Philippine

[Gelrir]

Instead of the "usual" Brown Bess muskets and Kentucky rifles, here are some weapons made with minimal workshops:

http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2...mboanga-seige/

"The World's Fighting Shotguns" by Thomas Swearengen has many, many more of these (and he's only looking at shotguns). Some are quite wacky; many are made to mimic features of 'real' weapons.

Various zip guns and odd, homemade weapons will continue to accrue as long as cartridge ammunition is available (or can be reloaded).

In my current campaign, there are a lot of very simple, unrifled 40mm launchers. The rounds they fire are mostly made using old training rounds, propelled by a .38 Special blank; being unrifled, they don't have the nice fuzing options. Instead, they just go off after a delay of a few seconds (3 to 8, depending on who made them, quality of manufacture, etc.). Range is also much shorter than the 20th Century originals. Explosive charge is either black powder or simple early explosives.

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Michael B.