Flint company
Composition
Manpower
200 gunners, 50 engineers(to repair the guns and help reloading on the fly.) and 5 healers(worthless if the company gets overrun, only useful if a rifle explodes or a soldier gets shot back)
Equipment
Flint lock rifles, ammo pouches, tinker tools and healing equipment.
On the armour side, the gunners are equipped with scalemail, to protect the gunner against ranged attacks and some melee attacks but it's not uncommon lately to see gunner soldiers in simple cloth with natural colours, trading in the pricey armour for more stealth but nearly no defence.
On the armour side, the gunners are equipped with scalemail, to protect the gunner against ranged attacks and some melee attacks but it's not uncommon lately to see gunner soldiers in simple cloth with natural colours, trading in the pricey armour for more stealth but nearly no defence.
Weaponry
The gunners use flint lock rifles to attack the enemy from medium range, the richer countries turn their flintlock rifles into gunblades which are used when the Flint company is inevitably overrun. those that cannot afford gunblades give the gunners longswords as sidearms.
Structure
Every company has one captain that commands the company, he has no real autonomy and just tells the commands of the general of the army.
Tactics
The Flint company uses two types of tactics, with one variant on the first one:
The line formation is a simple line from one or two rows where the gunners pick their own target, shoot and reload.
double line formation, invented by the tetochian order is one of the more efficient ways to utilize the company. While the first row shoots, the second reloads and visa versa.
The ambush formation is a lot more sporadic, The soldiers often hide within high grass or between trees in a forest, they encircle their target and only pop out when they are fully encircled.
They are highly efficient but only against smaller targets or those without ranged capabilities.
- line formation.
- ambush formation.
The line formation is a simple line from one or two rows where the gunners pick their own target, shoot and reload.
double line formation, invented by the tetochian order is one of the more efficient ways to utilize the company. While the first row shoots, the second reloads and visa versa.
The ambush formation is a lot more sporadic, The soldiers often hide within high grass or between trees in a forest, they encircle their target and only pop out when they are fully encircled.
They are highly efficient but only against smaller targets or those without ranged capabilities.
Training
The flint company needs a lot of training, a rifle is not just a weapon you can just point at someone and pull the trigger. Besides rifle training the flint company also needs training in stealth and basic survival as they would often be long times in forests and plains. They need to learn to survive without being visible by the enemy.
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