factions?special units? Strategies?

[woad&fangs]

Just wondering what everyone thinks the factions will be. I know the CA site said that England, Spain, America, France, Prussia, and America are all playable but I was wondering what other factions you think they will include. Also, what do you think each factions special units/strengths and weaknesses will be. It's a pretty safe assumption to say that England will have a great navy but what else sets the countries apart? Also, I will admit I don't know a great deal about the strategies of warfare at this time. I am assuming there was a lot more strategy involved than I realize or else CA wouldn't bother making the game. Does anyone know what kind of strategies were comman at this time? I know the Prussians would overload one flank and then try to encircle the other flank.(Modern Version of Alexander's tactic.) One last question, does anyone know which faction will make the most use of dragoons? I think they will be a lot of fun to play with based on how they're used.

[Furious Mental]

They said Charles XII of Sweden is in the game so one would rather expect Sweden to be in the game.

[Nikos_Rouvelas]

The ottomans

[Warluster]

You mentioned America twice.

Well all mentioned, Russia, The Ottomans, proably some Algerian Faction, Austria, Saxony,Bavaria(Y'know, German States) The Italian States (Pope, Venice,etc) Scotland and ireland maybe, Portugal, The Netherlands, India, Some Asian States, Some Indian Tribes, Mexico.

Thats all I can thnik of.

[Ignoramus]

Mexico won't be in; they only gained independence in the 1820's.

[Warluster]

Maybe New Spain instead?

[Mikeus Caesar]

You mentioned America twice.

Well all mentioned, Russia, The Ottomans, proably some Algerian Faction, Austria, Saxony,Bavaria(Y'know, German States) The Italian States (Pope, Venice,etc) Scotland and ireland maybe, Portugal, The Netherlands, India, Some Asian States, Some Indian Tribes, Mexico.

Thats all I can thnik of.

I'm not so sure about Scotland...

After all, Scotland and England ceased to exist as seperate independent countries in 1707 when they merged to form the United Kingdom.

[Freedom Onanist]

Well, I thought this had already been established?

The press release said of the 10 playable factions, there would be:

Britain
France
Spain
Prussia
America
Ottoman Empire
Russia (reference to Peter the Great)
Sweden (reference of Charles XII)

So 2 are missing. Chances are that one of those has got to be Austro Hungary. The other one could be The Netherlands (though in decline throughout the period), Portugal? Maybe Mughal India?

[Warluster]

Ah, those are playable ones but we were, or I was under the impression, we were talking about playable AND non playable factions.

[Cornwallis]

[\Quote]Well all mentioned, Russia, The Ottomans, proably some Algerian Faction, Austria, Saxony,Bavaria(Y'know, German States) The Italian States (Pope, Venice,etc) Scotland and ireland maybe, Portugal, The Netherlands, India, Some Asian States, Some Indian Tribes, Mexico.[\Quote]


Russia yes
Ottomans certainly
Austria
Prussia
England
America
France
Spain
maybe portugal
maybe holland
sweden
but as for the rest of your ideas they would be unhistorical and ridiculous based on the infrostructure of the time

[Fate]

I would suspect that the faction list would be roughly as follows:
Britain
France
Portugal
The Throne of Spain
New Spain
Netherlands
Denmark and Norway
Sweeden
Russia
Prussia
Austria/Hungary
The Ottoman Turks
Bavarian States
Some kind of imalgimation of eastern european factions, encompassing lithuania, poland etc
America
Mahratta Princes (India)
Persians
Algerians (most likely)

I would also highly suspect emergent factions, such as Ireland, American Indian Tribes, the US (opposed to it being british america), and many other ones to shake it up some what.

[Warluster]

but as for the rest of your ideas they would be unhistorical and ridiculous based on the infrostructure of the time

I guess not. German states were major then. Think War of Spanish Succesion, War of Austrian Succesion. The Italian States were still there, and definetly the Pope!

The rest are fine as well. What part do you think unhisotrical?

Ireland was not part of the British Empire then. I don't think.

[Incongruous]

Well, they said that Churchill was in, so it follows that so will Eugene. So it follows that the Holy Roman Empire will be too.

[Matt_Lane]

Ireland was not part of the British Empire then. I don't think.

England and Ireland had been linked since the Norman conquest with a series of conquests and rebellions until at the start of the 18th Century Ireland became part of Great Britain.

[Slaists]

You mentioned America twice.

Well all mentioned, Russia, The Ottomans, proably some Algerian Faction, Austria, Saxony,Bavaria(Y'know, German States) The Italian States (Pope, Venice,etc) Scotland and ireland maybe, Portugal, The Netherlands, India, Some Asian States, Some Indian Tribes, Mexico.

Thats all I can thnik of.

scotland and ireland were part of the british empire at the time, weren't they?

i'd guesstimate:

1. england
2. france
3. prussia
4. austria-hungary
5. russia
6. ottomans
7. spain
8. portugal
9. dutch
10. sweden

[Zenicetus]

Speaking of special units... I'm wondering how they'll handle Marine-type units for boarding actions in naval combat. Will it be a regular infantry unit, or a special Marine unit that can only be used on ships? I'm guessing a special unit to keep the numbers down. You can't have a regular stack with thousands of soldiers on a single ship, but maybe they'll have a single stack spread out among the fleet or something, if they use regular infantry. Will you recruit Marines separately, or will you get an automatic number related to the size of the ship, the way it's done in the abstract in RTW and M2TW? It will be interesting to see how they handle this.