French and Indian war

[Arturo]

Reading a book about it and I was thinking that the French and Indian skirmishes and battles could be really interesting... Line formations too Light cavalry, indians, french, colonist, British

This is just an idea!

[2ltben]

I had an overall Horse & Musket idea for a mod, from the 16th century to the 19th.

[Arturo]

That would do.

[Fallschirmjäger]

I would choose the english and there indian allies like the mohawks,cool,there is a FPS shooter game i want to try out some time called the battlegrounds on this time,and i think another game too had a mod for it,will need to look for the sites later.

[Arturo]

Yea, I play battlegrounds its not bad but to much like CS but with muskets especially BG1 , BG2 for the source engine is getting much better.

[Lordwatson]

Its good but Source game engine isnt designed for it. I mean the player limit isnt enough to really recreate even a skirmish. This engine would be great for it though. But the only 36 units on the screen may think make much harder as CPU would have to accuratly track many men very close together.

[Arturo]

Thats the thing, the French and Indian war had a lot of small skirmishings involving hundreds or even less men. I think it would be perfect for 1944

[2ltben]

Unlike Ronan's explanation of cross-sections in 1944, in a Horse & Musket scenario you really would have hundreds of player models on the screen.

[Lordwatson]

Yeah thats what I am saying, not sure what the max about of men could be shown on screen without a real bad drop of framerate

[Saden]

Lordwatson, its not going to have a limit of 36 people on screen, Ronan was just saying that thats about how many you would see. If you are storming Omaha and there are 45 men that you can see infront of you, then there will be 45 men.

[Arturo]

There was a lot of usage of cover instead of huge line masses of men. Especially between Colonist and Canadians and Indians

[2ltben]

There was a lot of usage of cover instead of huge line masses of men. Especially between Colonist and Canadians and Indians
Monongahela did have that, but then you'd have a shitload of trees to render alongside the player models. And battles like Ticonderoga '58 were mostly linear field fighting. And Quebec. Holy shit, Quebec.

[Fallschirmjäger]

These are those sites with games on that peroid of time.:cool:

http://www.bgmod.com/

http://lordz.thelordz.co.uk/index.php?id=3,0,0,1,0,0
This one is a mod from the total war series of games,you will need some of them games to play this though.

[Arturo]

It would be still possible it does fit ronans discription. Would be awesome to play ticonderoga

[2ltben]

http://www.britishbattles.com/battle_of_Ticonderoga.htm

Just by looking at a single battalion from the side you would be seeing hundreds of units.

[Arturo]

Like Ronan said even if there are a lot of people around you will probably only see 30 when you look