Originally Posted by
Joseph High
… Is there any chance that we'll be able to use rifles while playing as an officer? I'm not bad with a revolver or anything but I'd much rather have a rifle but still have the ability to point and use lines. I can't find anything online about it occurring historically, but in a book about a fictional war in that era, there was an officer who opted for a rifle instead of a revolver.
It's not a huge deal if it never becomes a thing, especially because I can't find anything that shows any officer historically opting for a rifle, and I can manage playing as an NCO but I'd like to see something like that being an option.