I get you now. I wrote the ghoul choice in a way that implies nobody gets executed and everyone gets ghouled, which does clash with the choice at the end of Chapter Three. I will get around to rephrasing that sometime.
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Sure enough. Just replace the tank with a field gun for a proper Fourth Legion experience.
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I like how that implies that the logistics are so bad they cant even arm their soldiers with firearms 
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Perhaps that’ll be something we can fix
after the war
or we could make it worse for the funni.
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Next thing you know the Jovian legionnaires are fighting with sticks and stones
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I mean, we’re poking fun at the Republic’s military here. I imagine Natrun as having relatively decent logistics, if only because they have to arm fewer soldiers and deal with smaller distances.
I applaud you for managing to spell “legionnaires” correctly. I always manage to mess this word up.
Maybe that’s where my disdain for ancient rome comes from.
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by their standards?
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Well, our character does complain about petitioners trying to backseat us by giving us such suggestions as, among other things, giving firearms to all of our soldiers, so take that as you will
Of course. Nothing in this universe is efficient by any sane standard.
Their exact request was to “replace all swords with firearms” which probably isn’t as good of an idea as it sounds. Swords are sidearms—any soldier equipped with one would already have a main weapon, such as a rifle or a submachine. If they stop using it, that’s either because they ran out of ammo or because their enemy can only be engaged in melee, and giving them more guns is just an expensive way to not address the issue.
In a world were anti-gun technology had a thousand years and a half to develop, replacing all swords with firearms would be like telling a samurai to replace his katana with a second bow. Sure, his new sidearm is a great weapon and probably one he’s more familiar with, but that doesn’t make it good at being a sidearm.
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I….I think you just ran through the logic of the development of the bayonet, without arriving at the bayonet and deciding keeping the sword as a sidearm was a better idea…
And I mean bayonets got pretty long, even when they weren’t literal sword bayonets, the blade on the british ww1 bayonet was 43cm:
I am being very very pedantic though, it’s a space fantasy setting where glorified air conditioners are gods and sapient and they hate you, the swords are fine.
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I dont think he would do as you say
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Oh Perun, they dont even know what a bayonet is
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In the author’s defense, the suggestion “replace all swords with firearms” wasn’t “replace all swords with firearms AND bayonets”
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