Historical Battles

[Suleimen the Magnificent]

1. The siege of Malta 1565, Turks Vs. the Hospitallers. I think the best way to do this would be to split it into two distinct battles (the final attack on the catle St. Angelo and the attack on the city itself).

I like this idea. I think the best attack on the city to show would be when Don Pedro de Mezquita led his 200 men (100 horse, 100 Harquebusiers) into the rear of the ottoman camp, shouting "victory and relief!" right when they (the ottomans) would have taken the city, until those who had seen de Mezquita's attack spread panic among the army.

[Silver Rusher]

I don't think it should be split up. What I think should happen is if we take the one battle that is most glorious, funnest or whatever. I think that the siege on the last city would be the best option.

[Yggdrasill]

Correction not st. Angelo but St. Elmo.

Constantinpole, Mohach and some others are all fine, but really people they are too big. We should concentrate on smaller battles, also ones that are less famous. I for one more enjoyed the battle of Raphia than for exmple Trebia, or Carrhae (terrible).

Try and dig through you country's respective history and find some interesting battles.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Here is what my country has to offer; Gettysburg, Wilderness, Pearl Harbor, Fort Ticonderoga, Alamo. Don't think I have a good country for this. But I will research some of the famous ones and we can include as many as we feel like, no reason to exclude the famous ones, but we should look at the numerous obscure and sometimes more interesting battles.

[eadingas]

Polish battles, roughly in the range of the mod:
1333 - Battle of Płowce. Polish forces vs Teutonic knights, first battle not lost against the Teutonics (draw)
1399 - Battle of Vorskla. Lithuanian, Rus, Polish and Teutonic forces of prince Vitovt utterly crushed by Tatars. This defeat meant that Lithuanians could not unify Russia by themselves - and was the beginning of the power of Moskva.
1410 X - Battle of Koronovo. Less known and smaller than Tannenberg, but equally if not more important. This battle marks the end of 1410 Great Poland-Teutonic War, and means total defeat of the Knights.
1444 - Battle of Varna. See above.
1453 - Battle of Chojnice. Beginning of the XIII-years War. Polish 'pospolite ruszenie' and heavy cavalry totally defeated by better organized Teutonic Knights force. One of the important battles in development of warfare, since for the first time the teutonic infantry remained on the battlefield while the knights fled. And they won.
1462 - Battle of Swiecino. Near the end of the XIII-years War. Instead of 'pospolite ruszenie', Poland has employed mercenaries and professional soldiers, fighting in a hussite style, and they have dealt a painful blow to the Teutonic army.
1514 - Battle of Orsza. A bridge battle, in which 25000 polish troops crosses the river and defeats 80,000 Moscow troops
1531 - Battle of Obertyn. Poland wins over Moldova, and makes it a protectorate.
1577 - Battle of Lubieszow. Poland vs. Gdansk Rebels - 1300 polish cavalry vs 10-12,000 mercenary german infantry and town militia... Losses: Poland 188, Gdansk 9500

There was plenty of other battles in those days, most of them had the same result: polish cavalry beats the crap out of whoever stands in their way :)

[Silver Rusher]

Nice ideas there eadingas.

However, we can't just include loads and loads of battles for every faction, so I am going to cut out- Plowce (bit too early), Koronovo, Swienco, Obertyn and Lubieszow. Except maybe Vorskla, the others are fine.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Last night I researched Tannenburg. Researching this battle raised one question for me, SR will Foot Knights be in the game?

[eadingas]

Nice ideas there eadingas.

However, we can't just include loads and loads of battles for every faction, so I am going to cut out- Plowce (bit too early), Koronovo, Swienco, Obertyn and Lubieszow. Except maybe Vorskla, the others are fine.

Umm... what does that leave? ;) Anyway, it's just a selection, you wanted to dig, so I dug :) Do whatever you wish with that. Too bad that after development of hussars all polish battles get a bit dull, following the same boring pattern :)