The Black Powder Armory · Chapter 12

The Smokeless Handover

Smokeless powder arrives in 1886. Within fifteen years every army has a magazine rifle that fires ten times a minute with no cloud to mark it, and the weapons of this book are obsolete.

The arms of 1890 to 1938 are in The Modern Armory. For a table running the First World War with only this book, their stat lines are below. None of them is Unreliable, none uses the Prepare reload, and none makes smoke.

Weapon	Skill	Dmg	Crit	Range	Enc	Price	Avail	Qualities	Examples
Service Pistol	Light Ranged	6	3	Medium	1	300	Common	Concealable 1	Luger P08, Colt M1911, Mauser C96
Service Revolver	Light Ranged	6	4	Medium	2	350	Common	Accurate 1, Limited Ammo 6	Webley Mk VI, Nagant M1895, Colt New Service
Bolt-Action Rifle	Heavy Ranged	8	3	Long	4	600	Common	Accurate 1, Limited Ammo 5	Lee-Enfield, Mauser 98, Mosin-Nagant, Springfield M1903
Pump Shotgun	Heavy Ranged	8	3	Short	3	500	Common	Blast 4, Knockdown, Vicious 2	Winchester M1897 trench gun
Submachine Gun	Light Ranged	5	3	Medium	2	400	Military	Auto-Fire	Bergmann MP 18, from 1918
Squad Automatic Weapon	Gunnery	9	3	Long	5	1500	Military	Auto-Fire, Pierce 1, Cumbersome 3	Lewis gun, Chauchat, BAR, Madsen
Fragmentation Grenade	Light Ranged	8	4	Short	1	50	Military	Blast 6, Limited Ammo 1	Mills bomb, F1
Stick Grenade	Light Ranged	7	4	Medium	1	50	Military	Blast 5, Limited Ammo 1	Stielhandgranate
Flamethrower	Gunnery	8	4	Short	6	1500	Military	Burn 3, Blast 3, Cumbersome 3, Limited Ammo 5	Flammenwerfer, from 1915

The water-cooled machine gun on its tripod, the trench mortar, and the field gun are crew weapons, and are in neither book.

What carries over from this book into the trenches: the Socket Bayonet, the Trench Knife and Trench Club, the Steel Trench Helmet and Trench Armour, and the Dynamite Stick.