Handgun

Handguns are black powder weapons consisting of a metal barrel mounted on a wooden stock. The crudest versions are little more than small, hand-held cannons, which the user fires by poking a length of burning cord, known as a match, into a small touch-hole to ignite the charge. More advanced versions have firing mechanisms (locks) which use levers and springs to mechanize the firing process. The most advanced of these use self-ignition mechanisms (such as flintlocks) which remove the need for a match. Handguns have relatively long range, and can penetrate some of the thickest armour.^[1a]

Users of handguns

• Dwarf troops armed with handguns are called Thunderers, due the noise of their weapons. Their lead shot can take down a Troll, or a fully armoured knight.^[1b]
• In the Empire, handguns are often manufactured by skilled gunsmiths in Nuln. State Troops armed with handguns are named Handgunners.^[2]
• During his reign, Tzar Boris Ursus of Kislev imported black-powder from the Empire.^[3b] As a result, the Boyars of Kislev can be armed with handguns.^[3a]

Sources

• 1: Warhammer Rulebook (7th Edition)
  • 1a: pg. 57
  • 1b: pg. 180
• 2: Warhammer Armies: The Empire (7th Edition), pg. 37
• 3: Warhammer Armies: Kislev (6th Edition)
  • 3a: pg. 10
  • 3b: pg. 14