Question about gunpowder weapon's in mediaval setting.

[Kenjona]

I say nurf the accuracy, then they are much more destructive compared to bow and arrow but need to get in a closer range to be effective.

Even early muzzle loaders had the power to punch though several lightly armered men, and they shoot strait at the enemy where as most arrows will only go though 1 man, and even with more power they are often lofted for more range so they will only get 1.

since guns require specilized processes such as hole boring your average medieval/magic type blacksmith wouldn't be experenced enough to do it, at least not with a decent acuracy weapon as a result.

First accurate versus inaccurate, I am talking about hitting a man sized target, not a bulls eye on a target for accuracy.

Bows after a certain range (when you needed to arc fire) were inaccurate, 75-80 yards for a trained archer would be accurate, past that they were arcing fire and that was inaccurate for even veteran bowmen, so you made up with more arrows (more trained men) being shot at one time.

Colonial/Napoléon era muskets were sort of accurate out to 80-100yards. Several things made early muskets inaccurate, the balls were not fitted to bore size, if it was a .69 caliber musket, the standard ball for it was .60 to .65 caliber. So it was not the aiming of the person shooting it that made it as inaccurate, but that it would come out of the bore unpredictably. They could have fitted snugger bullets (and tried, the Prussians tried possibly the French too if I am remembering correctly), but the recoil increased significantly and it was already mule kick bad (So two mules instead of one kicking the shooter, on people that were generally skinnier and shorter then the average modern day male), the reload times increased significantly, the chances for errors during loading and misfires during shooting increased.

Hit rates for Napoleonic muskets have been studied extensively; in perfect conditions (No wind, clear view, steady aim, well rested shooters, no speed shots, all the time to load needed and no one shooting back) accuracy went as high as 60% to as low as 50% on targets 80 yards away that were 6 feet tall and 10 feet wide. If I remember what I was reading at the time the studies also showed that muskets would misfire 10-30% of the time depending on environmental conditions, wetter/damper and more continuous usage of muskets the worst the misfires would get.

Now all that blather said, that is for a cheap mass produced musket. When you have good powder, good flint, a properly made musket (good wood and metal parts), with ammo properly sized for it, then price for it is about 20 times that of a mass produced musket, and it is orders of magnitude more accurate. Which was what the early colonist militia in America used during the Revolutionary war period. Not talking rifles here just muskets. They did go to cheaply made mass produced muskets towards the end when they got a more continental (European) style army.