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<Text>A generic line infantry with anti cavalry ability. A direct descendants to Pikemen that capable of decent, weak, short ranged attacks (Isn't it better to shoot cavalrymen from a far than to charge them on foot? Horses can outmove human legs but not a shot, you know) that made possible with a combined, standardized musketry drill, permanently attached lightweight cannons, and rigid linear drills. this dual benefits however requires Niter for their gunpowders, both in training and actual uses.</Text>
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<Text>Fusilier is a name given to various kinds of foot soldiers; its meaning depends on the historical context. (Foundings, Functions,), originally means one who are armed with guns (Fusil, a French word originally means type of flintlock musket � now the term refers to a variety of firearms; including but not limited to repeating rifles and shotguns) the term has been used in contrasting ways in different countries and at different times, orginally artillery escorting foot soldiers (Fusils--which are flitlock firearms--are safer to carry around on active duty than matchlock firearms. Simply because flintlocks uses flint ignition to set off propelling powder rather than a hot naked firey chords matchlock uses and thus no accident via unintentional contacts between slowly burning chords and blackpowder storages possible when guarded by a fusilier), over time, Line Infantry, and even various elite units, are named 'Fusiliers', either the name is inherited, or simply because the name sounds cool. Over time all Line Infantry are technically fusiliers (due to aforemented firearms became common). Each of these regiments of Fusiliers (or Line Infantry in general) not only composed of 1,000 men with fusils, but also with one or two pieces of lightweight cannons (usually 3 or 4 pounders) called Infantry Guns or Regimental Guns, which marched along as part of Infantry regiment rather than Artillery battery.</Text>
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<Text>Fusil (which came from Latin "foisil", means a piece of flint), was introduced as firearms in 1610 by French court gunsmith Marin le Bourgeoys, he made a 'fusil' for King Louis XIII (Yes the same weak king present in Alexander Dumas Jr. 'The Three Musketeers'). Flint ignition mechanism for firearms however, dated back to 1500 with the introduction of Wheel lock firearms (The first that doesn't use hot glowing match to fire the gun) which were rather (still) cumbersome (but could be made concealabe for an assassin) and custom made (requires a huge deal of precision craftmanship, a gunsmith that made wheel lock guns were also a clock maker). eventually easier to use snaping flint ignition firearms were made as evolutionalry stages--Snap lock (1540s, originated in what's now Southern Germany) Snaphance (1550s, also from the same South Germany), and Miquelet (1580s, common in Mediterranean countries, possibly originated in Spain). While these flint ignition firearms are proven superior to matchlocks (safer and quicker to operate, less susceptible to weather constrains). the le Bourgeoys desing of 1610 was proven the cheapest and easiest to mass produce.. but only after the end of Thirty-Years' War. By that time, the distinctions of military-grade firearms--the Arquebuses, and Muskets--which were once easily identified by the need (or not need) to use monopoles-- where Muskets were once referred to heavier, large bore firearms that requires monopoles to support its weight, while Arquebus doesn't, became blurred out particularly with ironworking techniques of the 17th century that reduces a required proportions of iron to make a gun barrel. Eventually by the 1680s, Matchlock firearms are phased out from Europe, and replaced by superior and more reliable Flintlocks, either through a total replacements, or by converting the existing flintlock guns (many early flintlock muskets carried by soldiers by then still have fishtail stocks, which are common among matchlock muskets and arquebuses). Even so Military grade flintlock firearms are muzzle loaders and thus still low on rate of fire (one or two rounds per minute, well trained shooters may do 3 by flintlocks).</Text>
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<Text>Another no less important 'inventions' (rather aVicomte de Puys?gur.n accidential discovery) was a Bayonet, (A blade that attaches to the muzzle end of a firearm). The earliest bayonets are simply a knife or dagger with its shaft fit enough to plug the gun muzzle, first appeared in the world in 16th Century China, but its use in Europe was observed in Thirty-Years' War (Remember that, the war was the zenith of Pike and Shot infantry formations because, as mentioned before, firearms at that time were all slow-loading muzzle loaders, and pikemen are needed as close combat defensive measures (especially against cavalry charges), but in some instances pikemen aren't available, one simple solution, fitting a secondary weapon--any bladed weapons with its shaft into gun muzzle and musketmen instantly became pikemen (or more correctly, spearmen... muskets and arquebuses have the total lenghts about the same as a spear) and these guns can revert back to its original firearms function simply by removing that previously inserted blade). This solution did considered seriously in Europe (particularly through the memoirs of Jacques de Chastenet, Vicomte de Puys?gur.) and eventually, plug bayonet became standardized per orders of General Martinet of Royal French Army in 1671, issued to newly raised Fusilier regiment, followed by English in 1672 (issued to Dragoons), and Royal Fusiliers (an elite foot guards) in 1685. While plug bayonets were innovative solution, it was rather 'an ingenuity of complete fools'. plugging a blade into gun barrel disables the weeapon's ranged ability outright until the blade is removed (which aren't easy for a blade with its shaft fits into gun barrel by friction alone, and again this friction doesn't hold the blade shaft with the barrel that tight! also Insertion stage isn't a quick action either). Simply put, plug bayonets aren't reliable, as proven in Battle of Killiecrankie in 1689--where British Line Infantry and some pro-Brits Scotsmen lost that battle against Jacobite rebellion, where Jacobite swordsmen (supported by musketmen) charged downhills against British Line Infantry before the latter can fit a bayonet into their guns. Yet this shortcomings did lead to an evolutionary stage that further distincts military grade firearms from civilian ones--Ring Bayonets (a long spike forged into a barrel-sized ring, fitted outside the muzzle), Socket bayonets (the first with dedicated bayonet mounts) and Sword or Knife Bayonets, and so on (whenever ingeunities of gunsmits can bring, and... no barrel obstructions). With reliable bayonets (since Socket Bayonets), so ended Pike and Shot formations (except rebellions, less developed tribes, city states, kingdoms, republics, and empires outside Europe and in dire (and rare) situations by the states themselves).</Text>
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<Text>However, Flintlock muskets and bayonets don't make a fusilier (or Line Infantry of any kind). Technologies can make better weapons, but not better army. While bayonet can eliminate the needs of pikemen, bayonet drills certainly will. the reduced reach in melee combat means different melee combat patterns in every situations (including against cavalry charges) and thus came a new model bayonet drills. With this dual-purpose weapons came in common use, a foot soldier is required to get close order drill (considerably modified from pikemen drills), and musketry (inheriting from musketmen of previous era, volley fire commpensates an inaccuracy of smoothbore muskets with numbers of lead balls rushing out in each instances, fire by rank (developed from rolling volley of previous era) adds rate of fire to a given unit.. etc). European merchants sold a set of fusils worldwide, many of which sales came with bayonets as a default accessory (and maybe manuals). Many client countries and tribes might have exposed to/learned the existence of firearms before, they may know how to use guns, but had no idea what bayonets do. in 18th century Outside Europe and other whitemen domains, Fusils are treated as just another weapon for any previously avaialbe musketmen and Pike and shot units. Socket Bayonets often repurposed as a blade tip for polearms. Line Infantry requires not only these new weapons, but also military reorganizations, these aforemented drills require tighter disciplines, which... again requires a dedicated military services and not just a seasonal levy of peasantry. see? new army also requires civics too! By 18th Cetury, Asians and Middle Eastern domains didn't have any kind of line infantry even with european flintlock muskets periodically purchased. It was the second wave of Colonization that introduced these new form of footsloggers to them, through outright conquests by white conquerors, (where native troops are raised to serve), unequal treaties brought by humiliated defeat (particulary the First Opium War (1839�1842) which was a rude wake-up call to other Asian powers and steer them towards modernization efforts), or invasion potentials... and yes, these new armies are trained by either Europeans or American advisors.</Text>
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<Text>Fusiliers, as Line Infantry became a backbone of European Empires since 1680s, Inhertited to Continental American Nations by various names since their respecitve victories in their wars of Independence and onto the same era, while in Asia, Middle East and elsewhere, such introdictions were delayed until the second wave of colonizations since 1830s onwards. Firearms themselves didn't cease to develop. The introduction of breech loading (and later bolt action repeating) rifles into regular services in 1880s (made possible with the inventions of percussion primer made out of mercury fulminates in 1800) made linear formations (particularly with close order lines) impractical in combat. (Particularly when repeating rifles and associated ammunitions are very user friendly and are relatively cheap, rebellions outlaws and tribesmen already made extensive uses of repeating rifles around the same time). yet these legacies from the old days remain with us today, through basic military training, parades, and even some infantry units are still named 'Fusiliers'.</Text>
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. codes (and lines) to dictate that the unit performs this mode of attack. With this, codes to declare the this unit perform a melee or range at a default rightclick?
