You're transported back to the Napoleonic Wars. You get to choose where, when and how you fight. What are you choosing?I'd want to be a French Cuirassier. Totally impractical but prestigious. First Italian campaign.
I'd uhhh. I'd be Chinese.
Wherever I am, the answer is light infantry / skirmishers. I don't want to be line infantry.
>>18480148there is something about the napoleonic era, the aesthetic is just amazing. i myself would have been a french artillery officer.
British Naval Captain. Prize money ahoy!
Okay, I choose to be Napoleon.That was easy.
>>18480148I'd be the guy that gets all the chicks
>>18480190It's usually a toss-up between them and the hussars.
>>18480148A Freiwilliger Jäger (Volunteer Hunter/Marksmen) from one of the german states. Prussia was the first to raise such units in 1813 in the wake of the Scharnhorst reforms. Those units were entirely composed of volunteers and other german states soon followed to create similar formations. The prussian army, in the process of rebuilding itself after it got soundly defeated by Napoleon, was transformed from an outdated force suited for the cabinet wars of the 18th century into a modern 19th century army that relied on the mass levy. This of course resulted into a drastic increase in size but also an overall drop in quality. And it was believed that for some duties conscripted men are just not suited - like reconnaissance, mapping and extensive skirmishing where one operates far from his own lines. So Prussia needed qualified men that were willing to serve and capable of performing those tasks outside of the line formations. The fact that the volunteers had to provide their own equipment (including uniform and weapons) filtered out the poor classes - which was by design as it was believed that only educated men would be capable of operating independantly of the line formations. But this position also offered much upwards mobility as a volunteer could quickly become an officer for his own unit via election (a practice that was unique to those formations) and could also become eligible to be transferred as an officer to the regular line regiments, which was a privlege formerly reserved for the nobility. This was also by design as Prussia needed a pipeline of experienced men to become officers, which were proven in battle. The Volunteer Jäger were further excempt from work and guard duties. Regarding their structure they were the size of companies/squadrons and were attatched to regular line or cavalry formations; here they had to adhere somewhat to the uniform standard of the formation they were attatched to, while their base uniform was to be green.
Hussar for the mad drip and endless pussy
>>18480148I go to the US, hunt down Lincoln's family and do what must be done
>>18480148I'd be a rocketman for the Bri'ish
>>18480478You'd achieve better results by giving the plans for the mechanical cotton picking machine to the southerners, so slavery would stop being profitable. The "back to Africa" movement would receive universal support by the 1850s, and America would end up nearly all-white with no civil war.
>>18480491We'd achieve better results if the Universe sent another big black meteor hurtling down our path to destroy everything and wipe out this cursed cancerous species that is Man
>>18480478I'll be damned if we don't make it to the moon one day on one of your infernal rockets.
>>18480148Sad news for you, annon : there were no cuirassier during the first italian campaign.I'd be a hussard from the 5th regiment during the Prussia campaign.
