"Oh, Mother Goddess."
In the spirit of "balance," while Albion was tinkering with the Schneider rifle, and Roland was testing the Chassepot rifle, the merchant of death V.E also provided the Duchy with a new type of bolt-action rifle—the infamous Dreyse needle gun.
The Dreyse M1841 model firing pin rifle is a... how should I put it? It's a "famous firearm" that, in various ways, broke the mold thanks to Mr. John Nikolaus von Dreyse's rather imaginative ideas.
