Talk:Compound Bow/@comment-202.124.135.206-20130308083253/@comment-5607198-20130308134414

why would there be a rifle? Technology jumped from a hand-held crossbow to a hand-held gun. unlike the real world, there was no intermediate technology, thus eliminating the reason one would be designed. This also might explain the lack of cannon: if gunpowder hasnt been discovered, we have to assume that prior to oil-driven industrial age, all naval combat was done with non-firearm weapons. Like greece, and many many others did.