WWI and Colonial Warfare.

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troopie said:
Problems with doing late colonial wars are: as PatG said, the communications difficulties of late 19th century warfare can't be modelled, also, the game does not allow effective volley fire, (the zed key is not it) and the devastating effect of things like Maxim guns on massed formations is not modelled. These difficulties seem to be in the game engine; it was NEVER designed to to do 19th century warfare. You can't do line and supported line formations. The effect of black powder covering your line of sight (as with say, the Martini-Henry rifle) isn't done. The game assumes everyone is using smokeless powder.

Maybe play about with the numbers?

As there will be almost no vehicles, and it's just infantry, increased HEK can represent volley fire, and Increased weapon size will produce smoke. Also It would make sense to re-scale the hexes, from 50M down a lot. Maybe even as low as 10, although that would be pushing it.