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    Minas Moth's Avatar Senator
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    Default Accuracy vs. Marksmanship

    I have started this thread mostly because in the game (especially in the mods) people seem to confuse the accuracy of a weapon and the marksmanship (or skill to fire the same weapon) of its user. These I hold entirely "un-confusable" especially in terms of smooth-bore muskets (brown bess, french 1777 infantry musket, 1842 springfield musket) and rifled muskets (1853 enfield, 1848 mississippi, 1861 springfield etc...). From the research I got my hands on it seems that my views are true as in ACW weapons that were used were effective everywhere from 1,200 to even 2,000 yards (in some cases), but the actual killing was rarely done above 250-300 yards and even then soldiers ussually overshot the enemy...

    It seems though that not all agree with such an assumption, so I would appreciate any opinion on the contrary and the conformation of the same...
    Last edited by Minas Moth; February 28, 2013 at 06:50 AM.

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