The Lee–Metford (also known as the Magazine Lee–Metford) is a British bolt-action rifle that feeds from a 5-round magazine of .303 British, though due to metallurgical limits it can only fire black powder loads. It replaced the Martini-Henry Rifle as the British Empire's standard service rifle in 1888, following nine years of development and trials. Though its use was limited to a single decade until its replacement by the Magazine Lee-Enfield Mk. I, it earned a mixed reputation during that time. On one hand, in the Second Boer War it was severely outmatched by Mauser-type rifles which were more ergonomic and had longer range. However, in the extensive guerilla war that followed Ned's Rebellion, the Lee-Metford rifle offered unparalleled firepower against natives with much simpler arms. In the mid-1960s, a number of Lee-Metford rifles can still be found, though most have been converted to Lee-Enfields by changing the barrel.
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Magazine Lee-Metford Rifle
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Common Attributes - National
Instrument of Imperialism - European Small Arms (VIC)
Europe in the Victorian Era was defined by the Concert of Europe: despite the occasional war for traditions' sake, the carnage of the Napoleonic Wars was unknown for a whole century. All that ire and technological progress was instead directed towards the rest of the world, carved up between Europe's great powers like a grand cake. And such a cake could never run out, could it?
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This weapon's damage is maximised when employed against an enemy which possesses no other weapon types than Bow 🏹 and Melee 🪓, including unarmed enemies.