>>1191465Its like anal sex: If you're forced when you're a kid, you'll hate it as an adult.
>>1191468Yes, but unless you were engineering, the full sized axes were kept as regimental property, and kept in the baggage train until needed. They are just not convenient or necessary to haul around by the individual.
That said, there is plenty a mess can do with their single camp axe and individual belt axes. Chevaux de frise (pictured), Gambions, brush shelters....
>>1191470Last of the Mohicans is the superior book, hands down.
>>1191472How is that contrarian? We had the technology, it just wasn't as widely used or effective as people think. We mythologize the use of "American riflemen sharpshooters", but the blunt truth was that the British had more rifles on the field than the Americans ever did. They are slower firing, harder to load, more expensive, and rather finicky. They make excellent support weapons (until the fouling builds up), but canon and musket were the real forces on the battlefield.
