Quote Originally Posted by Marcus Caelius View Post
Yes I've wandered around a few period fortification, - i like them very much. I lived for a while in Freiburg, not far from Neuf Breisach which has some very well preserved Vauban fortifications.

But this time to add to an impressive tale of woe, i must relate the assault i recently performed.

RTI campaign, stage 3.

I attacked a strongly defended Philadephia with my main stack.

I made a breach in the wall easily enough (see earlier comments) and marched three regiments of Colonial line infantry to form a U at the mouth of the breach, safely in the dead zone (see earlier comments). There are other details to the events, but to keep it simple, what basically happened is one by one, the defending units left their positions and advanced out of the breach into the concentrated fire of my three line infantry.

One by one they exited the fort and got mown down.

By the time i got round to actually entering the fort, there were only 3 defending units left, an artillery unit, one horse and a line infantry that spent it's last few minutes of life going into and out of square formation (i had no cavalry with me in the fort).

The British did have one, albeit not the last, laugh. General Washington was killed. Although not by British gunfire. I ordered him to move somewhere without paying too much attention and he got mown down by his own artillery at very close range.


This is easily explainable, CA must have put a "all soldiers drunk due to severely retarded commander" variable into battle calculations. This factor comes up all the time for me, yes very realistic