a few quick thoughts before i hop off for the night. ill check in later in the day.
1. I would not start to mess with heavy cavalry, lancers and stuff. This would need later adjusting, but as it looks like a "final patch", experimenting would be wrong.
If lancers would be so overpowered, how people tend to say, there would be more lancerregiments out there and people would play lancers in tournaments. They do not.
Heavy cavalry has advantages and disadvantages, and in tournaments they always played a role, a much smaller than hussars, but yet.
well the tweaks would be very minor really. not like a complete overhaul. at least not the ones i am referring to. while i cant promise anything, i would like to have a test server where people can test things out, find any bugs we missed, or may of added when fixing other stuff. it could also be useful for any balance changes if there are any.
when i was talking about lancers, i was referring to a player or some players who are very very skilled at them.(more than i ever was with them) If played properly, other cav in a 1v1 fight wouldn't be able to get in range of them, or hit them. Now, playing at that level, fight after fight, especially in a cav gf, isn't easy, and even the best players make mistakes. They are very vulnerable if they make a mistake, thanks to not being able to block with a lance. with teamwork, you can really shut them down, thanks to their low "defence". Hussars are move forgiving, and imo, easier to learn. same with heavy cav to an extent.
there are some lancer regs out there, probably the most notable being the 1erPLG. there have been a few others on the NA side, where cav regs(and not detachments, because those are slaves to their lines) are not that common. It has been a while since i been to an EU LB or the cav gf servers. i wouldn't know how things are now a days when it comes to what kind of cav regs they have. if memory serves in the past, EU didn't like lancers and even banned them from some events. which of course would have a lasting effect over the years.
Hussars are the high level competitive used cavalryunit, making every hussar the same would be a big plus for the competitive part of the community. At the moment french hussars have longer sabres than other nations, if I am not mistaken.
i will look at the #s. ill try and change any of the light cav swords to be the same # if any are off. like the heavy cav, to me it just makes sense to have the same range for each class on their respective swords. i believe there may be some units as well,(prussian cur as an example) that do not get any armor like other nations do with their similar unit. unless of course this was all intended in the first place. i will look into it anyways.
3. It might not be historic, but think about giving britisch dragoons a better gun, right now dragoon regiments often complain and play hussars, when UK is chosen in a Linebattle.
4. Add rifles to france. Adding a complete new class would mean some work of course. Right now as admin I try to avoid france most of the time, and I assume others do that aswell, as the signed up rifle unit cant play their rifles. Often it ends in bad mood of the regiment and more work for the admin, as they take lights then and try to sneak bajonets in "accidently" and so on.
adding new weapons is not out the window, but idk if its likely. if more people would like it, maybe it can happen. i can ask vince and see what he says. most events i go to let the french light inf act as rifles with their "cav muskets"(more like carbines). they dont get the same cav musket russians do. with muskets, it varies. some still let them act as rifles, others make them act like light inf.
as i am tired, sorry in advance for any poor grammar, or other funny stuff. wanted to get one last post in before i called it good for the night.
