Their swords were rapiers, a straight-bladed, edged (often doubled-edged) weapon. In the movies, at least, they are often depicted as carrying flintlock pistols.
What weapons do musketeers use?
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What swords did the French musketeers use?
Close-Range Rapier and Main Gauche 195
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Long-Range Flintlock Musket 275
Special Weapon Grenade 26
What is a Musketeer rapier?
The Musketeer rapier is fashioned after those circa 1590. The basket hilt is ambidextrous and a very effective mix of both the cup-hilt and swept-hilt styles. The grip is wood wrapped with twisted wire and the parts of the hilt are plated with gleaming nickel silver.
What kind of swords did the 3 musketeers use?
Their swords were rapiers, a straight-bladed, edged (often doubled-edged) weapon. In the movies, at least, they are often depicted as carrying flintlock pistols. Being musketeers, they had to be adept in the handling of muskets.
Do musketeers use swords?
The Musketeers in Alexandre Dumas' classic novel we're the only musketeers who used swords instead of muskets. Musketeer was literally a soldier whose primary weapon was a musket. They were specialists with that weapon because the muskets of theme (pre flintlock) were complex and expensive.
Did the 3 musketeers have guns?
Three musketeers belonged to the Mousquetaires de la garde , who were the king's soldiers armed with, indeed, muskets. In the books, they are mentioned to have guns - Atos shot at least two people in the first book with his pistols; they used muskets when they had breakfast in Bastion Saint-Gervais.
Why do three musketeers not have muskets?
The Musketeers were part of an elite unit that only accepted nobles (barons or inheriting sons of barons, and up, if I remember correctly), because when they were formed no one wanted to use muskets on the field of battle.