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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Actually, Pacifier, if I'm not mistaken, the percentage of soldiers *not* firing their guns went down because armies the world over changed the standard target from a simple bulls-eye to the shape of a man.
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yeah, among other things, that is not the only way in which training has changed.
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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Oh, and even with a large percentage of people not shooting at the enemy, the casualty numbers were still terrible in the old days... tens of thousands of deaths in a single battle were quite common, especially in nationalistic Europe. Today that would simply be unheard of.
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but when you remember that the prussians were able to shot their guns 5 times in a minute a 500 man squad should have been able to kill 2500 man in a minute (ok lets say 2000, some are missing) but that didn't happen cause they were not aiming a the enemy. and the most brutal wars were fought after the introduction of modern artillery and bombers (see WW1 and WW2)
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