Yamaga Shimazu
11-19-2000, 19:23
This just to show why the game is actually so unbalanced :
"Apart from anything else, it was usually good for just one shot because there was rarely chance to reload on the battlefield, even with servants to help."
Oh my...why didnt i find it earlier ?! LOL
"The weapon?s true utility came when it was used by massed ranks of ashigaru. In modern terms, great numbers of arquebuses made up for the weakness of the individual weapon by turning it into a weapons system. When firing as a single mass or volley firing, larger units overcame the fact that the arquebus ? like all early firearms ? was hugely inaccurate and slow."
hugely inaccurate and slow ? Oh my...an ashi with honour 4 is not enough yet ? http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
" It was more by luck than judgement that an arquebusier could hit a man-sized target at 50 metres or so. Beyond 100 metres, anyone struck by a ball from an arquebus was unlucky rather than a victim of deliberate fire."
The range uh ?
" By mass firing against massed targets, these limitations were overcome and the weapon system that resulted changed Japanese warfare."
Of course...and doesnt 175 koku seem too cheap for equipping a large mass of ppl to render the arq effective and at that short range ?
Do u know folks how long it takes to a man or a horse to cover in charge those 50-100 meters ?
In an earlier part, i omitted to post, it says that explosions in the face were highly common http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
Thanx...now let's work on it.
And this document goes to all my opponents who cowardly choose to equip their armies with 3, 4 and even 5 high honoured musketeers.
Have fun while you can!
(giggle)
"Apart from anything else, it was usually good for just one shot because there was rarely chance to reload on the battlefield, even with servants to help."
Oh my...why didnt i find it earlier ?! LOL
"The weapon?s true utility came when it was used by massed ranks of ashigaru. In modern terms, great numbers of arquebuses made up for the weakness of the individual weapon by turning it into a weapons system. When firing as a single mass or volley firing, larger units overcame the fact that the arquebus ? like all early firearms ? was hugely inaccurate and slow."
hugely inaccurate and slow ? Oh my...an ashi with honour 4 is not enough yet ? http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif
" It was more by luck than judgement that an arquebusier could hit a man-sized target at 50 metres or so. Beyond 100 metres, anyone struck by a ball from an arquebus was unlucky rather than a victim of deliberate fire."
The range uh ?
" By mass firing against massed targets, these limitations were overcome and the weapon system that resulted changed Japanese warfare."
Of course...and doesnt 175 koku seem too cheap for equipping a large mass of ppl to render the arq effective and at that short range ?
Do u know folks how long it takes to a man or a horse to cover in charge those 50-100 meters ?
In an earlier part, i omitted to post, it says that explosions in the face were highly common http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif
Thanx...now let's work on it.
And this document goes to all my opponents who cowardly choose to equip their armies with 3, 4 and even 5 high honoured musketeers.
Have fun while you can!
(giggle)