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So, I’ve had this idea which doesn’t fit in my world (I’ve only got humans), but I thought it was neat so here it is: Dwarves would invent bullpup firearms and here is why....
I’m actually thinking about including this in my current worldbuilding project. In my universe, dwarves have a particular talent for enchanting magic, runes and wards. This allows them to create advanced pieces of machinery that would otherwise be impossible.
They use this magic to create a dedicated headgear for their musketeers, which includes hearing protection, flash protection, air filtering, and enhanced night vision. There’s a whole sub-story about those headgears evolving into basically power armors over the decades, to the point that they eventually become too over-enginereed and expensive to be actually viable in warfare.
In addition, after a certain point in development, only mages could actually use those armors. This led to the muskets being modified to channel magic too, thus they couldn’t be used by a normal dwarf anymore either.
My world is more in a Pike and Shot era militarily speaking, as there isn’t magic capable of blowing up formations, artillery is still too primitive to do a lot of damage, and magic beasts like dragons maintain the usefulness of dedicated pikemen formations.
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So, I’ve had this idea which doesn’t fit in my world (I’ve only got humans), but I thought it was neat so here it is: Dwarves would invent bullpup firearms and here is why....