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Originally Posted by Icelander
A soldier using a Brown Bess musket with 2 points in Guns (Musket) has skill 11 and fires at effective skill 13 after aiming. A soldier using a Composite Bow with 2 points in Bow has skill 10 and fires at skill 13 after aiming. The crossbow-using soldier with 2 points in Crossbow has skill 11 and fires at effective skill 15 after aiming.
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Well Arrows (and bolts) have a rather stable flight while the musket ball has not. There are accounts of group of 50-60 soldiers in each army during the Napoleon wars, firing at each other at ranges of less than 60 yards and only 1 in 10 or 12 shots would hit.
I have seen a Napoleon Era musket fired literally at a barn door at the range of 100 yards and not hitting the door.