Air Rifles

"Someday, for the Third Time". Ikta Solork leads a company of soldiers to retake a supply base that was overrun by the Sinack rebels. To soften them up, he equips Torway Remeon's sharpshooters with newly invented rifled air guns. Previously, the elemental spirit-powered air guns used in the setting were smoothbores with an effective range of about 40 meters. Rifling the barrel, a technique newly discovered by Ikta's exiled mentor, quintuples the effective range, allowing Torway's fireteam to graduate from mere gunners to true snipers, and eliminate the Sinack artillerymen without any possibility of return fire. This lets Ikta retake the fort with almost no casualties.

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Fantastic Firearms