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Green Jackets (ETW unit)

Green Jackets
Green Jackets
Category: Infantry
Class: Light Infantry
Men: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80
Range: 125
Accuracy: 70
Reloading skill: 35
Ammunition: 20
Melee attack: 4
Charge bonus: 8
Defence: 12
Morale: 7
Turns to train: 2
Recruitment cost: 980
Upkeep cost: 240
Requires
Technology
Machined Rifling
Machined Rifling
Building (minimum level)
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Army Board

Riflemen are skirmishers and snipers without peer, picking off leaders to sow confusion in enemy ranks.

Organised and equipped as light infantry with rifles, not smoothbore muskets, riflemen have every right to see themselves as an elite. Chosen for initiative and intelligence, they fight without close supervision from their officers. Their uniforms set them apart in an age when soldiers dress like peacocks: they deliberately blend into the landscape so that they can stalk their prey.

Historically, the most famous riflemen, the British Greenjackets, carried infantry rifles designed by Ezekiel Baker. This muzzle-loading flintlock used a small ball from a tightly rifled barrel to give superb accuracy. There are accounts of riflemen holding targets for each other at hundreds of paces! It was a slow business to load the piece properly, as high-quality powder was carefully measured out and the bullet wrapped in a leather patch then tapped down the barrel to engage with the grooves. All of this could take a minute or more to do properly, but the resulting shot was deadly over astonishing ranges. Baker even carefully supplied a long “sword bayonet” so that the overall length of his rifle plus bayonet matched that of a line infantryman’s bayonet-tipped musket.

Abilities

Can guard
Can hide in buildings
Can hide in light scrub
Can hide in long grass
Can hide in woodland
Can skirmish
Good stamina
Grappling hooks

Technological abilities

Plug bayonet
Ring bayonet
Socket bayonet
Can place stakes
Chevaux de frise
Earthworks
Fougasse
Improved fougasse
Light infantry tactics
Volley fire

Available for:

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Great Britain