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Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 4:03 pm
by ironsight
Norb wrote:
Don't put all the blame on me! We're a team here, blame everyone
OHH NO__:ohmy: :woohoo:
MOB RULE!!__ :silly:
Soon as i hear any talk of "gettin a rope" :dry: i'm leaving Dodge! :laugh: :laugh:
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Mon Oct 27, 2008 11:49 pm
by Hancock the Superb
I've been swayed. JC doesn't have any blame (or does he?):laugh:
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:35 am
by JC Edwards
Hancock the Superb wrote:
I've been swayed. JC doesn't have any blame (or does he?):laugh:
Hey!! Karma for Karma my stumblin', bumblin' bluebelly!;)
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:42 am
by Hancock the Superb
Up or down?
(I uped it, more because of all your good ideas...)
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:45 am
by JC Edwards
Hancock the Superb wrote:
Up or down?
(I uped it, more because of all your good ideas...)
Aye! There's a good laddy.
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2008 1:47 am
by Hancock the Superb
Ze luck of ze irish!:cheer: , not that I'm Irish.
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 6:47 am
by Hancock the Superb
Someone just bumped me up to three, I wonder who. My allience is growing towards this other person...
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 8:36 pm
by ironsight
Hey Hancock, if the karma bumps mean that much to you, i'll give you one too!:ohmy:
Doesn't cost me anything!
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 11:31 pm
by Hancock the Superb
There is now a four way split. I wonder who I should choose to side with?:cheer: I don't need the Karma, folks, just doing it for fun:lol:
Re:Regimental Frontage and Rifle Range
Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:47 am
by Kerflumoxed
nimitstexan wrote:
A couple of question about he game scale:
First, will regiments and batteries occupy a realistic amount of frontage relative to the scale of the terrain?
Second, any thought on addressing the default rifle range, raising it a bit? Everything I have read indicates that ACW regiments often opened fire in excess of 200 yds, and firefights under 50 yards(which were somewhat common in TC2) seemed to generally be considered extremely close range for sustained combat by ACW regimental and brigade commanders.
Not meaning to "throw the proverbial monkey wrench" but a new book just published by the University Press of Kansas provides a new insight into the use of the rifle-muskets. According to a current review, "The convential view holds . . . (the rifle-musket) deepen(ed) their killing zone from 100 to 500 yards" while continuing to use the "outmoded linear tactics, dooming attacking troops to horrendous casualties."
Author Earl J. Hess contends that poor markmanship training "and the rifle-musket's parabolic arc actually made the weapon less deadly." Further, "After surveying twenty-four battles, Hess discovered that infantry's average firing range was ninety-four yards, which was no better than the old smoothbores."
Book is titles
The Rifle Musket in Civil War Combat. While this does not address the thread above, it might be considered for accuracy tables.