Imagine being a soldier during XVIII century europe.

You can shoot 3 bullet a minute. Meanwhile, you have to stand there and walk like an idiot knowing you're gonna die in exactly 50 seconds because anything else would be "uncivilized".

Your enemy can also shoot 3 bullets a minute. Your primary concern is to find a good vantage point without becoming an obviously better target than everyone else, because you can only realistically survive so many times 3 bullets a minute. Realistically, you will die of dysentery, a mugging, or STDs within 5 years of service.

Bear in mind muskets were very inaccurate back then. You aim for a belly and you hit a squirrel in a tree kind of inaccurate

@netikras Imagine being a squirrel during XVIII century europe.
You are chewing on your nuts, minding your own business and suddenly you get hit in the belly by someone who aimed at a soldier in some retarded war.

@lorentz In the Abraham plains battle, the british won because instead of standing they went down and started lying down. Ya know, to protect themself.

The french couldn't comprehend such a lack of honor. But hey they lost

@lorentz In the Abraham plains battle, the british won because instead of standing they went down and started lying down. Ya know, to protect themself.

The french couldn't comprehend such a lack of honor. But hey they lost

@Lensflare exactly. France should have won but those retarded brits wouldn't let them