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MrHobit1234 wrote: High King Ithilion wrote: The incendiary or explosive weapons for the "bad guys" is a direct descendant of Tolkien's service in the Great War, where he saw explosives, artillery, and bombs literally tear men apart. I doubt he would have his good factions use weapons he saw as so entirely evil.

Ithilion, Discussions Moderator (Auta i lómë) It'd be interesting to see his views on the American strategy; a combination of shotguns, men, and mass artillery.

Hobit, Chief of the Inquisition (Inform me of heretics) Not really interesting, actually. All sides used massed artillery and lots of men (Kitchener's New Army, for example. Nothing but men for the meat grinders.) The Trench Gun was DEFINITELY interesting, in that the Germans actually asked the Americans to stop using it on the grounds of it being a war crime.

Needless to say, the Americans didn't stop using them.

Regardless, not every man had a shotgun, the other armies had them as well (most likely), everyone went medieval on the other guys and used things like maces and knives and actual, barbarian-style clubs for close-quarters trench fights, and you could shoot down grenades with the trench gun.

No, the last one isn't particularly relevant. But it's cool, right?

As for the topic at hand, no, the good guys don't need such weapons.