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Confederate railway gun captured by Union forces, US Civil War, 1864 (lemmy.world)
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[โ€“] sanpedropeddler 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wood is definitely better than nothing, but I don't really see a situation in which this thing would need protection against small arms anyway. Unless something has already gone horribly wrong, those small arms are a significant distance from your artillery. At that range, they are already effectively worthless because their lack of rifling makes them horribly inaccurate.

If I had to guess, you would mainly be worried about union sharpshooters (maybe) and artillery. At that point the only real advantage of the wood is the obstruction of sight.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

The standard rifled muskets of the time actually had a range of about a kilometer.