We may want to look into developing a pepperbox revolver, to give our sailors an edge when boarding and our soldiers one while fighting in close quarters, but itll be low priority.
I'd rather go with Collier's flintlock revolvers when they arrive or actually, since the idea was well known since, like 16th century (the only problem was their price and complexity)
The keyword being price. Pepperbox revolvers where something like a fifth the cost of a revolver and far, far easier to manufacture. Plus we can always do something interesting like allow the barrels to be removed and a fresh set put in.
Lindner Carbine implies paper cartridges, I belive that flintlock works with those, as does with revolvers and we could somehow make it work with breech loading, but that might be tricky as most breech loaded flintlocks tend to explode.
Fair enough. We probably will want percussion caps sooner than later anyways though.
They probably won't challenge us but we can't really challenge them. I support the Watt engine, we could revise our wagon ways to use it and have basically made trains, or we could use our revision for better/more ammo types.
Main problem with the trains is going to be weight, steam engines are heavy bastards, we may want to wait until we get steel for trains. While I agree it is something we will want, probably within the next decade, I dont think we need it quite yet.
Perhaps we should try a simple percussion cap pistol of some flavor next turn to get the tech(preferably multi-shot instead of a single shot, and pepperbox over revolver to reduce cost), then use it for a new rifle, upgrading our cannons, possibly a new ship at that point, then steam engine. Possibly swap engine and ship.