Realistic Infantry range mod

[lilbrit73]

Raises the Regular infantry range to 150,lights to 175, and skirmishers to 200 paces away, as this is more is more realistic, then accuracy comes to play.
Simply extract to your data folder,if that doesn't work place it on your desktop,drag to your directory and extract it from there.
Activate with mod manager or write:mod "inf_range_mod.pack" in your user.script.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=INDIQ62R
If you have any mod request or issues feel free to PM me.
Truly yours,
lilbrit73.

[!1ALiluM]

thanks for the helpful thread man. Good luck to you

[lilbrit73]

thanks for the helpful thread man. Good luck to you

Thanks mate.

[airborne guy]

Nice mod, I directed a few gamers to you already.

[lilbrit73]

Nice mod, I directed a few gamers to you already.

Much appreciated mate, if you ever need any help, just PM me.

[Stepy]

good mod thanks very much !

[GAIUS GERMANICUS CAESAR]

Where did you get the info for your mod? It's not that I don't believe you an ETW modder has come up with about the same numbers.Could you help me with some weapon stats sources please? It would be greatly appreciated. So, I can get the proper ranges other weapons in the game and others that might not be in the like Mortier and others like it were widespread in 1700 was a grenade launching Volley gun but it's more suited for ETW. I'm pretty sure that in Nappy's time they were no longer used much if at all.

I keep finding the same old stuff that backs the CA numbers (can't blame them for this inaccuracy) or I'm horrible researcher. I found one source a while back that went along with with your numbers but It was from Wikipedia I think and didn't cover much, not a good idea to single source from there.

Great work BTW

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[Jam3]

A smoothbore musket is essentially a shotgun, theres alot of inaccuracy mainly in the fact that the game really represents the firing of a single ball from each musket when in reality your looking at several balls and potentialy pellets or buck. George Washington believed in a combination so much that he made the standard cartridge issue for the continental army "buck and ball" consisting of 2 balls and buckshot. A musket just like a shotgun is unbelievably deadly at 40 yards or less (which the game woefuly does not represent, think of the conical firing arc of a shotgun multiply that times aa few hundred men standing in close rank firing in a unison volley = pretty much everything in 40 yards is dead) but the ammunition can travel and penetrate human bone and flesh to around 400 yards ( the balls not the buck ). With range it lost penetrating power so your looking at the ideal compromise between range and accuracy at around 160 yards max effective range.

Now once you start talking rifles which were few and far between particularly in the european theatre until the mid to late 19th century you get into good accuracy at 400 yards in the right hands and penetrating power out to 600-800 yards.

160 yards was still "in the manual" during the civil war and although in some respects it was still relevant the rifling of muskets combined with the advent of the expanding barrel gripping "minnie" ball made the penetration range good to around 1200 yards. Thats why while the fighting was still age of rifles close being behind the lines you could still get hit and killed from a stray shot.

[lilbrit73]

A smoothbore musket is essentially a shotgun, theres alot of inaccuracy mainly in the fact that the game really represents the firing of a single ball from each musket when in reality your looking at several balls and potentialy pellets or buck. George Washington believed in a combination so much that he made the standard cartridge issue for the continental army "buck and ball" consisting of 2 balls and buckshot. A musket just like a shotgun is unbelievably deadly at 40 yards or less (which the game woefuly does not represent, think of the conical firing arc of a shotgun multiply that times aa few hundred men standing in close rank firing in a unison volley = pretty much everything in 40 yards is dead) but the ammunition can travel and penetrate human bone and flesh to around 400 yards ( the balls not the buck ). With range it lost penetrating power so your looking at the ideal compromise between range and accuracy at around 160 yards max effective range.

Now once you start talking rifles which were few and far between particularly in the european theatre until the mid to late 19th century you get into good accuracy at 400 yards in the right hands and penetrating power out to 600-800 yards.

160 yards was still "in the manual" during the civil war and although in some respects it was still relevant the rifling of muskets combined with the advent of the expanding barrel gripping "minnie" ball made the penetration range good to around 1200 yards. Thats why while the fighting was still age of rifles close being behind the lines you could still get hit and killed from a stray shot.

That reminds me is there a mod for better musket/bayonet graphics?

[yazzazin]

@lilbrit yea there is http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=411117

[yazzazin]

its there a mod this that shortens the infantry range?(no historical basis) just movie stuff

[theodorsr]

Hello, I love your mod but i think you have forgotten to change some cavalary that can shoot.

And another thing, coud you change the range of artillery to? And also maybe ships?

Edit: Nevermind, I have made my own mod

[DaemonSpade]

Nothing changed I compared it with or without this mod but still the same I put mod "inf_range_mod.pack"; in the user script and put the file in data but no changed help?

[DaemonSpade]

bump