Blood and Iron is a Roblox first-person shooter taking place in the Napoleonic Wars, created by CoderQwerty. It is not to be confused with Guts & Blackpowder, a similar game that was inspired by Blood and Iron.
Two teams of up to 20 players each fight each other in a team deathmatch (TDM) gamemode across almost 30 maps. Combatants include the big players like the United Kingdom, Russia, Prussia, and, of course, France, while other, lesser-known factions like the Duchy of Warsaw, Spain, and various German states are also playable.
Players can play as one of several different units, such as Infantry, Skirmishers, Artillery, Cavalry, or Militia. They can also select different classes, including as an infantryman, an officer, a sapper, or a musician. All classes have a melee weapon.
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- Infantry: The standard unit. It is composed of rankers (the standard rank-in-file soldiers, armed with muskets and swords), officers (who carry pistols, sabres, and spyglasses), drummers and fifers (who play drums and flutes and are armed with a sword; their music gives reload buffs to nearby friendly teammates), sappers (who can build structures and are armed with slow-to-use, but deadly axes), and colour bearers (who wave the team's flag and give a melee boost).
- Skirmishers: The elite infantry, with more accurate guns. It is composed of rankers (variously armed with muskets/rifles), officers (who are similarly armed to Infantry officers), and buglers (who serve the same role as Infantry musicians).
- Militia: An ad-hoc class available only to select nations.note . They consist of rankers and officers (who are identical to Infantry save for their possession of random civilian tools like sickles, scythes, etc.).
- Cavalry: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Composed of the same classes as Skirmishers, except on horseback.
- Artillery: Artillerymen, who have no firearms, but can use the powerful cannon. Composed only of rankers (who spawn with an artillery rammer as well as a sabre) and officers (who serve similarly to regular officers, but give a reload buff to artillery rankers).
- Infantry classes
- Line Infantry: The standard infantryman, carrying a musket. The musket has a bayonet attached, but the weapon is inaccurate as a result.
- Light Infantry: Similar to Line Infantry, but does not carry a bayonet. To compensate, the Light Infantry musket has a quicker reload and better range.
- Riflemen: Have rifles, which are accurate and have long range. However, they take a long time (15 seconds) to reload.
- Militia classes
- Irregular: Armed with weapons (often improvised) chosen at random. Only available to select countries (Russia, Warsaw, Spain).
- Cavalry classes
- Hussar: Has the quickest horse, but the lowest health.
- Lancer: Have medium-speed horses and swords.
- Dragoon: Possess a slow horse, but can carry firearms.
- Artillery classes
- Foot Artillery
Blood and Iron provides examples of:
- Acceptable Breaks from Reality: In the map Foggy Marshland, you can drown if you stay in the marsh for too long, even if your head is above the water. This avoids players camping in the water.
- Anti-Infantry: Essentially the purpose of cavalry, especially the Lancer and Dragoon classes. They can run down a stray ranker and easily slash them to death.
- Artillery can also do this, potentially cutting down several infantrymen with a single canister shot.
- Awesome, but Impractical: The Line Infantry musket is the classic weapon of the Napoleonic Wars, and it has a bayonet which is helpful in CQB. However, the bayonet makes the aim extremely poor, and the reload time is lengthy, to say the least.
- Everything Fades: Subverted. The bodies of the fallen never despawn, making scenes like this common across the battlefield.
- The Musketeer: Rankers of the Infantry and Skirmisher units.
- Player Mooks: Every soldier in the game is nondescript and expendable. Besides customizing their appearance, you can't affect the player character.
