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    I'm pretty sure, as was stated before, the cause for such a wide variety is because of the Southern fighters being mostly farmers and not conscripted like the union

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    Quote Originally Posted by CarrollFilms View Post
    I'm pretty sure, as was stated before, the cause for such a wide variety is because of the Southern fighters being mostly farmers and not conscripted like the union
    you are very wrong about that.

    In early 1862 the CSA institute conscription. Everyone in uniform was to stay in uniform even if they only signed up for one year originally
    and every (white) male of military age was to serve. (with exceptions for specific trades and for slave owners)

    The Union didn't start a draft until later in the war, and comparable few where actually drafted. Many signing up to get the bounties, men drafted paying for substitutes, business owners in some cases paid for substitutes as not to loose their trained employees.

    So where basically every single soldier in the csa army after 1862 was a conscript and very few in the union army was actually drafted.
    (and large numbers went home in the summer of 1864 when their 3 year enlistments ran out)


    And there is really no clear evidence that the south used a bigger number of different types of firearms
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    Recently I have noticed a lack of Lorenz Rifles in confederate Units. I cant seem to find a confederate unit in the skirm servers that even has them anymore? will this be fixed or am I just missing the units completely? Its curious to me because the Lorenz was the 3rd most heavily used weapon in the war on both sides and there are no shortages of in game withworth rifles, far more rare in reality.

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    Quote Originally Posted by 2nd LT Chris Rose. View Post
    Recently I have noticed a lack of Lorenz Rifles in confederate Units. I cant seem to find a confederate unit in the skirm servers that even has them anymore? will this be fixed or am I just missing the units completely? Its curious to me because the Lorenz was the 3rd most heavily used weapon in the war on both sides and there are no shortages of in game withworth rifles, far more rare in reality.
    The Lorenz was more common in the Western Front than the Eastern Front for the Confederates and Federals alike.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Saris View Post
    The Lorenz was more common in the Western Front than the Eastern Front for the Confederates and Federals alike.
    Right im tracking on that, hut i'm saying it would be more accurate to at least have some, there are none that I can find on the confederate side at the moment. The Lorenz was used more in the western theater but they were still heavily used in the east. Ordinance reports from Early's division particularly.

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    If you have more sources about the Lorenz Rifle in the ANV, please share with us!

    We would like to add more of them, if there are more sources.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hinkel View Post
    If you have more sources about the Lorenz Rifle in the ANV, please share with us! :)

    We would like to add more of them, if there are more sources.
    https://www.n-ssa.net/vbforum/archiv...php/t-301.html

    http://weaponsman.com/?p=18348

    Here are two tertiary sources. Certainly there were way more Lorenz rifles than Withworth rifles. That's my point.

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