I always find light Infantry to be restricted too much in events in terms of spacing. When I am skirmishing I really don't want to be worrying about getting perfect spacing and just focus on shooting. Rifles can also take on line infantry in a melee, done it many times myself. Just run away until they are spread out and pick them off and take their bayonets.
MLG PR0 t1p here, pay attention.Any Line Inf/ Foot Guards worth their uniforms would never take on any enemies in private 1v1s, but would rather stick together and fight as a unit. As for the "running away", is that formal retreating, or just rambo spreading and, afterwards, Y0l0 charging?
As for rifle vs. cavalry, well, that would be a gangbang. Love to see what your short swords would do against light/heavy swords and sabres
They have big, equestrian animals, known as horses, too. Scary.
Rifles, Imo, are only good for those who can't melee, and only lead to time-wasting (15secs reload for a shot) and, if the target has been killed, a lovely urge for him/her to r4g3qu1t the fuck out of the game (waiting in an LB for like ten minutes the upteenth time gets quite annoying, believe me). That's why I really enjoy a rifle/musketoon butt vs. inf. bayonet duel, it really can be quite hilarious... (the butt was, thankfully, nerfed in the 1.104 NW update).
Irrelevant: As for the musketoon, well, I dont figure out why anyone would ever use it, other than to pointblank in those tight, narrow Killbox maps
But that's just me being mean, so feel free to disagree, Internet.