These can be found in the Data\UnitsMD folder. Each unit has its own MD file and within you find the characteristics off the units.

For example, locate AusMus.MD ( Austrian Musketeer Monster Description)

Open it with Notepad or wordpad. Inside you will find strings like below:

May seem complicated at first glance, believe me, this is rather easy.

For example if you want to change range, find the line(s)

This is the attack range ( or radius) from 0 untill 900 for weaponkind 1. The game doesnt count in yards as you state, so you will have to experiment with the numbers to satisfy your needs. Weaponkind 1, as you can read lower in the strings is:

Vistrel is the rifle

Closely related , as you put in point 4) reloading times is:

In other words, for weaponkind 1 ( see above) it takes 800 gameframes to reload ( pause between attacks).

Again, experiment with the numbers

For more information about the strings in the MD files, please see to the Cossacks I & Cossacks II modding section on the main page off this site.

Highly suggested to take a copy off your game, put it on your desktop and play around with the files there, because you will mess up. We all do. And you cant play online with a non distributed mod as it will cause synchronisation errors while playing with people with non modded versions.

Dont hesitate to ask questions.

Yes C2BfE is a fantastic game, however many things there is ubalanced or not quite well prepared. Nevertheles it is only a game.

Regarding these mentioned in your post things (range, demage, morale, reloading times) you should include that there are few more aspects.

1) Musket fire range can not be increased if artillery fire range will not increase. Historically cannons had much bigger range than muskets had e.g effective fire range for musket was 200 m and for 6 pound cannon 900 to 1000 m.
Worse that there is accuracy problem too e.g. historically battalion in line formation cover front wide 280 m, it could mean that soldier from battalions left wing normally had a problem with accuracy and hit on target placed on battalions right wing was hard. Therefore these fire zones in the game should not be too big.

2) Demage ratio should be decreased, because muskets were not so accurate on battlefields. However lenght of the firefights varied at that period and it is not so easy to change that aspect in the game. If you like longer firefights in the game then try fire by 1,2,3 ranks and not by all battalion formation. This way you also can fire more than one big hit and your firefights can last more too.

3) Morale will be enough if demage ratio will be decrease, I suppouse. There are many historical data when formations broke with one volley too.

4) Reloding times is more comlicate question and I do not undestand what you really want to change there. You want to do faster firefighs?

If you would like you also can take in consideration this
http://napoleonistyka.atspace.com/infantry_tactics_2.htm
and this
http://cossacksworld.ucoz.co.uk/forum/29-83-1

There was quite long and interesting discusion about needed improvements in C2.

I also had there many suggestions and ideas to this game.

Regards
Nowy