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Now, this is vital.
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Wearing the fingerstall, you insert
the right forefinger into the vent.
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This prevents air from being expelled
when the shot is loaded...
:13:17
...which could be disastrous.
:13:20
Bang!
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A premature discharge,
causing burns and even death.
:13:27
I had a colleague die that way.
:13:30
Next occurs the 'ranging' of the gun.
This involves four techniques:
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1 : Quadrant. 2: Tangent scale.
3: Breech sight...
:13:39
...and 4: pendulum hausse.
You learned these yesterday.
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Questions?
:13:46
Yes?
:13:47
This book says
the English 'Armstrong' cannon...
:13:51
...has a vent piece, so you don't
have to stick your finger in it.
:13:56
It costs more.
:13:59
One Armstrong costs as much as
500 of your old matchlocks.
:14:05
Wars now are won by
the most expensive weaponry.
:14:09
By money. Such is the age
that is upon us.
:14:13
Sensei...
:14:14
Yes?
:14:15
I'm sorry, but...
:14:17
...I haven't the foggiest idea
what you're talking about.
:14:23
It'd help if you'd speak
the way we're used to...
:14:27
He can't!
:14:29
Then why get an instructor
from Edo?
:14:32
Could you at Ieast translate
all those English and Dutch words?
:14:37
They put my head in a whirl.
:14:42
The Ionger I sit the stupider I feel!
:14:48
You find this amusing?
:14:51
Is this a time for Ievity?
:14:53
To prepare you to face an emergency
with modern artillery...
:14:58
...your clan has summoned me
from Edo to this backwater!