> When I think steampunk/late 1800's, I think British, and .58-cal is "more > British" than .45-cal.
The British used Gatlings in .450 Gardner-Gatling and .650 Gatling exclusively. There never was a British Gatling in .58-calibre. > > Also worth noting that Steampunk, Old West and High-Tech list the Gatling > gun as .58-cal in the weapon tables. OLD WEST and STEAMPUNK both copied it straight from HIGH-TECH, and HIGH-TECH is simply wrong -- including regarding most of the stats. (This has been corrected in the upcoming HIGH-TECH Fourth Edition, which has a much more detailed section on the Gatling than the earlier editions.) Gatling built a grand total of thirteen (13) guns in the .58-calibre chambering mentioned in HIGH-TECH Third Edition. (The ones ordered by Turkey were a later design made in .58 Turkish Snider.) At least according to Chinn THE MACHINE GUN Featherstone WEAPONS AND EQUIPMENT OF THE VICTORIAN SOLDIER Hobart THE MACHINE GUN Hogg THE MILITARY SMALL ARMS DATA BOOK Hughes THE GATLING GUN NOTEBOOK Jacobsen THE 1886 MACHINE GUN MANUAL Markham GUNS OF THE EMPIRE Nordenfelt THE NORDENFELT MACHINE GUNS Toppel/Wahl THE GATLING GUN (the definite treatise on the topic) Williams RAPID FIRE Cheers HANS -- "Feel free" - 10 GB Mailbox, 100 FreeSMS/Monat ... Jetzt GMX TopMail testen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/topmail _______________________________________________ GurpsNet-L mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://mail.sjgames.com/mailman/listinfo/gurpsnet-l
