Musket Girls! ~Tensei Sanbou to Senretsu Otome-tachi~ - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - The Grim Reaper Staff Officer & Colonel's Plan

[ForTheJerusalem]

My guy is making new guns just so the girls won't die, based.

 

[Azarom]

thanks you for the chapter

 

[forexjammer]

Yep, the only way I see the girls getting less casualty is making them skirmishers/ riflegirls(?)/ Light infantry. The new uniforms and guns pretty much confirms it. Less chance getting cannister shot in their formation too I suppose.

 

[Jergens]

Thank you very much for picking it up !
Let's hope he won't reproduce WWI weaponry... Or it's gonna be gruesome.

I hope they don't for the sake of aesthetics. Colonial era warfare and black powder are so underrepresented in media. Though with how much attention to detail is given, I'd wager the mangaka is an enthusiast of this era. Starting with this premise then ditching it for world wars stuff would be silly.
With regards to the MC, he doesn't come across like a typical isekai protagonist that flexes with his "superior modern knowledge." He introduced rifling and the minnie ball out of necessity to compensate for shorter barrel lengths. He hesitated and doubted whether he should've done that. Everything else he's done so far is to compensate for his troop's weaknesses and give them as much of an edge in survivability as possible.

If there's already muskets being used as regular infantry weapons, it's just a matter of time, regardless of whether MC does something or not

While it is a matter of time, I doubt it will happen in MC's lifetime. Without machining, any fancy invention he recreates will just be novelties: hell, we have examples of cartridge using guns as far back as the 1600s, but it never caught on in the military until the late 1800s. Rifling and smoothbore both have their places, and while rifling is a considerable advantage to accuracy and range, it was rarer due to expense. Understand that any military in history are a bunch of cheapasses and will cut corners whenever possible. "Military grade" = built by the lowest bidder.
In terms of WW1 weapons, true reciprocating cartridge firing weapons took a few centuries to crop up after the advent of rifling. Not to mention that rifling itself wouldn't be out of place in the represented time period. The next big invention would be the percussion cap, as that gets rid of the need to prime the pan and makes matchlocks and flintlocks obsolete. But MC won't figure out how to make them off of cursory knowledge, he'd have to know what mercury fulminate is and how to make it.

Thank you for listening to my TED talk.

 

[D1003Briner]

If there's already muskets being used as regular infantry weapons, it's just a matter of time, regardless of whether MC does something or not

well if we go without mcs intervention ww1 weaponry is only going to be used when he is at least in the most optimal scenario if we think this chapter is in 1800-1820 years than it would be 90-70 years, now if we assume its in the late 1700s like 1780 or 1790 then it would be 100 years from this chapter, obviously mc is going to intervene probably and make them appear much earlier, since the minie ball bullet was invented in 1847.

 

[Simpleton]

Thank you for your hard work, even if it was just for one chapter.

 

[claudio_rolna]

Any updates about this?

 

[Grimmycoffee]

Are they going to be riflemen and light infantry then? Hmm, based on the title, maybe not I suppose.

 

[Basic_human]

Making spiral curve before machine is stupid expensive

 

[BigPoppaEffy]

Was wondering when we would get to him suggesting using rifling for the guns. Almost forgot he was isekai'd lol

 

[Nuggz]

So since this is before mass production and even standard rifling in guns, this would be right around the 1700s. There were rifled guns but they were such a pain in the ass to make by hand that they were only made for skirmishers; infantry used to harass the lines, hit and run tactics basically

 

[Seraphus]

YES!

On the battlefield, smaller is better; being a smaller tatget, having a smaller weapon, blending in, etc... as long as the power is not affected smaller EVERYTHING... is better.

Dude is using every brain cell to implement American warmaking potential, and I love it.

 

[Seraphus]

So since this is before mass production and even standard rifling in guns, this would be right around the 1700s. There were rifled guns but they were such a pain in the ass to make by hand that they were only made for skirmishers; infantry used to harass the lines, hit and run tactics basically

Should change MC's name from "Krumbertz" to "Sharpe," and give that "Chief Sergeant" an Irish accent... now we just need that Major from earlier to be missing an eye, and half his face...

 

[Nuggz]

Should change MC's name from "Krumbertz" to "Sharpe," and give that "Chief Sergeant" an Irish accent... now we just need that Major from earlier to be missing an eye, and half his face...

If this a reference to something, I don't get it

 

[Seraphus]

If this a reference to something, I don't get it

It totally is, and I totally thought you were with me on it. But that's cool.

Spoiler: If you're curious

There is a book series about the rifleman, their jobs, how they did them, and what they wore and all that by a dude named Bernard Cornwell, set in the Napoleonic Wars; it's told mostly from the British perspective, and the lead character is named "Richard Sharpe."

All that reference stuff is from that.

They're time-period (semi)accurate fiction, and there are a series of movies from the BBC starring Sean Bean.

 

[Nuggz]

Spoiler: If you're curious

There is a book series about the rifleman, their jobs, how they did them, and what they wore and all that by a dude named Bernard Cornwell, set in the Napoleonic Wars; it's told mostly from the British perspective, and the lead character is named "Richard Sharpe."

All that reference stuff is from that.

They're time-period (semi)accurate fiction, and there are a series of movies from the BBC starring Sean Bean.

Wait I thought that guy was Scottish, not Irish. I never saw the show but at one point, shorts and some videos popped up for me regarding this show