Comments of chapter undefined of Herald of Steel
Herald of Steel
FerriticMatrix
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I'm really digging the whole roman legion plus european heavy cavalry, crossbows, and even the instant-bow thrown in mix of warfare, but I hope you're not such a romeaboo that you stop there. If this is going to be several thousand chapters, as I suspect it will be, he should move on to pike and shot or even straight to musket and cannon warfare EVENTUALLY! Obviously his industrial technology is a bit unprepared and he has no chemists to speak of at the moment, but college chemistry classes should have prepared him for at least basic stuff that he can teach, and with gunpowder being a specific mix of charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter, it isn't incredibly complex. Remember, your mc IS a metallurgist, don't tell me he doesn't have the knowledge to educate men enough to make muskets and gunpowder, it will just take time. Would be cool if a couple rounds of cannon canister shot annihilated an enemy cavalry charge in its first battle, for instance.
Further ideas here that you are free to disregard but grenadiers would be a good application of gunpowder too. In the warfare that you depict where punching holes in enemy lines is the key to victory, you could either have grenadiers all across the 2nd or 3rd row to shred the enemy frontline apart, or cluster them on one or a few spots to punch deeper holes in specific spots and allow flanking and encirclement. Obviously, grenades would also be an absurdly psychologically damaging thing for the era, explosives would be utterly terrifying to an enemy with no knowledge of them and their superstition would lead them to conclude all kinds of crazy and scary things, making a mass rout quite possible if there isn't a huge troop number disparity.
