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[Notshauna]

On earth it took around 500 years to go from the invention of gunpowder to the first firearms, and anything that could be a modern gun didn't come for another century. Even then it wasn't until the late 1800s (a millennium after the invention of gunpowder) where a firearm could surpass a bow in the hands of a professional soldier, and since Qunari soldiers are professional it would take a great deal of development for guns to be militarily beneficial. Even then it's very possible that the Qunari would take even longer to develop such weaponry, because the origin of both crossbow and gun development is due to their relative ease to use in comparison to bows, in a culture with only professional soldiers such weaponry would have little value.

[BloodyTalon]

Given they are advance enough to have ships with mounted cannons stands to reason they are highly advance in some areas. If I recall right cannons for ships came much later then ones for forts and emplacements, so they most likely have the tech needed for flied cannons of some kind.

Now firearms on the other hand could have a different devolpment cycles and they seem to like being up close and personal for the most part. OR using thrown weapons like spears and javalins. And if I recall right don't they live in a jungle, hand heiled firearms could take a bit longer to devolpment in such everiments cause of dampness and could be render unrealilable more easily.

I say they are most likely most advance in ship designs and weapons having to do with such styles of combat, we have yet to see a full sample of how they do ground war. But if DA 2 indecates how they do things, they  may favor light troops, combine with heavy up close and personal shock troops, and skirmiers with thrown weapons.

Given they also guard the gunpowder closely, it stands to reason they may not be making many hand held firearms. Easier for it to fall into the hands of their foes or the grey ones to run off with it.

Just my two bits and sorry for errors and typos.

[Sifr]

The Qunari are only as advanced as they are because they've never suffered a Blight before in their lands, so they've never had to rebuild from scratch. Coupled with their aversion to magic meaning they're more likely to find scientific solutions to a problem, that gives them quite a bit of a headstart on the technological ladder.

 

The only race that comes close to the Qunari is the Dwarves, who have also had to compensate for their lack the ability to use magic, but have been stymied by losing most of their Empire to the Darkspawn horde, so their focus is now more on defence than invention. It's worth noting however that the Dwarves have apparently figured out rudimentary clockwork and steam-power, iirc?

 

However, while gunpowder and cannons are going to be useful, handheld guns are going to be fairly worthless in this setting and so I don't see the Qunari putting much stock in them, if they even exist at all. Consider that the best marksman even in the 19th century could only reload and fire a rifle 3-4 times in a minute, how useful is that really going to be when you have enemy archers or mages raining arrows and fireballs down upon your troops? Especially when the accuracy is so dismal that you're unlikely to even be able to hit anything, unless you've figured out rifling?

[sunnydxmen]

i bet they have guns bazookas.

[9TailsFox]

Qunari have canons on ships but use throwing spears and swords with minimal armour. Qunari in nutshell.

 

[OptionFour]

Qunari have canons on ships but use throwing spears and swords with minimal armour. Qunari in nutshell.

 

 

 

I could be wrong, I haven't played DA2 in ages, but weren't the ground forces that we saw there just crashed sailors? I know they came to Kirkwall looking for their book, but none the less, they were sailors not heavy infantry, or cavalrymen, or something like that. I'm sure that Ferelden sailors don't run around in heavy plate either.

 

We've actually seen very, very little of the Qunari from which to judge how their entire military functions, and how its equipped.

[Nukekitten]

I could be wrong, I haven't played DA2 in ages, but weren't the ground forces that we saw there just crashed sailors?

They have role based castes and some of the castes you ran across were soldiers, Saarebas, Arvaarad, etc. Which would suggest to me that they weren't just crashed sailors as much as they were a strike force being transported by ship.