[quote]3) On that note, this role-play is firmly rooted in early 19th century technology. Yes there are guns, but they are basic muskets, so don't expect to be sharpshooting across the battlefield. There's no magic, and the only race your nation can be is human. Any further questions, just ask![/quote]

I'm not sure if you know this or not but the 19th century was a pretty major period in fire arms development. Even in the early 19th century rifled barrels existed establishing the dual classification of muskets (smooth bore) and rifles (rifled barrels) with the later providing considerable advantages of range over the classical smooth bore muskets in the first stage of the 1800's.

By the mid-1800's rifled barrels and more precise fire-arms became more in vogue with fully rifled muskets or full rifles being in use on the battlefield of the American Civil War. In fact a major factor to the high death toll in the Civil War was the usage of far more modern weapons being deployed in a much more Napoleonic methodology, tight formations shoulder-to-shoulder firing in blocks against the enemy two or three times in anytime between a minute or five minutes before charging in (in this case, not because they couldn't fire faster but because every soldier was issued a limited number of shot and ball they couldn't afford to fire as fast as possible as long as possible, 20-something shots per-person does not allow that).

Repeating rifles too saw deployment in the American Civil War, again the mid 19th century allowing for rapid fire and the benefit of rifles barrels. While of course in the historical context they were in they may not have seen wide-spread use like the Gatling Gun from the general conservatism of the military command they were a present and viable option with the terrifying benefit of rapid fire and incredible accuracy; early Gatling Guns for instance were known to be as accurate as any contemporary rifle of the time (as by design, Dr. Gatling hoped a single Gatling Gun would do the work of an entire battalion on a crew of two and thus reduce an army's size; this of course went the other way).

This is all in the period wooden hull ships would be in vogue and motor-driven ships would be at their earliest stage. Because also in the "19th Century" time-period you have the widespread evolution out of the sailing ship and into the engine-driven steel-hull ship and the industrial spread of rifled barrels. The musket was abandoned in the later part of the 19th century and in the life-time of a single person the entire period has gone from packing powder and bullets down a barrel with a ramrod to cartridges containing all the means to fire a bullet; the bullet itself, powder or propellant, firing cap. that can be fired with the twitch of a hand on a lever to reload a new bullet into the firing chamber or opening the chamber itself to load a new bullet into it and with unparalleled accuracy. Some features of Napoleonic warfare remained, but the lines of battle would be far more spread out. Meanwhile on the sea the steel-hulled ships would be so resistant to their own guns the whole practice of naval warfare returned to just smashing shit.

I think you're interpreting a fairly dynamic period of technological change as a fairly stagnant period with a single prominent firearm; the old musket with no accuracy. This is opposed to an earlier period and probably a far more accurate time for what you may want: the 18th century, or the 1700s.