I was doing a regular linebattle to test the new update.
A line infantry against one line infantry.
I perfectly knew that the ennemy was gonna fire when I will enter their range, make nearly no casualities and take ages to reload. That's why I did not fire my musketeers and gave them the order to charge when they entered ennemy's range.
The problem is that as they were charging they took already two fire by rank volleys, and the ennemy reloaded and fired exaclty when I was preparing too fire my devastating volleys and my men routed not killing a single ennemy.
I did not understand what happened until I take a look in the kv_rules tables :
Fire by rank : 81 reload bonus.
My first reaction? Create a mod that deletes all these bonuses !
Fire on wall reload modifier => 0
Fire by rank reload modifier => 0
Fire and advance reload modifier => 10
Platoon fire reload modifier => 5
Improved platoon fire reload modifier => 10
(the last three would have been useless without these bonuses...)
HOW TO INSTALL ?
Add :
mod "reloadspeed.pack"; in the top of your user.script in Empire Total War/Data/IS folder
Put :
reloadspeed.pack in your Empire Total War/Data folder
HOW TO UNINSTALL ?
Remove :
mod"reloadspeed.pack"; from the top of your user.script
reloadspeed.pack from your Empire Total War/Data folder