RE: "Aiiiiiii...m....fiiiiiiiiiiii..a"
June 20, 2020 at 8:44 am
(This post was last modified: June 20, 2020 at 8:45 am by downbeatplumb.)
(June 20, 2020 at 7:38 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 20, 2020 at 7:29 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: ‘Ready...point the business end of your weapon in the the general direction of the bad guys and hope for the best...fire!’Some sequences used "level". Marksmanship with smooth bores was not a thing.
Boru
Or "present".
5 shots a minute for a brit, 3 for the French.
We used lines while they fought in columns so we made better use of manpower.
(June 20, 2020 at 8:40 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote:(June 20, 2020 at 8:11 am)onlinebiker Wrote: Matchlocks had sights fer crissakes...
And they were accurate?
No that's why you had to have a mass of men together.
Only the rifles had any sort of accuracy and they were a bugger to load.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.