The author, Captain J.F. Owen, R.A., was a professional officer in Queen Victoria's Army, and this is his report on the barbaric devices coming into use in the latter half of the 19th Century. It includes fascinating reports by English and other officers who served in either the French or Prussian Armies for educational purposes and witnessed the new weapons. Owens also reviewed accounts of such eccentricities as the Requa Billinghurst Volley Gun of ACW fame. I was prepared to dismiss his interesting but necessarily subjective anecdotal treatment as trivial until I discovered just what I was looking for! Results of firing trials between contemporary machine-guns and other ordnance! What would do the most damage in two minutes to a target of 90 horse or 100 foot from 400, 600, 800, or 1,000 yards - a small Gatling, a 12 pdr breechloader, 9 pdr muzzle loader, or Mitrailleuse? How many guns in a French, Bavarian, Norwegian, or Spanish machinegun battery? At 400 yards the Gatlingwas superior, followed by the muzzle loader, mitrailleur, breech loader, Snider and Martini-Henry rifles in that order. For the other results, you can't go wrong buying the book for $8. Partizan Press. Reviewing Stand Houston 1/900 Ships Russo-Japanese War GHQ 1/2400 WWII and Napoleonic Ships Panzershiffe 1/2400 Ships Skytrex 1/3000 WWII Ships Elan Enterprises 30mm Willie Dixon 25mm Napoleonic French in Egypt Two Dragons 15mm Sikh and Indian Wars Connoisseur 15mm Napoleonics Two Dragons 15mm Samurai and Vikings RSM 15mm Franco-Prussian Figures GHQ 1/285 WWII Pacific Napoleon's Battles Rules Featherstone's Complete Wargaming Book Fire and Fury ACW Rules Rules for Ancient Miniatures Rules Battles for Empire Napoleonic Rules Supreme Warlord Ancient and Renaissance Campaign Rules A Little More Grape, Capt. Bragg Mexican-American Wargames Rules The Napoleonic Source Book Les Gens Braves Franco-Prussian Wargames Rules Mitrailleuses and Machine Guns Book Prussian Infantry in the War of 1870-71 Soult: Napoleon's Maligned Marshal Book Kriegspiel 1824 Dutch Army of William III Booklets Napoleon's Grand Army 1813 Book GHQ Normandy Terrain Booklet Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright WWII Rules Nam Vietnam Wargame Rules Soldiers of the ECW (1) Infantry The Red Army of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945 Booklet GDW's ASW Forms Booklet Ardennes 1944 Remember the Maine, To Hell With Spain Booklet Back to Table of Contents -- Courier Vol. IX No. 5 Back to Courier List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1990 by The Courier Publishing Company. This article appears in MagWeb.com (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other articles from military history and related magazines are available at http://www.magweb.com