Firearms were easier to handle than bows, but because of the expensive powder, the finicky maintenance, and the hopelessly slow loading, medieval people had initially treated them as weapons lacking tactical value.
Cannons had been far more influential than guns.
Decisive weapons for smashing down castle walls.
Guns had been shunned because no suitable tactics had emerged to employ gunners efficiently, but now that paradigm was slowly shifting in the wake of this small battle. And at its center was Vintenheim.
"They say if you handle a gun well, you can kill even the strongest man in one shot."
"Isn't that true of any weapon? Get cut by a sword and you die just the same."
"Idiot! If you fight a strong man with a sword, it's weaklings like us who die! The gunners were saying that if you aim and fire, you can kill even a strong man in a single shot!"
"Really? Well, I suppose that's how they wiped out those terrifying mercenaries."
The defining feature of firearms was simple.
