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Originally Posted by Fish In The Water
Indeed, but just imagine if ALL the rifles had a much higher rate of fire. A very chilling prospect...
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yes, you get WW1.
There is a reason the armies fight in 1861 as if it was 1815 and by 1864 are all digging in as if it is 1914.
Up until the Napoleonic war, the main firearm was the smoothbore musket with a maximum effective range of 100 meters. In 1861, rifled firearms with an effective range of 500 meters were standard.
Soldiers very quickly found out that to survive, they had to adopt modern tactics, moving in small groups, using the terrain as protection and later in the war, digging in as soon as they stopped marching.