Naval gun accuracy settings?

[Otterbear]

I played a naval battle,(I think it was on the third episode of "Road to Independence"), and the ships cannon were laser accurate. Not a single cannonball missed. On EITHER side. Now when I play naval battles, I'm lucky if ONE cannonball HITS! I fear somebody has "adjusted" the accuracy of ship cannons in this mod, in an effort to add realism. Does anybody know where this "adjustment" has been made, and if it effects ALL artillery or just naval guns? I'd like to start by reverting by to vanilla, and then adjusting to fit my idea of fun and realistic.

I am using a version of Darthmod, but that is not really the issue.

[poa]

patch2.pack/db/unit_stats_naval_tables_naval/unit_stats_naval

I deleted all the lr (long range) suffix on sloops etc, and set gunnery on heavy 1st rates to 95, loading skill 40,
and made a falling scale according to size
1st rates 80 40
2nd rates 60 40
3rd rates 50 40
4th rates 40 30
Galleon = 4th rates
5th rates 30 30
fluyts = 5th or 6th rates, or maybe i set it to 25, 30, between 5th & 6th rates
...etc
lowest is dhow, 5, 5, and 2nd lowest is indiaman & light galleys, 10, 10 IIRC, and sloops=brigs = 20, 20

a battle result, with 2 heavy 1st rates, i beat 7 galleons + some rabble,
but with two normal 1st rates, i lost against same 7 galleons, on auto-resolve,
to give you an idea of new relative balance.

another autoresolve battle result: with vanilla, i went up against two ships, a 4th + a 5th rate,
with my fleet of 6 2nd rates, of which one was an admiral.
The best i could get was losing two 2nd rates, with my remaining ships being damaged to below half health points.
Now with the new gamedata, a few of my 2nd rates suffered minor damage, while sinking those smaller ones

this was done in vanilla to rectify some serious failure with regards to auto-resolve,
while adhering to my gf dictum that size matters,
but should work out similar in DM


following gave satisfactory result

core_gunner_markmanship // core_gunner_loading_skill

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[Otterbear]

Thanks Pao! I will give this a try. At least now I know where to begin.