1 guy with a musket is going to fire once and has like a 10% chance of hitting anything and then proceeds to do a 90 second long reload.
200 guys firing 200 muskets at the same time is like a gigantic shotgun that kills everything in the horizon.
if one country decides this is retarded and doesn't do it, their opponent will and they'll get blown the fuck out.
"b-but i'll have guerillas hide sparsely in brush and fire off surprise shots at their stupid giant shotgun line"
a horse will come decapitate those guys because a couple isolated guys in bushes can't form a bayonet wall and have a 90 second reload where they're vulnerable throughout without a line of guys behind them to step forward and produce a giant shotgun.
it's just the most meta and effective use of a musket.
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elephants were giant unpredictable pussies and they aren't bulletproof. but just the sound would make them flee let alone the pain. a volley of line fire would kill enough to rout the rest if you had multiple elephants. thats why they saw no more use after gunpowder. they barely saw use pregunpowder.
lancer cavalry was also very common and were faster and had longer reach than an elephant. they could stab the undefended hindquarters of an elephant and encircle it before it even reached a line of gunfire. most cavalry fought other cavalry.
but the main problem is nobody had elephants anyway.
