ne of the few battles at which the performance of the Snider was well re-corded was at Arogi during Napier's Abyssinian campaign of 1868. Partly because of a tactical misappreciation on the part of the force commander, a depleted battalio of the 4th (Kings Own) Regiment, probably not more than 300 to 400 rifles strong, found itself receiving the attack of some 7,000 charging warriors. This was the first occasion on which the Snider was used in action and the results were instructive - perhaps horribly so. In an earlier book on the subject 'The March To Magdala" the author wrote: "In the centre, near the colours, Colonel Cameron also watched intently, gauging the range and speed of movement of the enemy. He was an experienced soldier who knew his business and he wanted the first blast of musketry to be a devastating one, so that although the Snider was effective at five hundred yards he waited resolutely. W7hen the approaching line was some two hundred and fifty yards away he judged the time ripe. He took a firmer grip on his reins, cast a final look left and right along the line of intent, bearded faces and in a clear, unhurried voice gave the order to fire. Three hundred blue barrels came up together and three hundred hammers clicked back to full cock. The first burst of fire ran down the line with a noise like a great tearing of canvas and a wide gap appeared abruptly in the centre of the Abyssinian line as the storm of fire hit it", The first fire did not stop the charging Abyssinians who came on gallantly apparently (and perhaps understand-ably) convinced that a thin skirmish-ing line could not stop them. They were mistaken "The British were firing independently and by the time the more deliberate shots had fired their first rounds the quicker were ready with their second. The fire was therefore continuous: six or eight rounds a minute were quite possible with the Snider, so that the line was probably producing thirty or forty well-aimed shots each second. Not a lot, to be sure, by modern standards, but remarkable then. With the possible exception of some of the foreign observers, no one Present had previously seen breechloaders in action, and to men accustomed to volleys the fire was frightening in its intensity."
One interesting fact that emerges is that the commanding officer was clearly familiar with the trajectory tables, for he deliberately held his fire until the charging enemy were in a dangerous space which extended right up to the muzzles of the rifles. Not for him the slow, lobbed bullet at half a mile, but the devastating punch at point-blank range.
And even mods had failed to grasp this the physics revolving around rifles are way off for Shogun too reach but the lethality in close distance is easy to represent

A thing that most mods ignored although its obvious iin all battles of that era