What if...
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Topic: What if...
Posted By: Mast
Subject: What if...
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2004 at 04:30
| What if gunpowder was never invented? How would modern warfare look like? |
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Posted By: Temujin
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2004 at 07:41
I can think of huge crossbows mounted on planes... ------------- |
Posted By: Genghis
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2004 at 08:11
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Very hard to say. Without the resources obtained from the Earth with explosives, there might have been no industrial revolution at all, or just a smaller one. Socially, the West wouldn't be as egalitarian, because gunpowder weapons helped destroy the idea of noble superiority when a lowly peasant was able to take a hand cannon and slay a noble knight. ------------- Member of IAEA |
Posted By: demon
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2004 at 15:11
I guess the mongols conquered all of the World  ------------- Grrr.. |
Posted By: Tobodai
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2004 at 15:22
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maybe people would have skipped over gunpowder and headed straight for nitroglycerin. ------------- "the people are nothing but a great beast... I have learned to hold popular opinion of no value." -Alexander Hamilton |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 19-Aug-2004 at 15:49
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These types of what-ifs are really tipsy. I mean, you can't really say that gunpowder would never have been created- what's to say that it would not have been invented, say, 20 days or 20 years later than in RL? ------------- |
Posted By: cattus
Date Posted: 20-Aug-2004 at 02:05
King Jeff, let me remind you that you are in the Historical Amusement section. ------------- |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 20-Aug-2004 at 16:05
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if the gunpowder... we never, ever had Die Hard movie, or something like this. ------------- |
Posted By: Dari
Date Posted: 20-Aug-2004 at 16:37
That would be a truly sad world, no Die Hard trilogy is a horrific thing to imagine.  ------------- 
Dari is a pimp master |
Posted By: Arkhanson
Date Posted: 02-Sep-2004 at 09:19
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MP 40's could be Machine Crossbow 40 ------------- 
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Posted By: Dari
Date Posted: 04-Sep-2004 at 16:23
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Ooh! And grenades would be like the Mayan/Aztec ones, filled with angry wasps! -------------
Dari is a pimp master |
Posted By: Jagatai Khan
Date Posted: 10-Sep-2004 at 08:47
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The guns would be like in Half Life. ------------- |
Posted By: Shifty Russian
Date Posted: 15-Oct-2004 at 16:52
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I would have invented it, and made the world and exciting place to be again theres only so long throwing stones can be amusing* chucks granade out the window for fun......................................................... ........... BOOM!!!!!!!... LOL ------------- I'm Shifty Russian, Suka |
Posted By: TMPikachu
Date Posted: 15-Oct-2004 at 19:52
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Hmmm... big crossbows. I've been developing a fantasy world idea with no gunpowder. Lots of crossbow type weapons.
NO FIREWORKS! and no firecrackers on new years... that would be wierd... |