Bullets from an early musket weren't much more deadly than an arrow. In fact an archer may have been more dangerous than a musketeer, as a well trained archer tended to be more accurate.
From close range you are just as dead whether an arrow or a musket ball hits you.
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I'll be ambushing and bayonet-charging at every possible opportunity. The glory and romance associated with it is just too much of a temptation to ignore.![]()
I assume judging by the videos that the musketfire is similar to arrow fire in MTW2. Basically that once a volley goes off 5 or 6 of the enemy's unit goes down from a musket volley. I also assume that some units will be wounded rather then die and have the usual red coloring.
Bayonet charges appear quite often in the videos, so I assume they are useful. However this time each unit seems to have a captain, leader, commander attached to it aside from general. This has always exsisted of course but usually they were little more then the one guy holding the flag.
I am curious to see what happens when someone guns down your drummers and flute players, mass panic?![]()
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You can probably pick which boat you want to put your admiral on. There's probably more units in his boat 'cuz it's a bigger boat than the other two.Back to this, generally Admirals put their flag on the biggest badass ship in their fleet so we can expect Admirals to be in the thick of the fighting unlike their land based counterparts.The idea now is that Generals will not be an unbeatable charging melee unit like they were in previous games. Especially with cavalry being much less effective in Empire.
In some cases Admirals did either prefer a faster, smaller ship or wound up transferring to one when their big ship was damaged in battle.
Also the number that shows is the number of guns not the crew strength. You can see this in some of the videos where you can see tooltips showing both number of guns & number of crew.
maybe those guys should be doing something more useful...
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