Comment on Empire by LotharZhou

It was because identification. Bright colours help to recognize friend/enemy in smoke from gunpowder. Battles in 18th and part of 19th century was fought and won with line combat system, when two armies stand face to face in lines and soldiers shoot at the enemies. Rifles in that times was very inaccurate and soldiers needed a lot of time to reaload their rifles to shoot once more. And a lot of shots makes a lot of smoke, which make sometimes recognizing of another soldiers immposible without a bright colours of their uniforms.
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