I finally got some handgunners. My first chance to use them was against some rebels outside Zagreb. I moved them up to pointblank range from some Croat axemen and had them open fire. After a couple volleys, the axemen broke and routed. The handgunners didn't cause many casualties but they opened a nice hole in the rebels line.
I am assuming the handgunners cause a substantial morale drop of targets as they were new weapons just appearing. But does the morale effect ever go away as the world gets used to having firearms on the battlefield? Is there only a short timeframe in which the novelty has a morale impact?
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