Shot Penetration

[LaBelle]

I think we need to up this to 60-80%. The 40% is a great start, and I'm keen to see how the game would change with a more realistic bullet penetration.

[EneCtin]

Well I read the report but did not see mention of this 40% or any penetration. Care to give us the link?
There were some saying they'll do volleys at a barn (I guess around obvious openings).

[LaBelle]

"I will push a hotfix in a bit. Fixing the issue where a team sometimes would not be able to spawn on the new game mode. This was because the server assigned the dead flag bearers flag from the previous area, as the new base spawn for the next area hehe.

I am also making bullets able to pierce wooden materials. In this hotfix they have a 40% chance of piercing wooden materials. Rock and brick walls still cant be penetrated. But the internal walls of houses can be penetrated, even if they have bricks on the outside. Wooden fences now also have a 40% chance to be pierced. These values will probably be tweaked as we go forward. Or be removed entirely, we'll see." - Fancy, https://www.warofrightsforum.com/sho...-Notes/page162

[EneCtin]

Disambiguation: "wooden fences" meaning the whole fence vertical area or just the wooden beams?

[Oleander]

In addition to this, maybe have the random artillery that is used on other maps target houses at maybe 100% penetration.

[smurfed]

I think 40% actually works fairly well. If you look at pictures of the wooden fences used in the civil war, the logs used are very thick.

[Poorlaggedman]

I haven't been in-game since I'm working and my hard drive is full of all kinds of BS so I had to free up as many gigs as I could last week by uninstalling for a few days

I think 40% actually works fairly well. If you look at pictures of the wooden fences used in the civil war, the logs used are very thick.

Simple property fences were not always left standing after a battle though. The ones you see in pictures are usually on major roads. Supposedly there were regulations about fences and roads, whether they were local or state ones. One set of pictures that sort of surprised me at Antietam showing a picket fence largely intact. You can download them in HD.

I believe the location the ones with the picket fence were taken at Antietam is still a mystery.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018671108/


Another shot of the Hagerstown Road (likely the nicest fence in town shows even some of it's rails down.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2018671466/


You can see fences on other battlefields often in crap shape. They don't always stand out - there's worm fence that's been beaten down or partly dismantled in the mid background.
https://www.loc.gov/item/2018670733/

Another shot of fences dismantled on another battlefield, only the posts are left standing because it'd be a pain to rip those out of the ground.
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They could also be dismantled to mark graves after the battle. The main photos you see of fences on battlefields are of the sturdy ones that survived it.

[LaBelle]

The standard caliber of round and minie ball could pinch clean through trees.

[Sox]

The standard caliber of round and minie ball could pinch clean through trees.

Well that's both true and false at the same time, it's true that the calibre of the round allowed for high penetration, but the soft lead composition more often caused a round to flatten out or shatter/splinter upon impact. I remember reading about one of the tree's from the famous 'clump' on cemetary ridge, it had so many rounds embedded in it that the lead content had pertrified it. I'd say 40% is about right, there were a lot of variables such as powder composition etc etc that contributed to calculating penetration.