms.

2. What were these types of firearms?
Hand cannons.

3. When was your military first equipped with firearms?
Late 13th century.
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