Trying to get my head around the “technology” of this industrial fantasy game :) So I started looking for films set…

Trying to get my head around the “technology” of this industrial fantasy game 🙂 So I started looking for films set…

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.

9 thoughts on “Trying to get my head around the “technology” of this industrial fantasy game :) So I started looking for films set…”

  1. 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?

  2. 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. 🙂

  3. 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.

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