Changing Skirmisher formations
Posted: Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:17 pm
All,
How difficult, (or even possible), is it to change the way skirmishers deploy? I ask because the current formation, while historically correct, is far to unweildy to use during the game.
Example - Gunship has done a brilliant job with incorperating the light troops into the French brigades by combining all the Light Companies from each Battalion into what would be a Coverged Voltigeur Battalion. Fine there except the bloody thing streches half way across the field and takes forever to redeploy, totally negating their usefullness. This is with a 300 man Battalion. With a unit from SOWGB, say a USSS battalion, it gets even worse. I think most players shy away from skirmishers because of this. It is very hard to get them to DO anything, except advance and run away.
I propose this, if it can be done - Change the formation to a single line of men, with perhaps a 1 or 2 man interval between them.
The advantages to this are these - the unit covers a relatively small distance on the field, still looks like a skirmisher foration, they are easier to control and players might use them.
There IS historical precedent for this. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Major German powers, adverse to letting their desertion-prone men deploy in an extended order formation, (and thus easier to desert from), used what was called an "Open Order" formation. This allowed a semi-skirmish formation with more control by the Officers. Flash forward to today - When I served in the Marines, we had a drill formation where we moved into an open-order formation on the Drill Field. It was for Parade purposes only, but it was a formation, esentially opening up the distance between each man roughly 3-4 feet. Would have made an excellent semi-skirmish formation.
So, can this be done, should it be done, and...your thoughts Gentlemen?
Jack B)
P.S. - Needless to say, this should be done as a Mod.
How difficult, (or even possible), is it to change the way skirmishers deploy? I ask because the current formation, while historically correct, is far to unweildy to use during the game.
Example - Gunship has done a brilliant job with incorperating the light troops into the French brigades by combining all the Light Companies from each Battalion into what would be a Coverged Voltigeur Battalion. Fine there except the bloody thing streches half way across the field and takes forever to redeploy, totally negating their usefullness. This is with a 300 man Battalion. With a unit from SOWGB, say a USSS battalion, it gets even worse. I think most players shy away from skirmishers because of this. It is very hard to get them to DO anything, except advance and run away.
I propose this, if it can be done - Change the formation to a single line of men, with perhaps a 1 or 2 man interval between them.
The advantages to this are these - the unit covers a relatively small distance on the field, still looks like a skirmisher foration, they are easier to control and players might use them.
There IS historical precedent for this. During the Napoleonic Wars, the Major German powers, adverse to letting their desertion-prone men deploy in an extended order formation, (and thus easier to desert from), used what was called an "Open Order" formation. This allowed a semi-skirmish formation with more control by the Officers. Flash forward to today - When I served in the Marines, we had a drill formation where we moved into an open-order formation on the Drill Field. It was for Parade purposes only, but it was a formation, esentially opening up the distance between each man roughly 3-4 feet. Would have made an excellent semi-skirmish formation.
So, can this be done, should it be done, and...your thoughts Gentlemen?
Jack B)
P.S. - Needless to say, this should be done as a Mod.