🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 10 months agoAnon studies historysh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up1546arrow-down115
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minus-squareFuryMaker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down2·10 months agoEh. I’m still convinced it could have been better, and resulted in less death. After watching scenes from The Patriot, I was thinking ”why not kneel, or go prone!?” But no, let’s just stand up right and risk getting hit in the head by a cannonball.
minus-squarebionicjoey@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-210 months agoYou couldn’t easily reload one of those bad boys while prone.
minus-squareanton@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months agoThe moment breach loaders became available Prussia used them to absolutely destroy Austria-Hungary and their muzzle loaders in battle. This shows that the soldiers back then where limited by technology not their intellect.
minus-squareDoxateklinkfedilinkarrow-up7·10 months agoThey did do this sometimes. The Patriot isn’t so great for this
minus-squareknatschus@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkarrow-up2·10 months agoDidn’t the first row kneel so the second could shoot over their shoulders?
Eh. I’m still convinced it could have been better, and resulted in less death.
After watching scenes from The Patriot, I was thinking ”why not kneel, or go prone!?”
But no, let’s just stand up right and risk getting hit in the head by a cannonball.
You couldn’t easily reload one of those bad boys while prone.
The moment breach loaders became available Prussia used them to absolutely destroy Austria-Hungary and their muzzle loaders in battle.
This shows that the soldiers back then where limited by technology not their intellect.
They did do this sometimes. The Patriot isn’t so great for this
Didn’t the first row kneel so the second could shoot over their shoulders?