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Many feel that the Laws of Wotan clearly prohibit the use of muskets in combat, but that didn’t prevent the Empire of Anjou from introducing them and transforming the face of warfare forever. Now, a full generation after the heretical weapons drove the High Kingdom of Kriegsturm firmly onto the defensive, neither side is yet using the gun to its full potential.
That’s about to change.
Lieutenant Marshal Sturm, one of a handful of survivors of a battalion decimated by the musket-hating doctrine of his superiors, has developed a new tactic that could flip the battlefield upside down. The only thing standing in his way are the officers of his own chain of command. But the Empire is set to invade Kriegsturm again and the only thing that can prevent total annihilation is Sturm and his Musket Men.
That’s about to change.
Lieutenant Marshal Sturm, one of a handful of survivors of a battalion decimated by the musket-hating doctrine of his superiors, has developed a new tactic that could flip the battlefield upside down. The only thing standing in his way are the officers of his own chain of command. But the Empire is set to invade Kriegsturm again and the only thing that can prevent total annihilation is Sturm and his Musket Men.
231 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2024
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February 24, 2024
A good read
A good fast moving story it ended a bit to quickly and so I will now pre order the next book.
A good fast moving story it ended a bit to quickly and so I will now pre order the next book.
February 23, 2024
I've read several volumes in most of Stack's series to-date . . . Legionnaire, Preternatural, Pembroke Steel, Winterhaven . . . and now Musket Men. Stack knows how to write characters with whom you can connect emotionally. You are either rooting for them, or you're cursing them, take your pick.
Musket Men is no simplistic, quickly written tale of men stumbling over post-Medieval battlefields, lobbing lead at one another and hoping to score a hit. It's a complex weaving of political intrigue, the tide of battle turning against our heroes, and tactical decisions made on the fly that leave you biting your black powder-stained fingernails. It's a story of betrayal on the field of honor, of self-sacrifice, and of the sacrificing of good men by bad for their benefit without a hint of remorse. Many times I wondered how Stack would have enough of his characters remaining to write a sequel, only to glimpse the brilliance behind the character calling the shots in the story, and that brilliance is Stack's.
This story was really just a hoot to read, and I'm looking forward to more installments and adventures of the soldiers of Kriegsturm.
Musket Men is no simplistic, quickly written tale of men stumbling over post-Medieval battlefields, lobbing lead at one another and hoping to score a hit. It's a complex weaving of political intrigue, the tide of battle turning against our heroes, and tactical decisions made on the fly that leave you biting your black powder-stained fingernails. It's a story of betrayal on the field of honor, of self-sacrifice, and of the sacrificing of good men by bad for their benefit without a hint of remorse. Many times I wondered how Stack would have enough of his characters remaining to write a sequel, only to glimpse the brilliance behind the character calling the shots in the story, and that brilliance is Stack's.
This story was really just a hoot to read, and I'm looking forward to more installments and adventures of the soldiers of Kriegsturm.
February 23, 2024
I have been entertained with books that are far less well written. You go along with the plot and think "sure, this all makes sense" and you root for the main character. It's fine.
But Gil Stack has mastered the creation of heroes and villains in a world so like our own, you can't believe it didn't happen. I'm completely convinced that this is how the use of black powder weapons came to revolutionize warfare in our world too. It all fits; the politics and intrigue, the hard work and occasional bolt of pure luck, all the elements of a fully realized and immensely convincing world are here. This is a story that needs to be told, a little-examined era in warfare and the growth of nations that brought our world into the modern period. Heroism can never be confined to the days of knights.
What a start to a series, this one is sure to be a success.
But Gil Stack has mastered the creation of heroes and villains in a world so like our own, you can't believe it didn't happen. I'm completely convinced that this is how the use of black powder weapons came to revolutionize warfare in our world too. It all fits; the politics and intrigue, the hard work and occasional bolt of pure luck, all the elements of a fully realized and immensely convincing world are here. This is a story that needs to be told, a little-examined era in warfare and the growth of nations that brought our world into the modern period. Heroism can never be confined to the days of knights.
What a start to a series, this one is sure to be a success.
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