(TFT) Re: Firearms

["Brett Slocum" <slocum@deliverator.io.com>]

From: "Scott A. Johnson" <calaban@inwave.com>
> 
> I am working on a Darkest Africa project, I want to do some real small
> skirmishes, large ones and roleplaying. I am probably going to use melee
> for the skirmish rules and tft for the roleplaying. I was wondering if
> anybody out there has had any experience with using firearms in the
> melee system, and how it worked.

We had several players use the various gunpowder weapons from TFT, including arquebus, 
blunderbuss, grenades, and, on at least one occasion, a petard. The unreliability of 
gunpowder balances these weapons greatly. We did not find that they ruined the balance of 
power in the campaign. Most parties only had one fusilier in them.
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