Timeline for In what ways could a society that has rejected guns continue to improve on the Crossbow?
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| Feb 19, 2020 at 17:46 | vote | accept | GridAlien | ||
| Feb 16, 2020 at 0:05 | answer | added | EDL | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 22:03 | comment | added | A. I. Breveleri | "rocket assisted bolts". "shaped charge heads". "Wookiee bowcaster". | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 20:47 | comment | added | Mazura | The premise is questionable but without it we'd just be talking about crossbows. | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 18:32 | answer | added | David G. | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 16:54 | comment | added | Richard Smith | I feel that the premises of your question are highly unlikely. People have tried to ban weapons throughout history, and have usually failed. If any country refuses to use the best weapons, then it will be at a huge disadvantage compared to any which do, and will thus probably be conquered. | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 6:46 | answer | added | user1167758 | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 6:34 | comment | added | conduit_unsteady_frisbee | rail gun, they improve the cross bow so much that it is now a rail gun, maybe propel anything | |
| Feb 15, 2020 at 1:26 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 14, 2020 at 21:59 | answer | added | Nosajimiki | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 19:30 | answer | added | Thucydides | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 18:36 | comment | added | Starfish Prime | If gunpowder exists, someone is gonna work out artillery. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:54 | comment | added | John | define rejected guns, do they accept explosively propelled arrows, air rifles, flechette guns? | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:49 | comment | added | levininja | This isn't an answer to your original question so I'll just post it as a comment. I think one important implication of a society that doesn't have guns, and therefore cannons, and therefore no effective anti-aircraft weapons, but does have modern tech for helicopters/planes and does allow rockets/explosives, would make air superiority key. An airplane can quickly napalm hundreds of troops with their crossbows which would be hopelessly out of range. I don't think they would have a counter to bomber planes besides other (fighter) planes. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:37 | comment | added | Alexander | I don't have a answer, but would point to a detail that this world would lack cannons. This should have a profound implication on warfare in XV-XVII centuries, when crossbow could still be competitive against arquebus, but cannons completely outclassed catapults and ballistae, and walled castles had become irrelevant. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:33 | answer | added | Dragongeek | timeline score: 9 | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:30 | answer | added | Zeiss Ikon | timeline score: 13 | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:29 | answer | added | Plutian | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:24 | comment | added | GridAlien | @Alexander, yes, eventually. After some heated debates. | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:22 | comment | added | Alexander | Do they still allow rockets and explosives? | |
| Feb 14, 2020 at 17:17 | history | asked | GridAlien | CC BY-SA 4.0 |