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The province of [[Nuln]] is respected across the Empire
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The province of [[Nuln]] is respected across the [[Empire]]
 
as the home to the finest handguns and war
 
as the home to the finest handguns and war
machines, save for those constructed by the Dwarfs.
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machines, save for those constructed by the [[Dwarfs]].
 
This makes them a desired commodity for any
 
This makes them a desired commodity for any
 
Imperial army using cannonry and as such
 
Imperial army using cannonry and as such

Revision as of 13:45, 3 February 2011

The province of Nuln is respected across the Empire as the home to the finest handguns and war machines, save for those constructed by the Dwarfs. This makes them a desired commodity for any Imperial army using cannonry and as such graduates from the Imperial Gunnery School are highly prized for their skills in training artillery on vulnerable targets with unerring accuracy and maintaining the war machines. Perhaps the most surprising fact is that the Imperial Gunnery School does not create new weapons of war. Such tasks are executed by the College of Engineering, either the well known one in Altdorf, where luminaries as von Meinkopt (creator of the Hellblaster) and Pfielmann (Grenade Launching Blunderbuss) were taught, or the Gunnery School’s neighbouring one in Nuln. Once the[[ Colleges of Engineering]] create a war machine, the Imperial Gunnery School then start training gunners to use them. This creates a high demand for their services with only a limited number available at any one time. Yet this demand has still led to the school refusing to lower its standards to concentrate on producing better skilled gunners and engineers, rather than a lot of sub-standard graduates barely capable of knowing which end of the cannon shoots the balls out. Most of the students at the school come from the Imperial nobility, sons who show talents in mathematics or an interest in things that go boom, as well as not being immediately in line for succession. Once they graduate, students are given the choice of staying in the school for further studies (and eventually becoming a Master Gunner) or returning home. For some the prospect of yet more years of studies will send them home where they will go on to fight as an army’s pistoliers or outriders. Those who remain will attain the pinnacle of their craft and get to watch their former trainees charge across the battlefield, often to their deaths.