User blog comment:El Alamein/French Revolutionary Militia vs. American Minutemen/@comment-5078776-20120820231928/@comment-4661256-20120821014333

... a few things, Cfp: The fisherman's hook isn't a dinky thing you know today - the militia were peasants and a great majority of them carried fist-sized hooks that were at least one foot in length (for big-game fishing, see? Whaling or stuff like that). Scattershot is involved, but so is regular munitions. The French Militia fighting an undersupplied foe shouldn't really hurt them in a fight - the French and British armies were so similar, and the French Militia were able to go on the offensive and siege a freakin' castle prison, for crying out loud! ... in fact, because the British Army was so well-supplied they had an easier time dealing with the Minutemen.... you can revise this vote, and for now it counts as half a vote.