Colt revolving rifle

The Colt revolving rifle is a revolver-type repeating rifle that appeared in both games. Of all the repeating rifles, it is the only revolving type (the Henry and the Spencer are lever action).

Features
The rifle has a 5-round cylinder magazine that fires .56 caliber bullets. In the game, it can be reloaded by swapping loaded cylinder magazines than loading them one at a time like a proto- modern magazine, making it faster to reload.

It has the smallest magazine in all repeating rifle, and is usually the less powered and less accurate of the bunch with its sights.

Real life
The colt revolving rifle was the first repeating rifle adopted for use by the Union in the Civil War. However, multiple problems made it to be disliked by those who used it. Holding the gun in a typical rifle stance resulted in leaking gas from the gaps between the cylinders to burn a person's left (or right for left haded users) forearm. Overheating can also result in all rounds to fire all at once that can lead to devastating effects for the user (aka chain-fire).

While all these problems can be fixed simply by putting bees wax on the cylinder to prevent chain fire and using the trigger guard to fire the gun with both hands, all these maintenance made it less favorable for the soldiers than the Henry or the Spencer rifle.

However, it did performed better than a muzzle-loader or a single shot rifle in battle. The weapon performed superbly in combat, seeing action with the 21st Ohio Volunteer Infantry Union forces at Snodgrass Hill during the Battle of Chickamauga during the American Civil War. The volume of fire from this weapon proved to be so useful that the Confederate forces were convinced that they were attacking an entire division, not just a single regiment, but still, the Ohioans ran out of ammunition, and surrendered.