Factions

[WodzuUK]

I'd be great to see some more factions, but no point of adding US and Japan (Factions irrelevant to the conflict in Europe). I'm pretty sure they more or less have the DLC finished and are now beta testing and fixing the major bugs and glitches, they won't bother with creating completely new factions from scratch. At best they might add for example units of Grand duchy of Warsaw to French order of battle (Altough as far as i know they already added the Polish legion to France)


So the community will have to get together and create a mod adding such factions to the game, chances of new factions getting added at this stage are equal none... Unless Vincenzo and his team have a plan of adding them later on, in future patches.

[Steinchen]

Hm. It says , They add 220 units to NW. 220:5 is 44 so I think there will be 1 or more units for regiments of minor states.

[Oldplayer]

hey guys im just wondering about the Ottomans (yes i doubt they will be added, but thats not the question) did the ottomans fight in the way that would be at all possible to do linebattles that we play?

[Comrade Temuzu]

IIRC, more or less. I believe they did have line infantry, but they were still somewhat heavy on traditional troops, like lancers and archers and whatnot.

[LtSpearing]

Someone made a thread on this on the FSE forums.

It said if you want a new faction, there are specific requirements on how to do it, as the devs won't. There are way too many things for them to do for them to even have the time to spare to make one, here's the thread ->

http://www.flyingsquirrelent.eu/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=313

[Admiral]

It said if you want a new faction, there are specific requirements on how to do it, as the devs won't. There are way too many things for them to do for them to even have the time to spare to make one, here's the thread ->

I don't think any of us have so far commented on what precisely we will do and what we will not do

[Comrade Temuzu]

Might as well post this here too:

Also, I did a bit of research, and a Japanese faction would be seriously outgunned by the Western faction. Basically, the Japanese army remained the way it was during for example Shogun 2, until the modernizations in 1860's and forward. Therefore the Japs would have to quite literally fight muskets with swords, bows, spears and matchlocks.

On the upside, it shouldnt be hard to find a mod that has all the required armor and weapons and ask for their permission to use them in the mod.

So basically, if any of you other old guard remember the patch for Musket Madness where the Samurai faction got added, thats exactly what it would be like.

[Vincenzo]

lolwut?

[Comrade Temuzu]

wat?

[Oldplayer]

would be awsome if they made a mod in the shogun times for the new DLC

[Danik]

hey guys im just wondering about the Ottomans (yes i doubt they will be added, but thats not the question) did the ottomans fight in the way that would be at all possible to do linebattles that we play?

Balancing the Ottoman army would be impossible without being historical inaccurate. For example, the Turkish Sipahi cavalry are practically cuirassiers and lancers combined, while their "line infantry" would have yatagans instead of bayonettes. Also, their troops had most probably not any standard uniforms and would require variation of clothes.

[Oldplayer]

maybe  there could be a "dual" faction.

this faction would only be on the dual servers and would feature evrey type of unit class (line inf, guard, heavy cav, lancer etc etc)

[Refleax]

maybe  there could be a "dual" faction.

this faction would only be on the dual servers and would feature evrey type of unit class (line inf, guard, heavy cav, lancer etc etc)

It's not a bad idea but somewhat useless since it's quite easy to change between factions.

[Tareth]

-:Konungariket Sverige and the Coalitions:-

In the beginning of November 1805, a combined British, Russian and Swedish force of about 12,000 men were sent from Swedish Pomerania to liberate French-held Hanover. The offensive against Hanover was repeatedly delayed because of Prussia's partial reluctance that the Swedes and the Russians moved troops through Prussian territory. However, in December 1805, after the battle of Austerlitz, the British and the Russian forces started to evacuate Hanover, leaving only a small Swedish force alone to face the French. In April 1806, the Swedes were also forced to retreat back to Swedish Pomerania after an alliance had been concluded between Prussia and France.

During the summer of 1806 Prussia changed side and formed the Fourth Coalition against France, which gave Sweden the right to occupy Lauenburg. But during the autumn, the French forces advanced rapidly and soon much of the western German regions were occupied, this forced the Swedish troops on a retreat towards Lübeck. The plan was that the troops from there could take the sea route to Stralsund in order to avoid the advancing French forces. The Swedes were still caught by the French on the 6 November while they loaded their ships at Lübeck, a battle where fought, but the numerically superior French forces won and about 1,000 Swedish soldiers had to surrender to the French.

|\([Gustav IV Adolf and Karl XIII])/|

The French army began their offensive towards Swedish Pomerania in early 1807 and besieged Stralsund on 15 January, this was the beginning on a seven-month long siege. Since the French forces also were engaged in warfare elsewhere this increasingly reduced the number of troops stationed around Stralsund. When the Swedes were reinforced on 1 April it was decided that they would attempt to break the siege, this was done with some success since the Swedes managed to take Usedom and Wolin. But the French chose to attack once again, and a force of 13,000 men attacked the Swedes from Stettin on 16 April. This forced the left section of the Swedish army to withdraw, and another division in Ueckermünde was then cut off and later captured. On 18 April, France and Sweden agreed on a ceasefire according to which French were to leave Pomerania. However, the Swedish government refused to join the Continental System and denounced the armistice under the influence of British diplomacy on 8 July.

On 6 August 1807, 50,000 French, Spanish and Dutch troops under Marshal Brune began an assault on Swedish Pomerania and besieged Stralsund again. On 20 August 1807, the defenders of the city capitulated and the remains of the Swedish army was surrounded at Rügen. However, Swedish General Johan Christopher Toll managed to concluded the convention of Schlatkow with Marshal Brune on favorable terms and his forces withdrew to Sweden with all of their munitions of war on 7 September.

Now read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_War_against_Napoleon --- Don't forget that this is a copy/paste, so don't expect to be able to read much more.

Point of the long text is: Sweden had it's part in the war.
And like any modern Swede-liking person would say along with the modern king: För Sverige - i tiden.

[James Stewart]

The text you write in reminds me of the WW2 period for some reason...

Typewriter-ish?