Couple of questions with mass_fire

[CraftyChicken]

Hey all, I've swapped out the volley_fire entry in unit to class abilities table. For the most part it works great but I've got a problem and a question with it.

First, this seems to only work in custom battles, while in the campaign, my units still default to volley_fire. I.E., line infantry in a custom battle will spread out before attacking and shoot en mass. In the campaign, that same exact line infantry will still do the same old first rank file ONLY. Any thoughts on what I need to do to correct this issue? It seems to me it may have something to do with the technology tree, not sure though.

Second, I would actually like to change mass_fire to a button like fire_and_advance. Anybody have any idea on how to go about this?

Thanks

[CraftyChicken]

I was able to figure out my first question. In unit_abilities table, the third entry is a true/false boolean. By setting mass_fire to false, from true, it nows works in campaign. From looking at those entries, I beleive that setting has something to do with wether or not the ability requires a researched techonogly. For example, chevaux_de_frise, earthworks, volley_fire and wooden_stakes are all set to false. In campaign, those are all ablities that do not require a specific techonogly to use. While rank_fire, fire_and_advance and all the bayonetts are set to true, and they of course require a specific techonolgy to use.

Just a guess, but I'm happy as it's all working fairly well.

[Rsty Bloodnok]

Just thought I'd let you know that in game, the label of "rank fire" is actually fire and advance and not fire by rank.

"Volley fire" I think is the fire by rank

[joedreck]

I thought about the fire option too. I would be nice to have the option to decide which fire they use. I think it should be possible to do that.

Hope you find it out and post it.