Fire by rank vs Platoon fire

[AussieGiant]

I ran a few custom battles the other day on normal with a platoon fire guard unit and a line infantry unit. The trend seems to be the fire-by-rank unit outgunning and causing more casualties on the first 2 volleys, but the constant losses they are taking makes them start redressing their lines sooner than the guard unit, and on volley 3 casualties are roughly even. By volley 4 the line infantry is losing too much firepower from casualties and by volley 5 they're usually around 40 casualties more than the guard unit and soon routs.

hmmm very interesting.

I'm sure the CA guy that is responsible for this working in the game is going; " it's not like we didn't put ANY thought into it!"

[Elmar Bijlsma]

I'd be careful drawing any conclusion from that. Line units just don't have the stats to go toe to toe with a guards unit in any case, irrespective of whether the guards are using rank or platoon fire.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

I had a unit of guards defending its section of the line loose against one unit of militia. That militia unit shot my precious guards to pieces. It might be that it was the VH bonus for the AI, but was not a fine moment for my guards.