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	== See also ==		== See also ==
	* [[Land Warfare]] · [[Clockwork]] · [[Forgegate#What it makes and trades]]		* [[Land Warfare]] · [[Clockwork]] · [[Forgegate#What it makes and trades]]
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	[[File:~~Skaerflint~~.~~jpg~~\|thumb\|right\|300px\|A Forgegate-locked Skaerflint. The lock is the difference.]]		[[File:Longmuzzelclockworkgun.png\|thumb\|right\|300px\|A Forgegate-locked Skaerflint. The lock is the difference.]]
	The '''Skaerflint''' is the standard weapon of every military in the Known World, made by every city that has smiths. Nobody arms soldiers entirely from a foreign supplier and no one sane would. [[Forgegate]]'s are better than most, and the difference is the lock: a mechanism that takes precision the other cities can match with effort but not at Forgegate's scale, so a great many Skaerflints in the world are locally made stocks and barrels built around a Forgegate-marked lock. [[Clearhold]] makes its own entirely and they are excellent. [[Stormharbor]]'s are heavy, plain, and last for generations.		The '''Skaerflint''' is the standard weapon of every military in the Known World, made by every city that has smiths. Nobody arms soldiers entirely from a foreign supplier and no one sane would. [[Forgegate]]'s are better than most, and the difference is the lock: a mechanism that takes precision the other cities can match with effort but not at Forgegate's scale, so a great many Skaerflints in the world are locally made stocks and barrels built around a Forgegate-marked lock. [[Clearhold]] makes its own entirely and they are excellent. [[Stormharbor]]'s are heavy, plain, and last for generations.

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	[[File:Skaerflint.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|A Forgegate-locked Skaerflint. The lock is the difference.]]		[[File:Skaerflint.jpg\|thumb\|right\|300px\|A Forgegate-locked Skaerflint. The lock is the difference.]]
	The '''Skaerflint''' is the standard weapon of every military in the Known World, made by every city that has smiths. Nobody arms soldiers entirely from a foreign supplier and no one sane would. [[Forgegate]]'s are better than most, and the difference is the lock: a mechanism that takes precision the other cities can match with effort but not at Forgegate's scale, so a great many Skaerflints in the world are locally made stocks and barrels built around a Forgegate-marked lock. [[Clearhold]] makes its own entirely and they are excellent. [[Stormharbor]]'s are heavy, plain, and last for generations.		The '''Skaerflint''' is the standard weapon of every military in the Known World, made by every city that has smiths. Nobody arms soldiers entirely from a foreign supplier and no one sane would. [[Forgegate]]'s are better than most, and the difference is the lock: a mechanism that takes precision the other cities can match with effort but not at Forgegate's scale, so a great many Skaerflints in the world are locally made stocks and barrels built around a Forgegate-marked lock. [[Clearhold]] makes its own entirely and they are excellent. [[Stormharbor]]'s are heavy, plain, and last for generations.

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[[File:Skaerflint.jpg|thumb|right|300px|A Forgegate-locked Skaerflint. The lock is the difference.]]
The '''Skaerflint''' is the standard weapon of every military in the Known World, made by every city that has smiths. Nobody arms soldiers entirely from a foreign supplier and no one sane would. [[Forgegate]]'s are better than most, and the difference is the lock: a mechanism that takes precision the other cities can match with effort but not at Forgegate's scale, so a great many Skaerflints in the world are locally made stocks and barrels built around a Forgegate-marked lock. [[Clearhold]] makes its own entirely and they are excellent. [[Stormharbor]]'s are heavy, plain, and last for generations.

== The one fact ==
It loads at the muzzle, and that single fact decides the shape of warfare in Teraell. A man reloading cannot do it lying flat. Every shot has an exposed moment attached to it and everyone on both sides knows when the moment is coming. This has produced an almost universal doctrine: '''fire by turns'''. One element shoots while another loads and watches. No unit moves without cover from another. A ''[[Lexicon:Modern/Haerman|Haerman]]'' alone is a Haerman in danger, and being separated from your ''[[Lexicon:Modern/Roeta|Roeta]]'' is the most dangerous thing that can happen to you short of being shot.

== The shot ==
Powder fouls the barrel, and rifling would foul worse than a smoothbore if the ball needed something to grip. It does not. The Skaerflint fires a conical shot with a hollow base, cast slightly under the bore so it drops down a dirty barrel without forcing; on firing, the gas expands the base into the rifling. Loose going in, tight going out. That is what makes the weapon both accurate and quick, and why a barrel goes sixty or eighty rounds before it wants attention rather than twenty. What limits sustained fire is the powder and shot a man carries.

== The lock ==
Clockwork lock mechanisms give more reliable ignition than any purely mechanical flintlock, a faster reset between shots, and less sensitivity to weather. The barrel provides the accuracy; the clockwork provides the reliability and rate.

== Rain ==
Rain is the real constraint. A sprung pan cover, a projecting hood over the lock, and a tight cartridge carry a Skaerflint through drizzle and sea spray; none of it carries a man through an hour of steady rain. Eventually the water gets in — on his hands, on his ''[[Lexicon:Modern/Poeddra|Poeddra]]'', into the powder long before it reaches the pan. An army caught in heavy rain is an army using blades.

== See also ==
* [[Land Warfare]] · [[Clockwork]] · [[Forgegate#What it makes and trades]]
[[Category:Warfare and Law]][[Category:Weapons]]