[quote=@Willy Vereb]
[@Dinh AaronMk]I think it just means we should expect Napoleonic times or something. Though admittedly the reason why rifled guns and cannons didn't spread is due to the pressures of that war and then the recovery from its devastation.
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It would much more due to industrialization than war itself. Much of Europe wasn't up to the sort of speed as England was into early automation, and to that point not in all fields. Much of the early industrial production was oriented to the textile industry as was the case in the United States, particularly the north in and around New England; more so Britain since textiles like lenin and wool was a major historical export vs anyone else, except southern France where since the Revolution local Silk production in and around Lyon had been industrialized. Any widespread use of rifling would have been limited by the capacity to produce it, and as you and I both said to some capacity: the relative conservatism of the military command at the time (Napoleon resisting rifled weapons as much as the American command on either side resisting repeating weapons on account of the command being far more familiar with smooth-bore line infantry combat).

[quote=@Romero]
[@Dinh AaronMk] I welcome anyone's suggestions and feedback, so thank you. 

I am not at all suggesting that the 19th Century was not pivotal in the development of firearms, far from it in fact! If I was setting this RP in various points throughout the Century then I would of course adapt the available technology to fit. But this is an RP set in 1799, which is a point I do express. 

With that in mind, then the idea of the musket being the primary firearm is far from a speculation, it is almost a certainty. Even during the Battle of Waterloo, 16 years after the starting date of this RP, rifles were still an uncommon armament. Only around 4000 were present on the English side, and practically none on the French side due to Napoleon's disdain of them, and his recalling of the experimental rifles in 1807. 

I appreciate your feedback, but I can't help but feel you did not fully read the entire post, as you appear to have missed the limited beginning date of 1799. And for future reference, I don't particularly appreciate the apparent assumption of my ignorance. I wouldn't be undertaking running an RP if I hadn't done my research for it. But thank you nonetheless. I will read over the post again, in case I am at fault for not making the point clear.
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Really, if what you want is a more Napoleonic situation with all the trappings and none of the worry of calculating however much more damage can be done by taking a brigade of rifles and having them shoot at another brigade at rifles at practical point-blank range for said rifles, then it would be far easier and far more honest to just call it an 18th century RP than a 19th century RP given how the Napoleonic Wars were much more along that tradition then and the 19th in the broadest sense. Calling something 19th century calls to mind so much of what is that tried and tired trope of Steam punk and the later definitive acts of the what-is Victorian period.