SALVO CAPABILITY

[Rook]

The shooting table says foot with salvo capability 1 dice per 2 bases at short or long range. Other foot armed with musket 1 dice per base at short range and 1 dice per 2 bases at long. This means troops capable of salvo are actually worse at shooting than troops not so well trained ! I am aware salvo is an advantage in impact phase but if neither side choose to charge I am going to be out shot by less well trained troops. Also, probably being dim here but where does it say in Wars of Religion which units have salvo training as it isnt in the index and I cant find it in the Parliamentarian army lists.

[nickdives]

I think that the Swedes are the only Salvo capable chaps. Have a look at the Early Swedish Army, in Shooting and Impact they get Salvo. Yesterday we did Breitefeld, and the swedes took a few hits on the way in but their Salvo + extrta dice for Regt Gun took the Imperials apart! (except for the Elite Yellow Bde who rolled and re rolled 1s and 2s!)

[Rook]

Thanks for that I hadn't looked there. Seems a bit odd as Swedish salvo was in the drill manuals at the time of the English Civil War to my understanding. My Midlands Association Fooot are going to get a kicking against Early Swedish troops I fear. I will stick to scrapping with the local Royalists.

[nikgaukroger]

The Salvo capability encompasses a tactical doctrine of (mainly) shooting (and not always by the salvo) and then "falling on" and not just a shooting method, and to get the effect and tactical incentives on the table top that the authors wanted, this means it is represented by Salvo being both a shooting and Impact capability - you should not just look at one or the other but the overall package.

Yes a shooting salvo of some sort was also, at times, practised by other troops, however, we felt that the historical effect did not justify a different shooting capability. YMMV.

[Rook]

Thanks nikgaukroger. That clears it up nicely.