Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "Ask Ian: Civil War Tech - Why Didn't It Improve?" video.

  1. Had been also in 1970s Germany. But i didn' t liked them, this system was not relyable (those paper tapes).
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  2. In 30years war in HRE (1618-1648) famous ,Generalisimus' Wallenstein was not a master of new weapons and tactics, but a master of organisizing the supply with Equipment and Money.
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  3. Some notes to older weapons. In US civil war not only smoothbore and flintlock weapons had been used, also thousands of pikes had been produced.
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  4.  @ianfinrir8724  : As a German Person, i assume, the pikes with different Tips, had been either produced as Last ditch weapons, or to arm the slaves, as a source of manpower. . An other possibility would be the Lack of muskets in early days. So equipping may be 3000 men with a mix of pikes and rifles was (only) in early stages of war no ,rxtraordinar, Ything
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  5.  @CountArtha  : In german language countries, last use of pikes was at end of napoleonic wars. To eqip all volunteer units of prussian Landwehr, there had been at start enough muskets, so that some units had a mix of few muskets, much pikes and some axes. For war success reason, the pikes had been replaced with captured french muskets more and more. Also because nearly no troops had remainded in Württemberg, so the King ordered to build four ,rural regiments' basicly Landsturm for Police and guard duties. The regiments had only half size and the men elderly.Their main weapon was a pike, 2m shaft and 15cm blade. Also in 1848/49 Revolution attempt, many units of Citizens Militia/ Bürgerwehr had been armed with warskytes. As far as i know , in last Swiss war, Sonderbundkrieg' 1847, some few soldiers of poorer cantons had only warskytes.
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