Musketeers without muskets 🪶

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Mexican fusilier in summer dress, 1836.
With poor or nonexistent training, many of the Mexican troops present at the Alamo were prone to friendly-firing their own people. Fearful of the recoil of their muskets, many fired from the hip, resulting in poor accuracy.

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In general they are based on some old muskets similar to the 19th century or before that.
One reason for the unique shape of these pistols is that in my setting they mostly belong to some expensive private order or experimental
I have drawn sketchs in pixel art.

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►⌠WE ARE LIVE🔴⌡◄
Who knew muskets could be so fun?!~
Holding out in Holdfast: Nations at War
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A navy captain who has a magical coat that can conjure watery cannons and muskets.

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20 Sep 1777 Malvern PA. Flints were removed to keep muskets silent British Gen Grey’s men surprised Gen Wayne’s division in the Paoli Massacre. Soldiers were bayonetted in their sleep & given no quarter. A total of 272 American casualties.

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I asked AI to make art of MusketsGoBoom

They didn't put any muskets, smh 😡

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🔥Then the flaming thing burst into sight at a point where the Curwen farm ought to lie. The human cries of desperate & frightened men were heard. Muskets flashed & cracked & a shriek of human origin was plainly distinguished “Almighty, protect thy lamb!” 🎨sabbas apterus🔥#HPL

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Yesterday I did some halberdier and handgunner designs for some of the nations in my fantasy story. It was pretty fun! Drawing arquebuses is a lot easier than drawing muskets ngl

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Mist and muskets

Art for

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Arms and munitions also coming in from England, OTD 1597 report that Tyrone shipped 'great provisions of lead for bullets, muskets, morions, head-pieces, swords, and daggers' via the port of Liverpool. A merchant called Harcles provided 'all the lead for the north of Ireland'

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12 May 1780 Charleston, SC. American Gen Benjamin Lincoln’s unconditional surrender, giving up over 3K men, 6K muskets & 400 guns to British Gen Henry Clinton, is the greatest US disaster of Frigates Boston, Providence & Ranger captured too.

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Congrats on the milestone. You have such wonderful art, and I'm putting down my OC Nesoja (Comms by @/DiceSMS @/alaylays @/KijiArt @/MusketsGoBoom )

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the 3 musketeers (without the muskets lol) featuring and

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💀Then the flaming things burst into sight at a point where the Curwen farm ought to lie. The human cries of desperate & frightened men were heard. Muskets flashed & a shriek of human origin was plainly distinguished “Almighty, protect thy lamb!” 🎨Gerald Brom💀#HPLovecraft

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OTD 1596 Capt Dowdall reported Tyrone's had 'drawn the greatest part of their kern to be musketeers & their gallowglass pikes, they want no furniture neither of muskets, fowling pieces, calivers, swords, graven morions, powder and shot'..'how cometh?'-good question

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I'm (probably) playing an Abjuration Wizard in a Descent to Avernus campaign. She has her spells embroided in her hat and most of them manifest as magic rifles/muskets. Her name's Aleida and she's a Halfling.

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OTD 1601 Spanish arms arrived in Killybeggs. 2 frigates landed '3,000 pikes, 2,000 calivers and 1,000 muskets, with a correspondent proportion of powder, lead and match' with 25k crowns. Tyrone decreed all who serve will get 20 shillings a month-better pay than English service

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