Poll of the Day > Something about the old colonial style of warfare never sat well with me

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Like how the armies are in square formations, line up across from eachother, and shoot.

I kinda feel like if youre in the first row on either side, you dead. Who even got the front line positions? If I was front line I feel like i'd bribe the dude behind me to take my place, and when he automatically dies i'll steal my money back if I too didnt die.

If I recall, it had more to do with how inaccurate rifles were coupled with rate of fire and approaching melee combatants.

By lining up square, the first line could kneel and the second line could have rifles over the shoulders of the first creating a compact firing range. They didn't aim at targets, they just tried to keep an area filled with flying shrapnel. Good units could fire several times a minute if I recall.

kukukupo posted...

If I recall, it had more to do with how inaccurate rifles were coupled with rate of fire and approaching melee combatants.

This.
Line Infantry was a carryover from bowmen formations, but with hilariously worse accuracy.

Questionmarktarius posted...

kukukupo posted...

If I recall, it had more to do with how inaccurate rifles were coupled with rate of fire and approaching melee combatants.

This.
Line Infantry was a carryover from bowmen formations, but with hilariously worse accuracy.

Once armor was taken iff the battlefield a bet you an equal group of archers could take out an equal group of musketmen, the main thing was anybody could be handed a musket and quickly trained while archers had to be trained a lot more.
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