Bayonets on riflemen were extremely long, especially in the start of the war because there was this conception that melee fighting would be done on a dueling basis of fencing with rifles. After the carbine, the secondary weapon was still the sabre, and the pistol in many cases was really only there because etiquette demanded that an officer own a pistol. How much of a burden is it just to carry? How easily is ammunition made or bought? How reliable is the gun and how vulnerable is it to rain, dirt, heat & cold? Is it useful for hunting? Is it useful as a primary weapon in a fighting situation or is it more of a one-and-done tool?ĭuring WW1 all the way through 1918 and later, cavalry soldiers on all sides had a rifle/carbine, pistol, and sabre. I think one of the factors about a firearm is the day to day stuff. I don't think that's the only mythical context you could build for firearms in fantasy, but to dismiss guns out of hand because they aren't likely to be like Gram or Excalibur. Guns have power, and confer that power to anybody. The six-gun, and repeater rifle are legendary in part because anybody could and did use them. The gun has a certain mythical power in the consciousness of many Americans as a symbol of personal liberty. I feel that you didn't consume much cowboy fiction as a youngster. Guns just aren't conductive to being legendary weapons, nor are they conductive to making legendary individuals. On top of that, gun models are very mass manufactured, printed out by companies by the truckload, unlike the swords of old which were the custom jobs of skilled blacksmiths. It's a weapon with a very low skill floor, pretty much any idiot can become proficient in a gun with barely any training and do better than someone who spent years mastering a sword. >Guns are a mass-produced weapon made for mass-produced soldiers. Guns are a mass-produced weapon made for mass-produced soldiers. >I understand a sword is a symbolic sort of weapon that has many a legend attached to it by why not a gun?

Do you see anyone using a sword nowadays? Even with what >51157930 references, the swords and spears people were given were SIDEARMS to the gun when they shared mass deployment status, which doesn't work out for anyone that doesn't want to use a gun as their primary weapon. >It seems like they can only ever be unstoppable weapons that kill everything ever or made to be absolutely useless to a point a dagger is mechanically a better option?

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