@Eduard Garfella For what feels like the hundredth time, it’s not so much about assembling them anachronistically or not for me as I am likely going use these guys for fantasy myself.
No its more about getting a decent number and variety of wheellock pistols so we are not stuck with just one gun on a cavalry sprue and every “You have a wheel lock in conquistador cavalry set, we wants more Death Fields” hammerhead or “eh, there’s enough wheellocks on the conquistador cavalry sprue, focus on other X history subject instead” on FB and the forum trying justify not doing more varied wheel lock sets which just based on past experience is what can happen (it has for other things like this).
My point is if wheellocks are going to be done they should be done right as a main part with at least one for each figure planned on sprue by WA themselves from conception, not as some one to a sprue “begged for by impatient hammerheads making WFB shelf armies ” after thought part which is likely only going to be one sad little arm as it in a set that shouldn’t even have guns and WILL NOT actually satisfy the people who have been wanting real historical wheellock subjects in decent numbers in multipart plastic for decades (regardless of what they plan to use it for).
This cavalry set is just a bad set for doing wheellocks since it won’t show them off properly or do them anywhere near the numbers most folks actually want them in. We should hold out for reaiters or knights of Malta or something else that will do better justice for wheellocks, and I say this because if the one to two pistols in the conquistador cavalry set are wheellocks, it more than likely that is all the wheellock pistols WA will do, at least for the next decade if not forever, there won’t be anymore.
Do you understand NOW!
@Indy Techwisp Yes I am aware Japan didn't adopt pistol cavalry, why would they when they had the tradition of horse archers which are better than pistoleers till maybe colt revolvers came into play and even then not much of an advantage as far as I can tell. I even thought I hinted at that with the whole "insulting our Europeans ancestors horsemanship" part I wrote😆.
The Japanese did make matchlock pistols though and while its true piracy in Asia was multinational as far as who did it, Japan was a main arms supplier for them and a big base of operations for pirates. The Philippines where another big operational base for piracy, often by the same japanese armed pirates (meaning them getting a hold of matchlock pistols for personal sidearm use is possible) and the Spanish did later in the 16th century conquer and deal with the pirates in the Philippines. (ie, I am thinking more on foot character kitbashs with that argument, the pistol is an afterthought part added due to hammerheads asking for it).
Honestly though, the main argument for the matchlock is that 90% of the people asking for a pistol on this sprue are ask for WFB reasons and if a wheel lock is added here, it will likely be a poor showing compared to more focused set and because it’s a wheellock there probably won’t be any other wheellock sets coming out of WA (at least not for 16th century Western Europeans). A matchlock pistol, which is more of a fantasy gun in a set like this is less likely to cause polling issues and arguements against other wheellock pistol sets getting made down later on (best for this would be pistols not being added at all to this set, but the majority has spoken and inserted thier foot in their collective mouth on that front🙄).
Finally to both of you, no, with pistoleers, reiters, dragoons and even near firing line cavalry in any and every country that used them (not just Japan) had to either deafen the warhorses to ride them or breed new warhorses that wouldn't spook at gunfire, admittedly the old warhorse breeds likely had advantages over the more common breeds in this regards, but it was still an issue even with them🙄.
Honestly, from everything I have heard and read horses where hard to use in war and horse using armies had issues regardless of the era just in general, there was one ancient era battle that got canceled just because one side used only stallions and the other mares, and the horse were more focused on making love not war.😆
