Musket Girls! ~Tensei Sanbou to Senretsu Otome-tachi~ - Vol. 2 Ch. 8 - 6th Special Duty Brigade, Engage

[MedNed]

The way they shittalk muskets feels like a bow and arrow is still the more accurate choice.

Kinda a non issue with the way both were used; mass fire. With enough muskets you can actually hit a target 200m, even 300m. You'll be able to field more musketeers than archers just by the fact you just need a warm body that has enough teeth to bite the paper cartridge and at least three fingers to shoot one.

 

[PinkManiac]

The way they shittalk muskets feels like a bow and arrow is still the more accurate choice.

If I recall correctly, bows were more accurate than smooth bore muskets within their respective effective range. But muskets had a much higher effective range and they were far easier to use so they could have more people use them. No clue how accurate muskets were compared to bows within the effective range of a bow.

 

[Kurie]

Thanks for the TL. I am looking forward to the conclusion to this battle.

 

[MedNed]

If I recall correctly, bows were more accurate than smooth bore muskets within their respective effective range. But muskets had a much higher effective range and they were far easier to use so they could have more people use them. No clue how accurate muskets were compared to bows within the effective range of a bow.

Muskets when shooting at a formation sized target (think 100 ft wide) it was about 10% accuracy at 400 yards. I know that sounds like utter crap but if you have 100 guys in mass fire shooting against another 100 guys the enemy is just lost 10 guys from that. And you know they're going to be dead or lose a limb if they're lucky. Not mention you could have your men just shoot in salvos instead of all at once so you can have 'continuous fire'.

So in a way 'maximum combat range' always has been about 300 to 400 yards no matter the era.

 

[truniht]

If I recall correctly, bows were more accurate than smooth bore muskets within their respective effective range. But muskets had a much higher effective range and they were far easier to use so they could have more people use them. No clue how accurate muskets were compared to bows within the effective range of a bow.

Ease of use is a massive factor, sure an archer with decades of experience is more accurate than a gunner, but those archers were irreplaceable and in many societies rare (hunter societies like mongols were pretty much the only ones able to field highly skilled archers in large numbers).

If you were to compare a musketeer with three months of training to an archer with the same amount, the difference in accuracy is trivial. The much better comparison is crossbows, they had similar training requirements and crossbows had greater accuracy, which is why for a century after guns became a common weapon crossbows were still used alongside them.

 

[syncswim]

Accuracy of shooting was never really an emphasis for musketeers. Most smoothbore muskets didn't have sights. It just wasn't seen as an issue because a lot of military doctrines at the time said the role of muskets was to fire one concentrated volley into the enemy at close range right before a bayonet charge, which was supposed to be the real fighting the line infantry would do. Regiments would usually have a company detach from the formation to fight as skirmishers in loose order ahead of the line - these guys were expected to take more time to aim, but this was just a temporary role they had to fill, not something they were expected to be super proficient at. For doctrine makers the main tool for attacking enemies at range was artillery.

 

[Kindness]

Good work with the TL as always!

Seeing as Yuiner's bringing rifled muskets into play, I wonder how far he's gonna take his knowledge? Not anything too crazy like tanks or mechanization as that would probably be too big of a leap, but something small. Literally. Like maybe the Minié ball for instance? Those tiny fucks have better velocity than regular musket balls and are also capable of absolutely fucking someone up. But if the manga really did go that direction... I'd hesitate to see just what those wounds would look like in manga form.

im pretty sure they were using the Minié ball along with that new rifled gun. As in, he explicitly mentioned it was a Minié ball in ch. 4 pg 21 and that the previous chapter mentioned that the bullet was of a different, "acorn" shape.

 

[McAlastair]

im pretty sure they were using the Minié ball along with that new rifled gun. As in, he explicitly mentioned it was a Minié ball in ch. 4 pg 21 and that the previous chapter mentioned that the bullet was of a different, "acorn" shape.

Oh, right. Accidentally confused the Minie ball for Dum-dum rounds.

 

[yoshiyosan]

intro page really made me want to play BA "Coffee Cats" ost

 

[ARealCoolGuy]

Has he actually mentioned his "Grim Reaper Scythe" to anyone yet? Why'd the Female captain bring it up?