He smiled against her skins, "you are not the only one to suggest it. and I do know bullets hurt. It would be illogical not to have the warriors use them. I just won't." He didn't like them. And he had too many bad memories attached to them.
He shook his head, "no, them." He pointed at the map. "I'm not that cruel to punish my people if luck falls against them. But my people and I have a reputation." One he fostered and made sure to keep alive. "And they know it. If my enemy loses, they die. It makes them desperate."