dwemer didnt have cannons they used the forbidden machina you know like those ballista walkers you usually see outside there ruins

That's not true. They settled all over Tamriel. There are going to be Dwemer ruins in Skyrim.

There were satchel charges in Morrowind so given how smart the Dwemer were I'm pretty sure they weren't far off creating firearms. I say yes...yes please to Dwarven cannons. Ornate, finely-crafted walking Dwarven cannons.

I think it would make an interesting quest to recover some lost weapon that could shoot down dragons for a city or village to defend themselves when the Dragon-born is off stealing the counts underpants.

Sorry for the Fable 3 reference.

No canons

*ahem*

aliens and lasers


:banana:

No. Simple fact, they weren't "close to" the level of technology needed to build firearms, they had the necessary levels of technology. But- the critical issue isn't could they create firearms, but would they and the answer to that is "no." Their only concern was creating their machine god, which is why they had bows, crossbows, ballistae, no guns- and functioning robots. It was never an issue of "can't."

Yes to cannons. Immense, scorched brass, smoking, hell-spewing cannons of dragon-obliterating death-dealing technological might!

I wouldn't mind firing one of those Dwemer ballistae while fighting off a dragon at a ruin, either.

No, Catapults and ballistas on the other hand, yes

This is TES. Not Fallout or Fable. :thumbsdown:

Stop typing canon, it's cannon!
A canon is a type of song sang in choirs.

You kids are completely lost without your spelling correctors, eh?

Dwemer don't make guns, trough the create balistas bows crossbows and dart throwing mechanisms thats use steam

There is a dwemer ballista in Morrowind. Can't remember which ruin though !

Oh look a semantic troll! There is a difference between a sack of gunpowder and an effective weapon - just ask the ancient Chinese. They had firecrackers but still never invented guns. Sure, they had flamestick things that shot missles but that's not a firearm like the kind we're all talking about and you know it. And you can't possibly answer the question question as to whether they would or not - they're so profoundly alien that any normal man or mer couldn't ever predict what they would do. Therefore, the only question left is the issue of can/cannot. Would/would not is not able to be answered.

They were extremely inventive and technological, even if it was unintentional it would only have been a matter of time before one of them stumbled into the idea. Theres also not really much info on them at all so even saying they didnt have guns is opinion, they might very well have had guns and canons and theyre just still burried somewhere.

Are Dwemer cannons canon?

I think the Dwarves already had steam powered ballistae... so I would imagine they would actually be rather fast. And badass.

The dwemer had radios, I think they could do a canon, they aren't idiots. That's just my opinion, though.. I do not have the raging "medieval purity hardon" quite so big as many people.

Ballistas would be fine too, I hope we'll need to kill dragons with something other than our hands. They are 10 tonne fire breathing flying monsters, I don't think they'd be that easy to kill with any sort of melee weapon, really.. even if I am the DRAGONBORN(!!!) mass dragon slayer. :rolleyes:

"Argh, matey! They be coming from the starboard bow! Fire them cannons and swap the poop-deck!"... Let's leave cannons to Serious Sam, shall we?

i wouldn't mind spearing a dragon witha balista

For the people complaining how cannons are not part of TES, I'd like to say that, yes they are. They can be found in Redguard, and have been mentioned in Daggerfall.
Also blackpowder was commonly used in the middle ages.

Now I can see with all these people knowing how to throw fireballs from their hands, blackpowder based weaponry pretty much became useless, but there's no reason to think why there shouldn't be cannons in the game.

Other than that I don't know how cannons are useful against flying dragons...

Wait, Redguards have cannons and people complain how primitive guns wouldn't fit TES?

Those are just my thoughts:

There is this impression on the people : Firearms are weapons that rendered any other weapons useless in war.Now,that may be true for the real world,but it doesn't have to apply to fantasy settings.But for it to work,it has to be implemented correctly and from the very beginning I think.Not having those "advanced weaponry" from the beginning but having it in the next game will make people FEEL other kinds of weapons useless,thus severing bonds to the previous games and killing the "TES atmosphere".
It's not the functionality but the looks.As stated before,magic works as expolsives and missiles.But having the explosion from a staff feels different from an explosion from a RPG,even though if they were to deal the same damage to the same area with the same graphics in the game.
That being said,putting two pieces of stick(good looking ones please) at the nozzle of the cannon,thus turning it into a ballista (looks-wise) but keeping the same function would collect more fans than cannon version.

As for me,I wouldn't like any guns I think.

The Dwemer had quantum phys..err I mean "tonal architects", but no gunpowder.