Gasmask134
Cadet
- Joined
- May 10, 2018
So I was reading older threads on here about repeaters and I came across someone mentioning that soldiers might save up money to buy one on their own.
Which left me wondering, if a soldier did purchase a repeater to use with his own money how would that even work in the context of the rest of his unit? I can't imagine everyone in a company or regiment going along with "Everyone has rifled muskets, except that one guy who has a repeater."
Would the man with the repeater take on a more specialized role instead?
To expand on the question a little bit, what if a whole company of infantry has breech loaders or repeaters while the rest of the regiment has rifled muskets? Would that company become designated skirmishers for the regiment?
I'm just a bit confused on the role of soldiers using something other than a rifled musket in an infantry unit...
Which left me wondering, if a soldier did purchase a repeater to use with his own money how would that even work in the context of the rest of his unit? I can't imagine everyone in a company or regiment going along with "Everyone has rifled muskets, except that one guy who has a repeater."
Would the man with the repeater take on a more specialized role instead?
To expand on the question a little bit, what if a whole company of infantry has breech loaders or repeaters while the rest of the regiment has rifled muskets? Would that company become designated skirmishers for the regiment?
I'm just a bit confused on the role of soldiers using something other than a rifled musket in an infantry unit...