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Tokarev pistol is rather lacking for a main service weapon, having a fixed sight ranged for 50 meters and no default option for a stock makes it less optimal compared to for example the Mauser C96.

Against smootbore musket equiped infantry you could maybe beat in a straight up line fight. Smoothbore muskets have a low enough effective range that the tokarev equiped line can get in range, go prone/crouch and stay that way during the whole fight while the musket line have to stand up during the fight so they can reload effectively. Any bayonet charge would easily be repulsed by volume of fire alone and if they stand and fire they will die to the tokarev side by volume of fire alone.

Against rifled muskets firing minié ball the tokarev line is gona die before they get into effective range, they can start firing from 400 yards+ and demolish the tokarev line and be safe from any return fire( shooting with pistol at 400 yards with fixed sights lmao). Even for skirmishing the rifled musket equiped skirmisher is gona outrange the tokarev equiped skirmisher significantly. John Sedgwick for example got snipped by confederate sharpshooters from 1000 yards.

But during really shitty weather or rain the side with the tokarev is gona be impossible to stop for any army that rely on paper catridges and muzzle loading since they quickly wont have any functional guns while the tokarev side will function unless they are underwater.

>Adapt some kind of stormtrooper attacks?
Yeah, probably.