IMHO, perhaps the largest guns imported from Earth should be 9" Yankee dahlgreans, maybe 10" Columbiads or 11" Dahlgrens but even those last two weigh...
Snider-Enfields and 'trapdoor' Springfields may be other possiblities for a few Martian elites to be armed with, rather than older ML's. More bang for the...
Oh I'm sure the Europeans and the Americans would be dumping al sorts of stuff on the Martian market. Needle guns, Rollingblock Remmingtons, anything and ...
Yup, but the books, the guidelines and rules, suggest Martians be armed with muzzleloaders, both their own and imported Earthling ones. Variety is the spice of...
I postulated that the various abolition societies of the United States and Britain might wish to get involved against the Belgians in the Coprates. Heavens...
That's an interesting idea. The Belgians were in reality fairly heavy- handed in actual history. When I first read the S1889 books, the Belgians and the...
These groups might also help defray the costs of shipping all this stuff from Earth. Good possibilities for gun-running scenarios here. ... Dave "Life is not...
A few years back, we pretty much had an entire campaign that revolved around the Belgium-Tossia-Nectar situation, with some Siamese thrown in to spice it up...
... It was a heck of campaign, too! :) Chris is too modest to mention it, but he did three excellent articles on Siam in Space:1889 for TRMGS volume IV, they...
Sky Galleons of MarsI never played the RPG version of Space-1889, but I figured that the most enjoyable possible role would be an American running guns to the...
Hmmmmm?? Maybe a few Brits, French, Arabs, and Germans, with an Italian every now and then, per history. Chris ... but I ... running ... history ... you will ...
Thanx for the tip. It is too bad TRMGS Volume IV was never published. I have the first three volumes though. That large area to the south of the Tossian empire...
... -- "...How shall a man judge what to do in such times?!" "As he has ever judged," said Aragorn "Good and evil have not changed since yesteryear..." J.R.R....
try this _http://ourworlds.topcities.com/space1889/ships/wasp2.html_ (http://ourworlds.topcities.com/space1889/ships/wasp2.html) [Non-text portions of this...
Try this link instead. For some reason a underscore was added to the address: http://ourworlds.topcities.com/space1889/ships/wasp2.html ... -- John Reiher Have...
... And thanks again for the years you spent running it. You're one of the best GMs I've had and the players that stayed were good. Captain Andrew Stone is...
... More ... I would limit the more modern firearms to the few elites that you mention. The ability to move weapons from earth to mars requires technology...
According to Chadwick 'the yanks are everywhere, like mice!', so the Yank gunrunners must have some sort of vessel9s) that is/are available to them to use;...
I think a good example for „historical” forces would be the Sikh Army in the early 19th century, that had an overwhelming artillery superiority compared to...
The Sikhs are only one example, you ignore the American Indians, Arabs etc. I did previously mention that the people that sold the American Indians the...
Depends. I used India as an example, because it has the most similarities to Mars. It is far away, can only be reached by ship (in reasonable time). It has (or...
Just the point, **if you can get TO Mars at all**, which indicates just where are the LARGE Ether Ships that would carry such LARGE cannon and other LARGE arms...
Check TRMGS 2, pages 209 ff. there is a List of existing commercial ether lines. A great article by James Gambias. It contains all needed details for ...
... Hi Peter, ... but the Sikhs were _making_ their own guns. In the first years of the 1800’s, Ranjit Singh (1780-1839) is believed to have had only 35-40...
Yes, I have, and might do so again. So in reality, ahem, we can invent our own Ether Liners and etc., just as Chadwick intended all along. However, the...
Hello Michael, Your idea of the Martians copying some Earthling armaments is a good idea, and thank you for that good info. you posted. And the Sikhs, Afghans,...
One recommendable book is „Queen Victorias Enemies“ by Donald Featherstone ISBN 0 7137 2081 6, it contains everything from Abyssinians to Zulu (sadly Mars...
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