Rifle and Dragoon MP Balancing

Thread: Rifle and Dragoon MP Balancing

  1. Desufer's Avatar

    Desufer said:

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    Whenever one joins a multiplayer game, he is almost certainly faced with an enemy army that is at least 50% rifles and dragoons, which makes the game incredibly boring. This leads me to 2 questions:

    1.Is there any plan to change dragoon units so that each rider isn't a rambo clone who can reload and shoot at a full gallop with pinpoint accuracy with a range as high as skirmishers?

    2. Is there any plan to change rifles so that they can't continue massacring and retreating from line infantry until the line inf. gives up and goes home crying?
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  2. Invictus XII's Avatar

    Invictus XII said:

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    I hope limited ammo for lights, more limited than line inf, and light units like rifles should take twice as long to reload to balance things out in MP!
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  3. TheAussieDigger's Avatar

    TheAussieDigger said:

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    i reckon the best way to represent rifles historically are by cutting their unit size in half, so that in large theyre 30 men per unit rather than 60

    this means they have less of an effect but are still useful and i reckon play a similar role to what they did historically

     
  4. jolly_jellly said:

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    These two thing are on top of my annoyance list as well, especially #2.

    I have actually had games where end-game lasts 20minutes because 1 single rifle unit is retreating and shooting two/three line troops on the chase.

    It's made possible because rifles run a tad faster and don't tire so quickly as line. This way the rifles can keep retreating and shooting as long as the player wants, line(s) don't have any chance to return fire. I really hope this is corrected in Nap.
     
  5. RO Citizen's Avatar

    RO Citizen said:

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    I hope the Dragoons will have less acc and ammo.

    Rifles should have a damn long reload time, together with crappy melee abilities and a few units in ranks.

    If this isn't applied, then UK will still rule the world and France will die, because it has non-ranged-orientated Dragoons and no rifles...
    [Col] RO Citizen