Why has Azeroth's artillery technology never entered the era of hot weapons despite being so advanced?
Because of mithril.
Not to mention the hapless stuff of Thorium, the mature Thorium smelting technology is in the hands of the dwarves and they use it to extract a large amount of foreign exchange from humans every year. If it weren't for the Ironforge regime, which has always been in a state of trade deficit with the countries of Lordaeron. , the fragile friendship between humans and dwarves has long since disappeared.
The grudges between humans and Thorium are too complicated to ignore, but the mature mithril smelting and forging processing technology destined Azeroth to completely enter the era of thermal weapons.
If armor could protect against shrapnel, who wouldn't want to be a tough man in hand-to-hand combat...
"So why are there so many guns and ammunition in the country?"
When Fang Brick arrived in Anhador with enough muskets to arm 30,000 people for half a year, Carlos had some WTF impulse.
"Because Master, there was a lot of pressure in the country during the years when you were missing."
Brick replied.
Terenas Menethil II, the true political great of Lordaeron.
When he wants to be friends with you, all you feel is his meticulous care, and you may even have the illusion that heaven and earth are working together. But when Terenas starts targeting someone, that's when the road becomes truly difficult.
Alex Barov quietly went to the opposite side of his old friend for the sake of his son's kingdom.
Once upon a time, Kadaba thought that Terenas was just lucky enough to be born into the Menethil family and that he was no worse than him.
However, after ten years of political confrontation, the Grand Duke Regent of Alterac had to admit that by playing tricks, he was ultimately inferior to his father-in-law.
However, although Alex Barov admitted that he was no match for Terenas Menethil II in politics, as an outstanding politician second only to him, he would not give in easily.
In this implicit confrontation, the Grand Duke Regent revised the domestic development plans left by his son.
Guns are brought into homes and soldiers are hidden among the people. Except for military weapons such as large-caliber artillery, crossbows, and enchanted armor, the Kingdom of Alterac does not prohibit the circulation of any "civilian weapons" in the country.
Come on, make a mess. If you can annex Alterac, I will leave you with a mess filled with mobs.
In order to maintain the family's dominance, the Grand Duke Regent started the process of mobization across the country.
It does not prohibit the circulation of weapons in the country, and by strengthening the status of military personnel, it relies on prestige and power to maintain its status.
It is said that doing so is very dangerous. As long as the external pressure subsides, domestic riots will inevitably occur.
But so what, the consequences of losing the country are much more terrible than a few riots, and Alex doesn't care at all.
So under this guiding principle, during the years when Carlos disappeared, the national foundry alone produced mountains of weapons and equipment, not counting the private industries of noble men of all sizes.
Anyway, the Barov family, the eldest brother who takes the lead, plays this way. Arms and bad money are neither in vain nor in vain.
"These weapons are only one-tenth of the national armory. There are four batches of arms of this size that can be pulled out from the basement of Keldaron Lake Center Castle. The same size is almost the same in Alterac City. Bar."
Brick explained.
So Carlos immediately selected a car, cut open the tarpaulin, and pried off the packaging covers one by one...
Good guys, flintlock muskets, hand cannons, three-stringed wrath, longbows, explosive arrows, grenades, landmines, fire oil...
"You said these are civilian supplies?"
"Well, it's for civilian use and can be sold directly for money."
Well, this is awesome. The only criterion for testing civilian and military use is whether it can be directly sold for money? !
"Let's send it out. First arm the 20,000 volunteers we have recruited."
"OK."
After returning to Azeroth from the star realm, Carlos has been traveling around, but he has never really bent down to look at his kingdom, so that this scene made him feel an absurd sense of alienation.
Is this my Alterac?
"Where's the artillery, and where's the heavy bed crossbow?"
Carlos felt something was wrong and asked one more question.
"In the campaign against the Arathi orcs, most of the ordnance was transferred to Tarren Mill. Otherwise, how do you think they won the battle and dragged these big guys on a hasty march?"
What you get on paper is ultimately shallow, but the logistics list is extremely heavy.
When he was in Arathi, there were 70,000 mouths and Alterac had a large number of cavalry. The food transportation pressure of people eating and horses chewing was too great and occupied too much logistics capacity. Carlos had not deliberately paid attention to this problem.
Now that Anhador is engaged in a defensive war, Carlos really has a real feeling for the word militarism.
Internal battles and a mature road transportation system. Although there was chaos for a few days due to the assassination of Kadie and his coma, the Kingdom of Alterac finally showed the power of order after recovering. Communicate with Alterac City through spells. Dad guarantees that at least twenty heavy artillery pieces will be shipped out of Alterac City every day. As for swords, armors, etc., just go to the armory to adjust the inventory, or even siege tanks. Yes, they are all arranged by my son on the front line.
There was no way around it. The Hillsbrad enclosure plan had offended too many powerful people in Lordaeron. Apart from large livestock such as war horses, the Kingdom of Alterac only had its smelting industry to be competitive within the alliance.
Alterac, which has always been in short supply of food, needs to import supplies from within the alliance every year. The Barov family is not a gold mine. In order to earn foreign exchange through exports, they must bite their fist industries and not let go.
Expect to make money from iron farm tools?
Too slow and too little profit.
Military industry is the way to go!
Even the Bronzebeard dwarves of Ironforge invested in an assembly plant in Alterac.
The Alliance purchases a certain amount of engineering equipment from the dwarves every year.
Therefore, the dwarves directly transport core components such as steam engines, high-precision gears, and high-torque bearings from Ironforge, and place orders for the remaining accessories such as armor plates from Alterac, thus eliminating a large amount of costs. transportation costs and improved profit margins.
society society, capital capital.
No wonder the Scourge wanted to overthrow Dalaran immediately. The Kirin Tor, whose homes were not confiscated, would have been able to get out a hundred thousand arcane bombs!
Some didn't think about it, it was Carlos's last leisure before the war.
The forwards of the Scourge have arrived at the outskirts of Anhador. In order to prevent contamination by the plague, a large number of wheat fields were burned under the order of Carlos.
The only good news is that due to the speed of the march, Alsace did not rush forward in a rush, but patiently removed the peripheral strongholds and waited for the large number of Bone Army to arrive.
"Master, don't you ask me why?"
Fang Bian found an opportunity and finally couldn't help but ask.
"I won't ask, it hurts my feelings."
Carlos answered flatly.
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