Comments by "Be Kind To Birds" (@BeKindToBirds) on "Samuel Pauly Invents the Cartridge in 1812" video.

You can with a muzzleloader too, just slide the rifle down to where the muzzzle is near you and the butt by your feet. Like come on, let's think for a minute here mates.
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No it wouldn't have. Napoleon would not have won because of better rifles. Political and logistical reality ruined him, not tactical considerations. At the time people thought he was invincible and unbeatable already. He was undefeated in the field for huge amounts of time. ...he didn't need a better rifle.
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And he was completely correct. He did not have anything like the time to invest the decades it would take for steam to become a viable method of propulsion. He didn't make the mistakes of hitler, he focused very well on what was practical and could be done in time to matter. His decision to not adopt the rifle or the steam ship was absolutely correct for him. Set human warfare back no doubt but investment in these technologies would have been expensive wastes that wouldn't have produced any results for him. A thousand of these rifles wouldn't have won him wars lost because of lack of food.
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@Otokichi786 So fifty years of development after when we are talking about. It's like saying "nazi germany should have won, they had icbms" ...Well ...kinda. but you wouldn't look at a V2 and see a minuteman ii But that's what you are doing now with the idea of steam ships. He didn't make the wrong choice (at least not wrong for him and his ambition of power)
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@Redmenace96 Or ...he could use this exact same resources for something that would have an immediate effect. Like more food or moving his army.
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No, it would no have had a direct effect on the napoleon wars! Why does everyone in this thread think this way? Hitler's ambitions were ruined by investment into new tech that wouldn't see fruition until years after his military defeats and here people are saying napoleon should have done the same! He was already on the march to St Petersburg, Alexander had already taken finland, there was already war in spain! A rifle was never going to help him. He invested extremely wisely, that is why he had canned food and not this rifle. Because he didn't need more firepower, he needed food This is just people wishing for a repeat of the Ferdinand! And how do people look back at those kinds of innovations? They call the Nazis fools! But change the details a bit and now every single person in this video is lining up to make the exact same kind of logical mistake No. This rifle wouldn't have helped. And neither would the steam engine. If they had both had years of development put into them they could have helped but you are talking about a man in a tent in the field thousands of miles from France making the decision to start experimenting with new muskets. When he had never had a problem with enough musket firepower and musket firepower hadn't won him europe up to that point. Steph curry doesn't need to learn to tackle game 6 of the finals and if he does, it ain't going to help.
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Neither would have really helped him though. His problems were not enough food and vast land distances. The advantages given by those inventions didn't occur for decades later. If he had been victorious that would have been a gross oversight. Given history though there wouldn't have been any reason those inventions would have helped his situation
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