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Kerflumoxed wrote:

Shirkon wrote:

Marching Thru Georgia wrote: Another thing to consider for your #4. If you capture the gun you must also capture the limber otherwise you have a 2400 lb paperweight. The ammo for the gun is on the limber and it's much easier to move by hand then the gun. Without the limber you have no ammo or fuses for the guns so they are useless for the current fight. And without at least some artillerists to guide the infantry you want to man the gum, most wouldn't know what to do anyway. Loading and firing a CW cannon isn't anything like loading and firing the rifle musket and most infantry would probably miss some important steps, like poking the friction primer through the powder bag to ensure the burning primer touched off the powder charge. or covering the touch hole while swabbing so that no air gets to the burning embers when swabbing out the barrel before putting a new charge in. Is bad if you don't have all those embers out and shoving in a bag of black powder that explodes because of them, it could really ruin the day of the person ramming the charge home.

Acually, the friction primer was not used to "prick" the powderbag. Rather, they were issued a "Priming Wire" (an .8 diameter piece of steel with a sharpened point on one end and a loop for the middle finger on the other to aid in extracting from the vent) to open the bag through the vent. After being "pricked" the Friction Primer was inserted. Also, the Friction Primer was not long enough to reach the powder bag.

J

Yeah, I know, but when I was replying I couldn't for the life of me think of what it was called. Had one of those "Duh" moments. :blink:

"P.S. This still does not address the Cannister fire OVER, THROUGH and AROUND friendly INF to the arty's front"

That's being addressed as a separate issue in our bug reports. We're working on it.

I had another thought. Whether it's good mostly depends on how the code is set up, but here it is:

If a gun takes a certain amount of casualties, it loses it's ability to limber. This represents the horses being hit, as they so frequently did, and also give incentive to keep guns away from the front. I've read plenty of civil war accounts where they had to leave guns behind because they took fire and lost horses/limbers, and the enemy were too close.

The actual threshold where this happens can be used to help balance it, I'm thinking somewhere from 4-6 casualties. (after 9 casualties that gun routs entirely from the field).

I only thought of this because of the way guns work after being captured, they can't be limbered, so whatever changes to make that happen, it may be possible to do the same thing here, again if this is a good idea depends mostly on how complicated it would be to implement.