Colonel Kraken
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Similar for Unit Ideas. This is a compilation of unedited ideas I copy and pasted.
"Either the Merrimack or Monitor could have singlehandedly destoyed the compbined French and British fleets from the Napoleonic Wars earlier in the century."
That says to me that Ironclads need to be much better than they are now, and post Ironclads even better than that.
Ironclad guns were actually greatly different. Check out this quote: "By the mid 1850's the greatly improved cast iron guns, combiined with improvements in shell projectiles, had greatly increased the power of naval ordance. This was dramatically demonstrated in 1853, when a Russian squadron armed with the new shell-firing guns destroyed a Turkish fleet at Sinope. This demonstrated the devastating potential of improved naval ordnance, and revealed the total vulnerability of wooden ships to these weapons."
(I also wouldn't be averse to getting rid of the historically inaccurate (and very lamely named!) Chinese Rider unit, and, lacking a better graphic, giving them the Crossbow unit earlier than any other civ, which certainly would be worth a lot (or make theirs stronger, as the Age of Kings game does). The Chinese were using Crossbowmen as big parts of their armies back in 300 BC! Then the Rider graphic could be used for the Cataphract unit. We also have a Junk unit graphic we could use as UU, though Crossbow was really their "thing")
Cataphract (intermediate step between Horseman and Knight, the numbers of which are the very different 4A 1D and 8A 6D in your scheme of things. In fact, Horseman is weaker than Chariot - that's not right. Also comes with Stirrup)
If you want a Musketman Rifleman intermediate, then Fusilier is a better name. The way I understand it, Grenadiers were essentially elite Fusiliers, not really different in weaponry or anything else, just the elite instead of veteran or regular, in Civ3 terms.
If you do have Fusilier, then all the disparate types should upgrade into that, not Rifleman, cos its with Fusilier that the variety of Musketman, Pikeman, Crossbow, Longbow, etc ended. Pikemen/Halberdiers were still being used up until that point (1700s) as a more defensive thing, while Musketmen were more offensive. Maybe that's what you were thinking with Rifleman and Grenadier, but there really wasn't the offensive / defensive infantry split at that time like there was pre-Fusilier.
Probably equal offensive and defensive numbers, or slight defensive advantage. Big jump from them to Rifleman. The big change here from Musketman is Fusiliers have ring bayonets, which allow them to be offensive and defensive, whereas Musketmen needed to be mixed with Pikemen to have them defendable.
"The introduction of the rifle musket and its conoidal bullet in the decade between 1850 and 1860 was the have the greatest immediate and measurable revolutionary impact on war of any new weapon or technological development of war before or since. When and if tactical nuclear weapons appear on the battlefield, presumably they will have an even greater effect. But certainly not even the high explosive shells, airplanes or tanks of the 20th century were to have effects of contemporary scale and significance comparable to the rifled musket in the early days."
I would boost that and Fusiliers to 2 move, and then adjust other numbers around that time accordingly (Artillery now 2, Howitzer 3, Cavalry, Tank 3). That would be more historically accurate too (modern inventions like canned food, changes in signalling and depot systems allowing troops more mobility even if they don't have railroads and roads to use. Napoleon was really the first to take advantage of this increased mobility even for infantry).
"Either the Merrimack or Monitor could have singlehandedly destoyed the compbined French and British fleets from the Napoleonic Wars earlier in the century."
That says to me that Ironclads need to be much better than they are now, and post Ironclads even better than that.
Ironclad guns were actually greatly different. Check out this quote: "By the mid 1850's the greatly improved cast iron guns, combiined with improvements in shell projectiles, had greatly increased the power of naval ordance. This was dramatically demonstrated in 1853, when a Russian squadron armed with the new shell-firing guns destroyed a Turkish fleet at Sinope. This demonstrated the devastating potential of improved naval ordnance, and revealed the total vulnerability of wooden ships to these weapons."
(I also wouldn't be averse to getting rid of the historically inaccurate (and very lamely named!) Chinese Rider unit, and, lacking a better graphic, giving them the Crossbow unit earlier than any other civ, which certainly would be worth a lot (or make theirs stronger, as the Age of Kings game does). The Chinese were using Crossbowmen as big parts of their armies back in 300 BC! Then the Rider graphic could be used for the Cataphract unit. We also have a Junk unit graphic we could use as UU, though Crossbow was really their "thing")
Cataphract (intermediate step between Horseman and Knight, the numbers of which are the very different 4A 1D and 8A 6D in your scheme of things. In fact, Horseman is weaker than Chariot - that's not right. Also comes with Stirrup)
If you want a Musketman Rifleman intermediate, then Fusilier is a better name. The way I understand it, Grenadiers were essentially elite Fusiliers, not really different in weaponry or anything else, just the elite instead of veteran or regular, in Civ3 terms.
If you do have Fusilier, then all the disparate types should upgrade into that, not Rifleman, cos its with Fusilier that the variety of Musketman, Pikeman, Crossbow, Longbow, etc ended. Pikemen/Halberdiers were still being used up until that point (1700s) as a more defensive thing, while Musketmen were more offensive. Maybe that's what you were thinking with Rifleman and Grenadier, but there really wasn't the offensive / defensive infantry split at that time like there was pre-Fusilier.
Probably equal offensive and defensive numbers, or slight defensive advantage. Big jump from them to Rifleman. The big change here from Musketman is Fusiliers have ring bayonets, which allow them to be offensive and defensive, whereas Musketmen needed to be mixed with Pikemen to have them defendable.
"The introduction of the rifle musket and its conoidal bullet in the decade between 1850 and 1860 was the have the greatest immediate and measurable revolutionary impact on war of any new weapon or technological development of war before or since. When and if tactical nuclear weapons appear on the battlefield, presumably they will have an even greater effect. But certainly not even the high explosive shells, airplanes or tanks of the 20th century were to have effects of contemporary scale and significance comparable to the rifled musket in the early days."
I would boost that and Fusiliers to 2 move, and then adjust other numbers around that time accordingly (Artillery now 2, Howitzer 3, Cavalry, Tank 3). That would be more historically accurate too (modern inventions like canned food, changes in signalling and depot systems allowing troops more mobility even if they don't have railroads and roads to use. Napoleon was really the first to take advantage of this increased mobility even for infantry).