Rifled Naval Cannons?

[ceff7711]

What exactly does this tech do for my navy?

[Okmin]

Historically, rifled... well, rifles, were more accurate than plain smoothbore guns. Since a cannonball is pretty much an oversized musketball, that should apply to cannons as well.

[ceff7711]

Right. I was looking for some sort of % accuracy or something.

[Okmin]

In that case I have no idea might need to look through some files for that.

[Jammerd]

In reality you must ram a patched ball down a rifled muzzleloader.

Since flintlock rifled guns are substantially harder to load than smooth bores, slowing firing rates to perhaps 1/2 or more, I would expect rifled muzzle loader naval cannons would mean your ships woould be frantically trying to ramrod a 24 pounder ball down for 1/2 and hour or so, while the enemy took you by the stern...

it wouldn't be pretty.

Jammer

[Okmin]

I looked through the tech and unit stat tables: seems that the tech just gives you prestige, so I guess you could skip it.

frantically trying to ramrod a 24 pounder ball down for 1/2 and hour or so

Give the tech to the AI and watch epic-length naval battles

[daniu]

Well, you need that tech to research Sheet Lead Cartridges, which give -5% misfire and -5% reload time...

[ceff7711]

Well, you need that tech to research Sheet Lead Cartridges, which give -5% misfire and -5% reload time...

Thanks