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Originally Posted by KnightFandragon
Musket mod? so like revolutionary war/Napolean era warfare? I find war pre WWII to be kinda boring and kinda retarded...that whole line up in a row and shoot till 1 side gives up is boring to play, you just line up and fire.......I can do that in the editor now haha. but I guess some people like the idea and thats cool =D
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That is a grossly oversimplified and common misconception of warfare during the Napoleonic era and times before it. If you were to look at any given battle from that era, not once would you read that men simply stood in large lines and shot at eachother till one side gave way. The logical answer as to why is simply that in such a scenario, numbers would be the only asset, and casualties would be horrific beyond what generals of the day would accept for victory. Furthermore, you said "pre WWII" well I can assure you men before the age of gunpowder did not stand in large lines and shoot, nor did the trench orientated western armies with machine guns and tanks do so in WWI. Lastly, if ever there was to be a misconception of the warfare during the age of muskets, all of it would be drowned out by shifting focus away from Europe, and over to its North American colonies of the time. French Indian war ring a bell? Im sure they formed the biggest lines in that war
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Now as to the purpose of the mod, it would function as KageToraUK has mentioned, as a small scale skirmish. Like those commonly found in the Peninsular War or French Indian War. Also, Korsakov829, increasing the reload times and animations would more or less do it, but for the sake of tactical possibilities and fun, cavalry in the form of modded vehicles, and grenades in the form of, well, modded grenades. Besides what i've mentioned, one major aspect of the warfare of the period was melee, which I remember some Zombie mod had managed to produce a way to get soldiers to deliberately use multi purpose weapons in melee without being already next to the opponent. Oh and you mentioned there are mods like this in developement? Could you give a link to a forum thread or website for this?