Empire total war civil war mod artillery

Thus it was entirely possible for infantry battalions to exhaust their their initial issue of cartridges long before the artillery exhausted theirs. Reserve ammunition could be brought up in caissons from the supply trains, but resupply could be a time consuming exercise at best in the general chaos and confusion of battle. Even with 65 rounds of ammunition, this only allowed perhaps 30 minutes of steady firing at two rounds per minute or 20 minutes if the men achieved 3 rounds per minute. Infantry on the march would normally have, in the case of the French, 35 rounds in the cartridge boxes with perhaps an additional 30 issued prior to going into action.

Perhaps half the ammunition was actually available immediately at the batteries allowing for two to two and half hours firing, with the rest being a reserve in the gun parks. At a rate of fire of about one round per minute, the field guns at least had ammunition for about 5 to 5.5 hours worth of steady firing. The ammunition carried in the Corps artillery parks had sufficient ammunition for 220 rounds per howitzer and between 314 and 330 rounds per field gun. However, on the eve of the battle of Friedland, Victor's 1st Corps of the Grand Armee had 30 guns on its inventory-2 x 12pdr guns, 22 x 6pdr guns, and six howitzers. There are painfully few actual records extant, to my knowlege at least, about what was issued on the average to artillery. I realize that this thread is getting to be fairly 'old' by now, but I would still like to add my own tuppence for what it might be worth. If they had a mind to improve siege gameplay, it should probably take more than a few cannon vollies to crash the walls lol. In addition, limbered artillary crew members will not suffer losses from enemy gun fire, which is a huge glitch that should have been fixed shortly after release. The obvious in game issue is how accurate rockets are, and there's just no possibility that they were accurate at all. So presumably up and down elevation was all these crude rockets were capable of for adjusting target range. That doesn't explain away why rockets fire backwards off their fixed launchers, and solid propellent kinda can't be adjusted for range. So I can kind of see why they did it, but it's still derp. You'd be more likely to have your batteries overrun or the like than to have the ammo supply give out 'normally' Don't get me wrong, it absolutely happened, but not that frequently. That and honestly I don't think there are that many cases of artillery running out of ammo in the Napoleonic Wars. Where they really could bring up a virtually unlimited amount of ammo to bombard more or less at will. Originally posted by Turtler:My gut feeling is that it's partially to balance out the relative inaccuracy and lack of damage they have in early game, and especially to cater to sieges.

Empire total war civil war mod artillery