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wduquettelast Wednesday at 1:19 PM1 replyview on HN

No; muskets were a battlefield weapon, and little of the book takes place on the battlefield. You wouldn’t carry them around Paris.


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rob74last Wednesday at 1:30 PM

Yeah, I guess that's what I meant with "impractical". Sure, if you had your enemy on the other side of a battlefield, or outside the walls of your castle, muskets were great. If you met them on the streets of Paris, not so much...

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