>>512979289
It definitely was. You can at least see where the danger is coming from, and even if you were on the front rank then your chances of surviving a musket shot are pretty high. Death rates in proportion to army size during battle were also way lower. It was really the shitty living conditions while on campaign and the primitive wound treatment and sanitation that killed people. When a battle was over it was over, and you could go back to camp and not worry about anything.
Compare to that to now where drones controlled by a guy half a country away are so accurate and nimble that they can practically fly up people’s assholes and have a 100% kill rate if it hits you, battles last for days or weeks at a time with pretty much no pause, and no matter what there’s always the omnipresent threat of just getting vaporized at any moment by any number of long range weaponry even when you’re just chilling around what you thought was a safe area.