Quote Originally Posted by factotum View Post
That's in real life, I thought the discussion was revolving around the idea that weapons like you've just described simply couldn't ever be developed in this fantasy world?
Was it? I thought we were limited to modern stuff that didn't include modern chemistry and electronics but def including metallurgy. That means airguns are totally on the table (I posted about Napoleanic air rifles on the first page) and at least naptha style weapons that existed in medieval times. An armored ship with any sort of launchable flame weapon is going to clean up wooden cities.

@Aeson cannister refers to the rounds being in a cannister of some sort to keep them grouped together in flight, the rounds are over an inch in width. The rounds got smaller in the mid-Ninteenth century as the cannister got more solid instead of wood and ropes, but they are not small rounds. Grape is literally just packed rounds fired at close range from the cannon, the size is in the name.