War Wagons!

[big_steveo]

I heard somewhere there was going to be war wagons. Is that true?!?!

If so, will they act like chariots except with defense? Having a unit of 20 war wagons is inaccurate isn't it?

[Prince of the Poodles]

Man, I thought you were posting screenshots....

Ya, I think they are in.

[anders]

from what Ive read about the hussite use of war wagons, and later east and central european use was inspired by or copied from them, they will not be anything like RTW chariots, but be more like mobile field fortifcations where several wagons are chain-linked together to form a "wagenlaager" which protect sfrom missile and meelee attacks, and from where the defenders can fire their missile weapons from a relatively safe position, and sally out to do meelle once the attackers are ufficoiently softened up.

so, nothing like the charging heavy chariots of RTW.

[Orda Khan]

They should have been introduced in BI. It will be interesting to see how efficient they are

......Orda

[Furious Mental]

I'm wondering if they might have the arquebus-a-croc

[Kourutsu]

They should have been introduced in BI. It will be interesting to see how efficient they are

......Orda

Well they had the chariot with the ballista turret on the back.

[Faenaris]

Well they had the chariot with the ballista turret on the back.

A war wagon isn't the same thing as the ballista chariot. See this link:

http://www.hotelpraguecity.com/fotky/husiti.html

Basicly, a war wagon is just a wagon filled with arquebusiers and crossbowmen. It isn't used for moving around and firing. Infantry and cavalry alike would hide behind the carts, allowing the enemy hurl themselves on the defenses. Once the attack had failed, the infantry behind the carts would counter-charge.

So, you see, I don't think the War Wagon will be used like the Chariot Balista simply because of the fact that the War Wagon didn't move. I don't know how CA has implemented it, but we shall see in 2 weeks. :)