[freeciv-data] Re: New techs in history ruleset

On Mon, 28 Oct 2002, Cameron Morland wrote:

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> La 2002-10-28, Christian Knoke skribis:
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> > > To me, the
> > > word riflery simply sounds like the skill of being able to fire a rifle
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> But it takes a great deal of skill to fire a bow, and it's dead easy
> to fire a gun. For a long time the longbowmen were much more effective
> than musketeers (eg the battle of Hastings),

The one at 1066?

> but musketeers were much cheaper (get a bunch of guys, give them
> guns).

Those early guns were probably a bit more difficult to use.

Cheers,
	Gerhard