Artillery amunition

[NY Cavalry]

I have read this before, but am unable to find it now.
What is the calculation that is used to represent the rebel artillery's fuse problem ? Is it three in four don't explode? This is only for "shells" ? How is the game programed to use each type of ammunition? Basically, I'm asking about shrapnel and shell.


Thanks

[nyy6242]

I am not sure what the game is set at for rebel artillery fuse problems. But I do know that during the civil war, upwards of 1 in 3 projectiles fired from rebel cannon had problems such as:
1. Not exploding
2. Exploding too soon
3. Exploding too late
4. Defective enough to not even fire

More often than not, it was problem # 1.

- JNewton

[Shirkon]

I have read this before, but am unable to find it now.
What is the calculation that is used to represent the rebel artillery's fuse problem ? Is it three in four don't explode? This is only for "shells" ? How is the game programed to use each type of ammunition? Basically, I'm asking about shrapnel and shell.


Thanks

We use a table in the Logistics folder called munitions.csv to model the Confederate fuse problem along with the artillery.csv. In the artillery.csv each type of cannon is identified along with an unique ammo_type_ID for the 4 different ammo types each cannon can fire. For example for the 12lb Napoleon CSA for solid shot the id is IDS_AMMO_12lb_SB_Solid, for canister it's IDS_AMMO_SB_Canister, shell is IDS_AMMO_12lb_SB_Shell_CSA and shrapnel is IDS_AMMO_12lb_SB_Shrapnel_CSA. These ids are then identified in the munitions.csv and one of the factors in that table for each ammo type is a column labled Probability of kill if hit (percentage chance that a hit by that round will result in a kill). For most of the CSA munition types this is .2 or 20% while for USA munitions of the same type it's .6 or 60%. This difference of .2 versus .6 represents the CSA fuse reliability issue. Probably a more indepth explanation then you were looking for but this is how the fuse issue is modelled.

[NY Cavalry]

That is exactly what I was wanting. Thanks.