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well, musket's didn't have much of one. a good spear-chucker could probably out-range them. well, maybe not the bullet's total range, but it's effective range as far as hitting what your aiming at is concerned.

that might be his point.

[ January 08, 2004, 05:08: Message edited by: narf poit chez BOOM ]

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Out of all the scripts they commissioned for Series II, only one made it to STNG. Any one remember the episode where the women changes into the Klingon devil and trys to claim ownership over an entire planet? </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Actually, IIRC, two scripts were combined to make ST:TMP. But I still think it was a two hour remake of the Changeling episode.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">The range of smooth bore muskets was utterly pitiful, not to mention the cloud that obscured visibility.

But what can you say, the certainly did kill those poor savages in great numbers and for what, gold. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon9.gif

Back in those days they were savages to killing them was "ok" by order of the church. Go figure, if you were to add up all of the deaths that have been "ok" in the name of God under some religion, you would discover you couldn't count that high in your life time.

I think religion was invented to thin the herd.

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God is the number one cause of death throughout history, afterall.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">again, it's ambitious leader's who were probably athiests and intollerance.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">again, it's ambitious leader's who were probably athiests and intollerance. </font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Many ambitious and great leaders, thinkers, doers, and etc had belonged to a certain religion, and some were even devout.

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Well, ya learn something new every day, I guess. I knew those old muskets were nowhere near as good as what we have today, but I never realized they were quite that bad. So the natives lost to fear and surprise more than they did to superior weaponry.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">indeed. and not all of them were evil. i might also point out that evil people tend to worship themselves.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">And to the steel currais that the conquistadors wore, which deflected arrows and spears rather well. And then the belief (initially) that they were ancient gods returned.

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<font size="2" face="sans-serif, arial, verdana">Most ambitious leaders throughout history have been rather religious.