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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]].
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The province of [[Nuln]] is respected across the [[Empire]] as the home to the finest [[handgun]]s and [[war machines]], save for those constructed by the [[Dwarfs]].  This reputation is largely thanks to the '''Imperial Gunnery School'''.
  
This makes them a desired commodity for any Imperial army using cannonry and as such
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== Overview ==
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.
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Graduates from the School are highly prized for their skills in maintaining the war machines and, in battle, training artillery on vulnerable targets with unerring accuracy.
  
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
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Perhaps the most surprising fact is that the 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 such as [[von Meinkopt]], creator of the Hellblaster, and Pfielmann, inventor of the Grenade Launching Blunderbuss) were taught, or the Gunnery School’s neighbouring College in Nuln. Once the Colleges of Engineering create a war machine, the Imperial Gunnery School then start training gunners to use them.
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.
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This creates a high demand for their services with only a limited number available at any one time. In spite of this demand, the School refuses to lower its standards, concentrating on producing a small corps of highly skilled gunners and engineers, rather than churning out a large body of sub-standard graduates barely capable of knowing which end of the cannon the ball comes out of.
  
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
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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 to their families' noble titles. Graduates are given the choice of staying on for further study (perhaps eventually becoming [[Master Gunner]]s) or returning home. For some, the prospect of yet more years of study will send them home to fight as an army’s pistoliers or outriders.
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.
 
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.
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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 reputation is largely thanks to the Imperial Gunnery School.

Overview

Graduates from the School are highly prized for their skills in maintaining the war machines and, in battle, training artillery on vulnerable targets with unerring accuracy.

Perhaps the most surprising fact is that the 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 such as von Meinkopt, creator of the Hellblaster, and Pfielmann, inventor of the Grenade Launching Blunderbuss) were taught, or the Gunnery School’s neighbouring College 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. In spite of this demand, the School refuses to lower its standards, concentrating on producing a small corps of highly skilled gunners and engineers, rather than churning out a large body of sub-standard graduates barely capable of knowing which end of the cannon the ball comes out of.

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 to their families' noble titles. Graduates are given the choice of staying on for further study (perhaps eventually becoming Master Gunners) or returning home. For some, the prospect of yet more years of study will send them home 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.

Sources

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