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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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The most direct example of such a thing is probably the Austro-Prussian War, in which the Austrian Army, using muzzle loading rifles and tactics designed to counter similarly equipped armies, suffered massive casualties at the hands of the needle gun-equipped Prussians.
By the time the Franco-Prussian War saw the first battles between opposing armies with breech-loading rifles, artillery and early machine guns, tactics have changed on both sides, though casualties were still proportionally much greater than previous wars.