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[Spartan 117]

Can I have a frontier army?

[Rilder]

Can I have a frontier army?

Yeah, sure. I'll try to fit it the best I can to your specifications but for now we mostly have line infantry, outdated artillery and militia calvary (Well Pandurs are skirmishers I guess!)

Right written up..

Spoiler: 1700-1702 (click to show/hide)

The last two years have been for the most part calm, army movements and reforms and infrastructure improvements have been the goal.

In Bosnia, Georg Brankovic shoots an Imam, then later gets in a fistfight with a Polish gentleman and gets killed.


Johannes has made a breakthrough!

You see instead of using twine or rope or whatever to attach a sword to the end of a gun, he has designed a dagger that you can just ram down the barrel of the gun, effectively turning it into a spear! Unfortunately this means that the weapon is for all intents and purposes a spear until the soldier can get someone to help him yank out the bayonet.

In 1701 we starting hearing reports of the notorious Pirate captain, William Kid had finally been bought to Justice! Not that it matters to us.


A year later we also heard from Crimea, it seems that Russians had stormed in and conquered them, I suspect that the Russians will have difficulty holding back rebellions though!


That brings us to news of the Army.

The Liederhosen's Finest, a unit of  Infantry has been raised, they will serve under the Prince as Line-men until we can develop, what Johannes calls "Dragoons" Then they will be cut to 80 men and given horses.

This brings us to the final bit of news.

(I fixed the name on Heyreddin just after I took that pic)
Admrial Heyreddin Barbarossa has finally managed to get support of the King to form an Fleet, although only Consisting a Brig and Sloop, it will help guard the trade lanes from the Barbary States and other pirates.

[Heron TSG]

Sweet! I hope I sink some Ottomans, if only for the irony. Maybe I'll get into a duel with THEIR Heyreddin, although I'm not sure if he's in this time period.

[Judas Maccabeus]

Oh, whee, a sloop.  Guess one can only expect so much from the Austrian navy, though. 

Sweet! I hope I sink some Ottomans, if only for the irony. Maybe I'll get into a duel with THEIR Heyreddin, although I'm not sure if he's in this time period.

Wasn't he early 16th century?

[Rilder]

Oh, whee, a sloop.  Guess one can only expect so much from the Austrian navy, though. 

Hey hey, it could be worse, I could of given you a light galley! (Until we get some more ports that little trading port is all we got)

[Spartan 117]

Dragoons. Bah.

[inteuniso]

It's clear I need to bone up on my 17th century Austrian political history.  I have shamed my education.

Considering we're in the 18th century, you do need to bone up.

Also, considering the fact that dragoons are the some of the only infantry units that can dismount, they're pretty damn cool.

[Spartan 117]

Dragoons only get wiped out in my games. Either I use them as Cavalry and they get killed by actual Cav units, or I use them as fast-moving skirmishers and they get cut down by Cav after a single volley, if any.

[Rilder]

Dragoons are sometimes nice in siege battles to run around the back of the fort and hit them from behind, their lack of bayonets does hurt I think though.

Right guys another update...

Spoiler: Battle of Klausenburg (click to show/hide)

Spring, 1704

Guido looked into the forest trying to get a better eye at the army spotted marching in his direction.
"Any Ideas who they might be?" He asked the scout that had spotted them.
"Can't see the flags at this range, but judging by direction I'd bet their Ottomans"
"Ottomans? But we've been at peace with them for a few years now?"
From behind them a horseman, one of them 60 in training to serve as the frontier army's new calvary unit ran up behind them then slowed to a trot as he approached.
"Sir I bring news from Austria"
"Oh?"
"The Ottoman Empire has declared war!"
"Damn, alright how many extra muskets do we have?"
"I'm not sure, about four hundred, maybe five hundred?"
"Okay start handing them out, volunteers first then gather whoever looks like they won't run at the first sign of battle, then get the militia ready, we march in three days."
"Yessir!"



The Ottoman force was a small and mostly militia and mob force under a rather average Ottoman general, they soon surrounded the city the best they could and set in for a siege, hoping to of cut off the city before the Austrians managed to get their men together, but had failed on several parts of the plan and the Austrians had managed to get organized. Guido sallied against the besiegers, forming his men into a line as the horses pulled his unit of artillery into position. Finally taking his position with his bodyguards beside the Artillery, and ordering his men forward.



And so the Battle of Klausenburg began.

Firstly the Artillery opened up, although not particularly dangerous, it did invoke fear on the Ottoman peasants.


Then the Citizenry marched forward, acting as a screening for the more valuable Milita.


The Ottoman peasantry, not having much more then pitchforks, quickly charged the Austrian lines, their only chance being in melee...



Fortunately, pitchforks are no match for firelocks and they routed as the militia lines behind the citzenry approached.



The Ottomans soon ordered their line infantry foreward, but charged them foreward after barely firing a shot, the militia soon attached bayonets and charged, meanwhile the Ottoman General, who had been marching with the army got a bit to close and got him and his guards shot to hell, and forcing him to rout.




Elsewhere in the battle, more melees had broke out and an ottoman line infantry had unsuccessfully tried to flank the Austrians' Right, eventually throwing themselves into melee with the the Milita, before routing.



Finally the Ottomans called their reserves, a group of Ulhans and Swordsmen, who a group of Milita single-handedly routed.


And so victory was won!

Battle Replay Place in your Users/(USERNAME)/AppData/Roaming/The Creative Assembly/Empire/Replays

At least for windows 7, I don't know where it keeps them on XP.

[Heron TSG]

Das cool!

I can't wait to see what ship-to-ship battles are like.

[Rilder]

Das cool!

I can't wait to see what ship-to-ship battles are like.

Might be sooner then later!

Spoiler: Winter 1704 Situation Report and Orders for 1705 (click to show/hide)

Greetings, Gentlemen it is good of you all to make it. As you already know, we are at war at the Ottoman Empire, our mortal enemies, again.  Despite our victory at Kausenburg with acceptable losses, we must be vigilant and follow this up with a decisive offensive. I'm sorry Prince Eugen cannot join us, he is needed on the frontline. Currently this is our Situation:



In Transylvania, Guido is currently gathering reinforcements for his army and finishing off training of his new calvary unit. We are sending him a shipment of muskets to help him in these efforts. After this is completed he has freedom to pursue what he decides, but for now we are encouraging him to bunker down, Moldavia is a tempting target but it would deprive our new Russian friends of a landfront with the Ottomans, and since I do not suspect they have an operational fleet to transfer troops it would basically mean us facing the full brunt of the Ottoman army.

Prince Eugen has marched to Bosnia and into Sarajevo, the capital.  The Ottomans didn't garrison it and it surrendered without a shot fired. He is currently ordered to march in spring to Belgrade, where it is suspected that the town will surrender also.  However after Serbia is secure he is ordered to wait and quell the rebellions that will undoubtedly start in the following months.

Admiral Barbarossa, you are ordered to the Aegean Sea, your orders are to sail against and capture as much Ottoman shipping as you can get your hands on, and if possible destroy any Ottoman fleets operating in the Area. We are not expecting more then Galleys if they put up any resistant, but our intel. is foggy so don't take any unnecessary risks, but if you do engage try to board and capture as many ships as possible, galleys may not be suitable as line ships but we can sell them off for a bit of extra cash (You get a bit of money when you capture ships and don't keep them I think)

Ludwig, despite his protests to get in on the action with the Ottomans, will be kept on the northern front. We are after all trying to conduct a civilized war, people, and his hate of the Ottomans would undoubtedly lead to much barbarism.

So far we haven't seen much of the Ottoman's since Klausenburg, our scouts had been keeping an eye on two small forces near the Transylvania border, but we have lost track of them, it is assumed that they are gathering their forces near Istanbul for an offensive, hopefully if they do launch one, Prince Eugen will be in position to repel it.

That is all gentlemen. Good luck.

[Seamas]

That's sound strategy there, milord. 

May I humbly suggest, however, that we encourage prudence in Barbarossa's fleet.  He may find the Aegean swimming with Ottoman galleys, and be overtaken if he sails too deep into hostile waters.

Perhaps patrolling the edge of Greece, before blockading an important economic lifeline there - or scouting the Aegean to sound out enemy numbers, would be more beneficial.

[kalida99]

Sounds like the Campaign is going well, but i do have a suggestion!

Rather than having the prince hang back to quell rebellion, use Guido for that task. If you were to have the prince hang back you would lose precious momentum against the Ottomans, allowing them to build a defense. Making the war longer, more difficult, And stressing the treasury.

[Rilder]

Sounds like the Campaign is going well, but i do have a suggestion!

Rather than having the prince hang back to quell rebellion, use Guido for that task. If you were to have the prince hang back you would lose precious momentum against the Ottomans, allowing them to build a defense. Making the war longer, more difficult, And stressing the treasury.

Yeah indeed it would be a sound strategy, however if we over extend ourselves in the march we could easily see much of our territorial gains lost to rebellions. Though Sofia is a tempting target! 

Besides I want to see a full fledged battle between the ottomans and the Austrians. 

[kalida99]

Very well, but don't dawdle too long in the Desert! The Ottomans are not your only worry, The Polish are as well being right on your border  .

Oh yeah, imma send you something to make the war more interesting!