Trying to get my head around the “technology” of this industrial fantasy game 🙂 So I started looking for films set in the mid 19th century.
Deadwood – 1870s goldrush town in america
– guns are around, 6 shooters and rifles – but mainly knives… lots of knives.
– newspapers, and even a telegraph in the later seasons.
The Last Samurai – 1877 satsuma rebellion.
– guns and cannon. (and swords and bows).
– repeating shotgun (with about 4 shots) is a “special gun” for the sergeant.
– gatling guns appear at the end of the movie…. army destroying!
– but tactics and clever baiting allows swords & bows to still outdo the rifle-armed infantry. (until said gatling guns appear)
Gangs of New York
– oh good lord! knives, cleavers, clubs, wood & nails… But a wonderful view of crowded city life.
Check out Taboo recently on the BBC it’ll give you a good flavor for early 19th Century London
Dishonored, Thief, Taboo, Penny Dreadful…mix and mash and enjoy!
Mind blanking right now but the one that is coming up is Peaky Blinders.
Industrial Birmingham in the UK – for gloom, fire and gangs – good choice!
for some reason i was imagining a much more primitive setting – more like Outlander/Rob Roy, etc.. Need to re-calibrate my expectations… Would making the “fine pistols” a pair of six shooters be out of place?
Kenny Crowe, if my opinion matters on this, I feel a 6-chamber revolver would be a very unique weapon, no just finely crafted. Magazine-fed? Unheard…possibly undreamt….of. A fine pistol would be sturdier, fire further, have a bigger bullet/charge, reload faster or have a two shots. Things like that. Dishonored 2 has upgrades for the pistols which capture how I see it in Blades.
But possible, because PCs are awesome and can change their world. 🙂
Flitlock and Muskets I think
Flintlocks (musket or pistol) are much earlier inventions.. like 1600 to 1700… By victorian times they were well and truly replaced.
So now I’m picturing inspirations like
Outlander – 1750’s jacobite rebellion.. This REALLY inspires me for Scovlander “patriots” building rebellion against the Imperial governors. 🙂 Muskets and pistols (often carring multiple) but lots of knives, swords etc…
Rob Roy – another scottish film. 1720s(?) limited firearms, mainly swords and politics..
Black Sails – Awesome piracy series 1720’s Caribbean.. (Dagger Isles?) cannon, pistols, muskets – but a lot of knives, swords, random heavy objects…. I think this feels closest as scenes in cities are drastically different, with lamps and fancy clothing etc…
Plunkett & Macleane – soooo underrated! 1750 highwaymen… hilarious robbery gone wrong… prison, flintlocks, grenades, etc
The Patriot – yes, mel gibsons… but the feel is really good. 1780’s? The war of independence in america. Axes, guerilla forces vs british redcoats. Manners and politics.
According to wiki until the mid 19th century and then they used percussion lock which from a look perspective are pretty much the same.