Why the hell did they not lie down? You're a smaller target

Do you have 10feet long arms

>>1379279
Those things are really god damn hard to reload while laying down.

It wasn't until the Prussians invented the needlegun that you were able to properly reload while prone, which is why they so decimated the French in the Franco-Prussian war.

>>1379279
Sounds like something a faggot from Genoa or Milan might say.

>>1379279
cant reload a musket unless youre standing. Although i believe there may have been jaegers in the 19th century who were trained to load while prone, but it was with shorter barreled guns and it was more cumbersome. Also because its hard to be maneuverable when youre either carrying around sandbags or lying down in rows.

>>1379279

Chances of being hit were pretty low, honestly. Not because of smoothbore inaccuracy, mind you, but battlefield conditions and the like.

To be fair, it's still pretty hard to hit anyone in combat with rapid-firing weapons.

>>1379845
Both the Prussians and French had breech-loading rifles. You're thinking of the Austro-Prussian War.

>>1379845
Both the French and Prussians had breech-loading rifles. You're thinking of the Austro-Prussian War, I think.

>>1379904
after reading more the french gun was even superior to the prussian gun, what a mistake

>>1379918
Yeah, but the Prussians had superior artillery, thus giving birth to the ebin Kruppstahl meme.

>>1379890
>>1379904
>>1379918
The reason the French got BTFO is because the Germans had early machine guns (while the French didnt) and mowed them down

Also numbers

>>1380020
Prussian=Germany
In what world?

>>1380033
The Germans existed before 1870, mong
Prussians were Germans, and basically all the other German states were allied with them in that war

1. Artillery.
2. A more mobile force has the advantage in positioning and can charge.

>>1379279
How would the line behind you fire?

Enemy artillery?

Enemy cavalry?

>>1380033
the one where German unification was an almost entirely Prussian effort and Prussia's king became emperor of Germany

>>1380050
>>1380112
So by that reasoning Brits are all American

>>1380151
Is America dominated by British culture and institutions; lead by Brits consisting mostly of territories already absorbed by the Brits?
Today's Germany is not Prussia, but up until the interbellum Germany was a very Prussian affair

>>1380020
>while the French didnt
yes they had

but were so secret that when deployed soldiers didn't knew how to use them

>>1379845
Are you thinking of the Austro-Prussian War, perhaps?

>>1380151
Are you retarded or something?
The German ethnicity has existed since the breakdown of the Frankish Empire in the 9th century
Ethnicity isnt a concept tied to nation-state
The German and Italian people exist since the early Middle Age, even though they didnt get a united country until the 19th century

>>1379279
Because that's not how 18th century firepower was used. A company of 120 or so men firing three times a minute, with a ball that weights about 1/14 of a pound. That's almost 26 pounds of lead down range every minute. Two to three minutes of that and one side is going to break. Then you close with bayonets and buttstrokes with your musket.

>>1379279
Because you dont win wars laying on the ground

>>1380151
German existed as an ethnic group before the nation of "Germany" existed.

So a better comparison would be that (southern) Brits and their American descendants are both Anglos, which they are.

>>1379847
/thread

>>1380020
That's the opposite of history. The French were the ones with machine guns, while the Germans had superior conventional field artillery.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrailleuse#Franco-Prussian_War_.281870.E2.80.9371.29

>>1380020
Its literally the other way around

> this thread again
Is the reposting of this thread every few days with the same picture evidence of some sort of crippling autism?

>>1379845
Are you thinking of Austro-Prussian war perhaps? French had breech loading rifles.

>>1379279
How do you intend to reload a musket like that? It's a tall weapon and you need gravity to get the powder and the ball down the barrel.

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>>1382299