Guild Small Arms and Equipment

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# Infantry Weapons

## Muskets

### Penwood Basic Musket

The staple of Guild soldiers, the Penwood musket is the First and foremost weapon of the rebellion. Made by multiple factories in every Guild branch, the Penwood is a remarkably simple, but improved design over the older muskets it's based on. the Penwood consists of a simple barrel and stock construction with ample room for customization. Apart form the simple act of adding modifications, the musket bullets the Guild manufactures can be easily altered to contain abnormal ammunition. Thought the normal Penwood muskets suffer from a diminished range compared to most rifles, the battlefields the guild enters usually never involve long ranged shootouts with infantry forces. over sized Penwood muskets found on the aptly named Penwood Musket IFV are known to be able to propel shots to the usual distances. Still, the Guild is searching for a way to increase the distance for the Industrialist's muskets, and have succeeded, in one way.

### Penwood Ballistic Musket

The not-so-staple of Guild soldiers, the Penwood Ballistic musket was created out of a experimental design to increase the Industrialist's musket range. Though the rifle preforms admirably, propelling a musket load out to speeds serviceable for modern rifles, the effect on gravity still takes it's toll on the musket bullet, pulling it down well before it can reach the range of a modern rifle. as a result, the rifle has to be fired in a ballistic curve. As not every Industrialist is capable of firing a bullet in a perfect ballistic curve while accounting for air resistance, wind direction and load out weight, the musket was essentially useless, and thus, scrapped. The remaining Penwood Ballistic muskets are handled behind the lines, and are often fired by Industrialists on standby, hoping to hit something on the battlefield from their position in the reserve forces. An aware commander can issue such groups a ballistics expert to at least aim the shots in somewhat smaller cone, hopefully preventing friendly fire.

## Service Rifles

### Settling Sniper Rifle

A common mistake is to assume the Guild still hunt with old British guns from around 1900. This is not exactly true, but comes close to the truth in core. The Guild's sniper rifles are manufactured by themselves, their design based on these older sniper rifles such as the Pattern 1914 and the Ross rifle, trying to put the best portions of these rifles into a cheap construct. The resulting rifle is unique, in it's core very simple, yet gifted with a range and accuracy speed good enough to rival other military used rifles. While such a simple rifle requires a lot more experience to land a shot with, the Guild is capable of producing enough of them to allow each industrialist a shot at the start of their career, weeding out the marksman they need later. A interesting design choice of the Settling is that the Guild decided to keep the gun as a Bolt action rifle, unlike the Pahit's semi automatic marksman rifles. This is perhaps because the Guild's marksman were intended from the start to counter the Pahit's marksman, and thus wouldn't have to hit that many targets.

## Anti-Tank Weapons

### Tudor Thumper

The Tudor Thumper is exactly what it's name suggest, a weapon from the Tudors. After all, it doesn't get more antique then using a cannon . The Tudor Thumper is mass produced by the guild from the scraps of other weapons, some parts simply melted down to be cast anew, others just welded on to preserve functionality. Sights and scope from other types of arms for example are usually welded on to provide some sort of aim. These Cannonss provide basic functionality, and are largely serviceable, but are completely unreliable, requiring a small inspection after every shot. To compensate for this, the Guild manufactures a high-yield explosive to come with these Cannons, a dumb-fire projectile aimed at maximizing the yield of any shot. As a result, Tudor Thumper are often only wielded by people with a complete disregard for their own (and the enemies) lives.

## Grenades

### Brickston Bombs

Technically not a grenade, yet used as one, the Brickston is well known for it's comedic shape. A Round orb with a small outcrop topped by a fuse, the Brickston resembles the classical slapstick approach to explosives so much one often forgets these types of explosives were actually used in the era before proximity fuses and contact fuses. As in the Guild's case the amount of men jeopardized by friendly fire incident directly increases with the complexity of the charge in question, the Guild opt for very simple hand-thrown explosives. The Brickston is one of the most common ones. Essentially nothing more then a bunch of explosive matter with a fuse, training soldiers to use the bomb requires nothing more then throwing instructions and timing training. Though throwing these heavy bombs requires more work then simple potato grenades, and timing the fuse requires some extra ingenuity compared to a pin, the sheer amount of Brickston bombs available to Guild forces, and the bomb's potent charge make it a valued infantry weapon.