Blood and Iron - General discussion.

[Willhelm]

So the Prussian artillery functions much like both cannon and howitzer correct? Firing a round shot which explodes on impact?

It fires an explosive shell of a howitzer (although more powerful) with a flat trajectory of a cannon, it's not breech loading in game because at the moment i can't cut out the ramrod stage, but it's faster to reload than the french muzzle loading cannon to at least simulate being breech loading.

Is it possible to make the ramrod invincible and replacing the animation with something else that can better simulate the breechloading?

Yes, but the French cannon isn't breech loading, it's muzzleloading with a ramrod, so you see my dilemma.

[Wismar]

So the Prussian artillery functions much like both cannon and howitzer correct? Firing a round shot which explodes on impact?

It fires an explosive shell of a howitzer (although more powerful) with a flat trajectory of a cannon, it's not breech loading in game because at the moment i can't cut out the ramrod stage, but it's faster to reload than the french muzzle loading cannon to at least simulate being breech loading.

Is it possible to make the ramrod invincible and replacing the animation with something else that can better simulate the breechloading?

Yes, but the French cannon isn't breech loading, it's muzzleloading with a ramrod, so you see my dilemma.

So it's not possible to have different reload animation for different cannon types?

[Willhelm]

They all use the same animations and sequences, I don't know how to change it.

[von_Bismarck]

Yeah, the prussian artillery should have faster reload, that will at least give the sensation of a breech-loading artillery.

[kpetschulat]

Were the French guns equipped with percussion shells as well, or at least something similar to the Prussian guns? Or, did they use standard round shot?

[Willhelm]

Were the French guns equipped with percussion shells as well, or at least something similar to the Prussian guns? Or, did they use standard round shot?

Both, but their percussion shells were no were near as reliable as the Prussian. In the mod they have solid shot, the cannon accuracy is very much improved though, and also has a higher velocity. I reduced the random offset from 20 to 2 and increased velocity from 90 m/s to 120 m/s. I'd like more but it starts making the cannon balls go above your reticule. They were rifled cannons not smoothbore if you're wondering why.

[kpetschulat]

Alright, sounds good!

[Wismar]

There's a small cannon type (can't remember name) that is ussually mounted on railings and such.
That cannon has one less step when reloading. Maybe you can use that one to work with?

[Galadhion]

Can you change the area on the cannon that can be interacted with to load it? Because if so you could just have all the animations for the Krupp interact with the rear of the cannon and make the ramrod phase extremely fast and use either an invisible ramrod or a small rope. The latter assuming that they used ropes to fire the Krupp.

[Wismar]

Can you change the area on the cannon that can be interacted with to load it? Because if so you could just have all the animations for the Krupp interact with the rear of the cannon and make the ramrod phase extremely fast and use either an invisible ramrod or a small rope. The latter assuming that they used ropes to fire the Krupp.

You can reload the cannon from the rear in vanilla so the direction doesn't matter.

[Polski_Jerbil]

I take it there will be linebattles and events in this mod?

[von_Bismarck]

I take it there will be linebattles and events in this mod?

There will be events, obviously, but there won't be linebattles at all, in the franco-prussian war there were repeating rifles, the artillery was extremely powerful and there were deployed 310 machine guns, so please tell me, with all that technology and even more do you want to make a linebattle?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3haWrRtrY[/youtube]

We have already had this discussion, I don't want to have it again. 

[Betaknight]

Pew pew pew pew pew. Im just laying on the floor, dead from all those bullets

[Willhelm]

There's a small cannon type (can't remember name) that is ussually mounted on railings and such.
That cannon has one less step when reloading. Maybe you can use that one to work with?

That cannon can't be moved though, I don't think the Prussians want static artillery, but I will look into it. North and South has 3 artillery pieces so it must be possible.

I take it there will be linebattles and events in this mod?

There will be events, obviously, but there won't be linebattles at all, in the franco-prussian war there were repeating rifles, the artillery was extremely powerful and there were deployed 310 machine guns, so please tell me, with all that technology and even more do you want to make a linebattle?

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3haWrRtrY[/youtube]

We have already had this discussion, I don't want to have it again. 

They didn't have repeating rifles, well not the main forces, they had single shot breech loading rifles which could fire about 12 shots a minute, compared to a muskets 4, if a good soldier can fire one shot every 15 seconds.

[Galadhion]

I think it'd be more of a hybrid between WW1 and line combat. So line formations and discipline, but making use of cover and environment.