I'm trying to hold in the rage this stupid thread causes me but oh well.
You all say this mod is biased to the UK? The UK who definitely had very powerful rifles which could be reloaded very quickly with an experienced infantry unit delivering 16 volleys a minute in reality. An individual unit could fire quicker but at loss of accuracy. The UK who quite definitely had alot of mounted infantry and a very good lancer unit and rather good artillery. They also had Gatling Guns which we haven't implemented yet.
The Zulu, whom researching is a helluva lot harder, were by and large armed with cowhide shields and an assortment of spears and axes with a very small amount of old percussion rifles and muskets with a tiny amount of modern Martini Henry rifles. They had a very small amount of mounted men who were primarily used as scouts. Though they did form the vanguard and did fight at Hlobane.
Now in the bots gamemode we give the Zulu a very large amount of bots, less than they'd have in reality, but it is still always enough.
We've made them as quick as we can and given them excellent melee and throwing skills, though less for throwing for the bots because the AI do always aim perfectly, it's just down to their throwing skill that they miss sometimes.
Now at the battle of Isandlwana the British force was slaughtered 20-1 and were slaughtered with very few survivors.
At Ulundi there 15000 Zulu against about 5500 British/auxiliaries and the Zulu were slaughtered.
Battle of Nyezane,about 5000 British and 12000 Zulu. The Zulu were repulsed.
Battle of Girgindlovu,11000 Zulu against 5500 British. The Zulu were slaughtered.
Battle of Khambula, 20000 Zulu against 2100 British. The Zulu were repulsed with minimal loss to the British.
Battle of Hlobane, 675 British vs 25000 Zulu,only 2000 of which actually engaged before the British force escaped with about 250 losses. British were routed with minimal Zulu loss.
Battle of Ntombe, around 650 Zulu against 104 British. About 8/10 of the British were killed with minimal Zulu loss. This was a surprise night attack.
Rorkes Drift,130 British against 4000 Zulu. Humiliating Zulu defeat.
So by that we can see that the only times the Zulu actually defeated the British only when they A)Heavily outnumbered them B)Completely surprised them and C)Caught them in the open.
And as Khambula shows even the numbers made little difference when the British were entrenched.
So if anything, the Zulu are overpowered as the British seem to get defeated at 3-1 not, let alone 20-1.
So do you want us to just throw historical accuracy to the wind and give every Zulu a gun and plenty of ammo? Shall we give them Rhino cavalry?
Now we are trying to work with event hoster's to make unique events like a Convoy ambush which. But what we need more than anything else is someone who does know how to make new or change gamemodes. We want to give the Zulu more than one life in battles but this is hard to do. Blucher is a good coder but what we need for the balance you all seek is an advanced coder.
