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

Wow, I did many perplexity requests on all information giving here. (I learn so much trough that app, normally, I would've ignored everything said here because meh). Holding your home button and being directly accessible to ask something about what is on your screen is such an awesome thing.

It's actually quite a skill to shoot three times a minute. It was the absolute maximum.

@netikras depends if you were aiming for the belly of the squirrel.

@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