Musket Volleys

[pevergreen]

Don't make me speak in slang again. Struth.

I've read that you have to research volley fire, as well as the fire at will toggle being off (presumably)

[Fisherking]

Don't make me speak in slang again. Struth.

I've read that you have to research volley fire, as well as the fire at will toggle being off (presumably)

uh'hum is it so? I know Platoon Fire is...

Platoon Fire is a bit different than volleys. In Platoon Fire you should theoretically be able to keep up an all most constant firing into the enemy until your ammunition is gone. Volley fire would be one or two ranks firing all at the same time and then the unit reloads.

One (volleys) is good for destroying morale and killing lots of the enemy at once, if they are close. The other (Platoon Fire) drives the morale down and increases the stress on the unit targeted. Its also go to cover movements of a second unit.

Driving up stress may be very important in the current morale system…

[pevergreen]

Oh, I thought they were much the same, line fires, then reloads, constant firing if you have enough lines.

[KozaK13]

Did armies not let off a few volleys and then it broke down to firing at will when the distances between forces got shorter?

Plus at the time of the mod the colonists probably did sound much more like the english than americans.

[Fisherking]

Did armies not let off a few volleys and then it broke down to firing at will when the distances between forces got shorter?

Plus at the time of the mod the colonists probably did sound much more like the english than americans.

Firing would get more ragged as troops took to fire at will…but it isn’t necessarily so.

And no, it would have been the other way round, The English sounded more like Americans than they do today…

[KozaK13]

And no, it would have been the other way round, The English sounded more like Americans than they do today…

How so?

[Fisherking]

How so?

To make it a story; some time ( I think in the 1820s but it may have been later) the English upper class began to speak in what they thought was a more elegant fashion. They modified the vowel sounds and lengthened them and began to clip some words. This in turn trickled down into the lower levels of society. (the first time in history that it went form the top down) The shift in pronunciation resulted in what we today think of as the British Accent.

Americans and to a lesser extent Canadians did not go through this shift, retaining the older form of the language. Spelling was also not firmly fixed resulting in different ways of spelling the same words.
So as much as the British love to make fun of their cousins across the sea, they speak a much more recent variety of the language.

If you want further information one book is , I believe, “The Story of English”. There are many others, and like this one written primarily by British Authors.

I hope I have answered the question.