DBAWI Design Notes: Firing

I examined how I was doing Close Combat, at least for basic factors and the results table. This entry is for firing factors and the results table.

As I indicated before, I want firing to be more disruptive and close combat to be more decisive. One comment made on another forum is that in order to make combat more decisive, you need to use lower combat factors, making it easier to double. Another method is to change the results table.

In this entry I am simply going to list the firing factors I gamed with. If I experiment with other values I will post them and the results here.

Unit Type	Order	Factor	Range
Line Infantry	CO	+4	150 paces
Line Infantry	LO	+3	200 paces
Light Infantry	CO	+4	150 paces
Light Infantry	LO	+3	200 paces
Light Infantry	OO	+2	250 paces
German Rifles	OO	+3	300 paces
American Rifles	OO	+3	400 paces
Indians	OO	+1	200 paces
Cavalry	LO	+3	N/A
Cavalry	OO	+2	N/A
Artillery	Light	+2	600 paces
Artillery	Medium	+3	800 paces
Artillery	Heavy	+4	1000 paces

As you can see, CO infantry has a slightly better firing than the LO, who is slightly better than OO. Rifles have the range and good factors, although the tactical factors we used may make these numbers too high (more on that later).

What I like about the system is that LO infantry can start shooting 1/2" before the CO infantry can. It might seem minor, but it forces the CO infantry to close in more, which seems right.

As we have not used any artillery yet, I am unsure of how well they will fare, especially as opposed to rifles.

Here are the results tables:

Unit Type	Result if Beaten	Result if Doubled
OO Cavalry	Recoil.	Destroyed by LO or CO Infantry, and Artillery, otherwise flee 600 paces.
All Other Cavalry	Recoil.	Destroyed.
Artillery	Crew recoil.	Crew destroyed.
BUA Garrison	No effect.	Destroyed.
Rifles, Indians, and OO Light Infantry	Recoil.	Destroyed by Rifles, Indians, and OO Light Infantry, otherwise flee 300 paces.
All Other Infantry	Recoil.	Destroyed.

Slightly different than Close Combat, but pretty much the same.

UPDATE: All references to "Patriot Rifle" are now "American Rifle" to reflect that Loyalist militia can also be armed with the same rifle. This will open up two (and maybe three) new troop types for the British side.