| I think you're forgetting the smoke as well callum, most napoleonic battlefields were covered in smoke in minutes, so aiming becomes pointless on both sides, the theory being you marched up to where you think you're enemy was, stand 50 yards away and blast ball after ball to where they ought to be if your fighting in line, praying that a load of cavalry dont come blasting out of the smoke in the meantime or that the enemy artillery didnt notice you generating a big ball of smoke and start hurling cannon balls down at you. |