Comments of chapter undefined of Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology
Reborn In 17th century India with Black Technology
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Now would be good time to introduce Heliograph based telegraphy for long distance communications. Also since Dreyse needle gun made use of paper patched cartridge and precussion caps, it would be best for him to point his team towards development of mercury fulminate.
ABHI29:Please do. Though hailing from non technical background, I am an avid enthusiast about military tech and tech history in general. I will also continue my own research and continue to give my advice when ever possible, but I may be much helpful I technical workings. By the way, it's imperative that the development of rifled muzzle loading flintlock muskets , and more importantly precussion caps needs to precede Dreyse needle gun, which essentially were rifled and smooth bore muskets converted to breach loading rifles that fired paper patched cartridge. Later as the machine tool technology matures and precision metal working lathes are crafted, metal black powder cartridges can be developed with precussion caps, which can then lead to development of hand cranked Gatling Guns and something like Hotchkiss revolving Canon capable of shooting shells in excess of 30mm rapidly. Also when precission cap is developed Vijay can consider developing huge 10-20inch cannons like the Amstrong gun from Malta. Those fired massive high explosive shells filled with mostly blackpowder filling and use it for guarding key choke points and defend shores.
Ah yes! was waiting for the moment when Dakshin Bharatiya Empire declares a total war on Mughals once and for all. The Mughal Badshah had it coming, especially after his failed assassination attempt on Vijay. Pretty sure though, this total war will drag the Ottomans and maybe even indirectly pool in both British and the Dutch all of whom are greatly distressed by the growth and prosperity of Dakshin Bharatiya Empire. Hence i strongly believe, Vijay needs to greatly expand the strength of the Army as well as Navy and even consider creating a dedicated Marine force for naval infantry landing operations. Vijay also needs to significantly revamp communications and restructure infantry formations into pike and shot formations before innovation of breach loading rolling block carbines or something like Sharp's Carbines enter service. After innovating muzzle loading rifled muskets, Vijay needs to consider converting them into Dreyse Needle guns after introduction of precussion caps ( require development of mercury fulminate as a precondition) , these would serve as a great interim technology before blacknpowder metal carriages could be developed and subsequently Gatling gun could also be considered.
The Mughal Empire doesn't stand a chance against Vijay this time. what i mean is even with a larger population and even if they double their army size, they'd face defeat due to Vijay's industrial power. They would require an army of over 600,000 to 1,000,000, along with support from the Ottoman Empire, to put up a strong fight. However, this might not be possible due to a hostile empire between them. also i think Vijay should not hesitate to use powerful weapons like explosives against the Mughal Empire in war. he already has enough character development.
