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  1. 12-07-2006, 13:01 #9
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    Default Re: What happened to my beloved Swiss

    Being impetuous as pikemen is one of the many oddities of the game. I will mod it out.

    Never heard of a strong pike force in case of Portugal (but I'm not very well informed about that part of Europe). Surely I will make Swiss pikemen the best in the game because in my opinion nobody could match them.

    To the Swiss: they were not subject to Germans, they were Germans themselves as the people who first swore an oath to fight for their old liberties (which were granted by the German emperor) spoke in a German tongue. The three original cantons were part of the Habsburg estates and the struggle of "Wilhelm Tell" (who never existed) was against the Habsburg dukes.
    In theory the Confederation (it was not a Federation, the Swiss united to have not to unite too much) was part of the empire till 1648.
    Last edited by geala; 12-07-2006 at 13:28.
    The queen commands and we'll obey
    Over the Hills and far away.
    (perhaps from an English Traditional, about 1700 AD)

    Drum, Kinder, seid lustig und allesamt bereit:
    Auf, Ansbach-Dragoner! Auf, Ansbach-Bayreuth!
    (later chorus -containing a wrong regimental name for the Bayreuth-Dragoner (DR Nr. 5) - of the "Hohenfriedberger Marsch", reminiscense of a battle in 1745 AD, to the music perhaps of an earlier cuirassier march)
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