Brigades not firing Volley correctly

[Slaithium]

I have noticed for some reason that brigades sometimes will not fire a full volley. Like, they will shot one at a time or partially at times. Is this by design or is this a bug? The commander of the unit is not dead and there is nothing obstructing the vision of the unit.

So some feed back on this would be great, thanks.

[SouthernReb18]

sounds like a bug but I have that happen almost every battle to one or two units as well... usually if I tell them to fall back real quick and then bring them back on line all is fine... usually seems to be right after they are waivering

[A. P. Hill]

What is the unit's ammo supply?  If it is reduced the unit fires at 1/3rd rate this action you are seeing may be a result of that.

[Don't Escrow Taxes]

When a unit's morale is low they tend to slow their rate of fire.  Which i think is understandable.  What I do find a little frustrating is the inability to issue a fall back command in some cases where they are low on morale... like when the unit turns a lighter shade of their color, it won't take commands.  

[jimcarrel]

I've run into circumstances, a memorable one was during 2nd Bull Run as Union, where a brigade is doing nothing (with no icons or flanked etc. warnings) and I could not even select them, not even to just get statistic readouts on them.

[CaptainKanundrum]

56 minutes ago, jimcarrel said:

I've run into circumstances, a memorable one was during 2nd Bull Run as Union, where a brigade is doing nothing (with no icons or flanked etc. warnings) and I could not even select them, not even to just get statistic readouts on them.

I've seen this behaviour if a unit was on the verge of routing, but not otherwise. I suppose it's a sort of you lose control over your men.

10 hours ago, Slaithium said:

I have noticed for some reason that brigades sometimes will not fire a full volley. Like, they will shot one at a time or partially at times. Is this by design or is this a bug? The commander of the unit is not dead and there is nothing obstructing the vision of the unit.

So some feed back on this would be great, thanks.

I have seen this behaviour before as well with units that had ammo and leaders and everything. I thought it was a symptom of the unit was having difficulty targetting or lining up properly. After the lack of volley, the unit's reload percentage was still close to 100% and could fire very shortly afterwards, so although it was super frustrating, I didn't think it was a bug.

[Slaithium]

5 hours ago, CaptainKanundrum said:

I've seen this behaviour if a unit was on the verge of routing, but not otherwise. I suppose it's a sort of you lose control over your men.

I have seen this behaviour before as well with units that had ammo and leaders and everything. I thought it was a symptom of the unit was having difficulty targetting or lining up properly. After the lack of volley, the unit's reload percentage was still close to 100% and could fire very shortly afterwards, so although it was super frustrating, I didn't think it was a bug.

The problem I have with some of these responses do either explain the unit behavior that it is concretely that way or not. But from experience when a 2 star and 3 star unit shoot a volley and then start shooting in a non-volley way, with plenty of ammo, 70% or higher morale, commander still alive, and with no obstruction would be have this way does not make sense in the slightest. There needs to be a clear post about this functionality if it is post to be present in the game, if not then it needs to be fixed. A or B in my opinion.