Switzerland

[Jazzy]

PHA! Of course you mean besides slaughtering Habsburgs, defeating the number 1 military juggernaut in Europe, the Burgundians, getting independent from the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation, defeating the Swabians, invading Italy, mass slaughtering French, having a reputation of being unbeatable for 200 years, convincing the pope not to let himself being protected by anyone else than Swiss mercenaries, making kings of that age consider it impossible to win a battle without Swiss mercenaries, and when finally being closely defeated by a force superior in numbers and canons, still performing the first ordered retreat since antiquity...

The delicate position of the Old Swiss Confederation in the 18th century consisted in being financially dependant from the House of Bourbon on one side and on the other side not to be able to come to help their treaty partners in the Franche Compté, Alsac and Strassbourg when they were occupied by the French. The period of the Ancien Regime (18th century) was rich of cultural prosperity (enlightment) but politically they did not develop the necessary institution to real-time with the rising powers in their neighborhood and when they did it was too late because the institutions that had worked well through the Renaissance and during the Barock suddenly failed in 1798.

I would not reproach CA with not having the Swiss in a wargame focusing on the period of the Ancien Régime because it was beside the war of 1712 a peaceful and good period for them. - It's a chance for modders, to improve the range of topics of the game. I look forward and will support their efforts within the limits I have set to myself.