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I was looking at the accounts of the Moghul campaign against the Maharatan Confederation in G10 and the thought occured that players and the forum spend a lot of time worrying about Navies (The shot at hull or digging debate), their Heavy Cavalry (The great Lance V Sword debate) the best drill for their Infantry drill.
But in the vast majority of campaigns in game involve a majority of Sieges and Street fighting. But favourite defensive designs and the poor old engineers, fortress gunners and dragoons who carry the campaign hardly get a mention. Anyone like to change this?
Found the G10 accounts from India interesting due to the mix of defences in use and the aggressive tactics of the defenders who in almost all cases attempted to disrupt the siege before it got started:
1) Nellore seems to have been a classic case of a large Moghul Army and probably a fairly small garrison, or at least one not large enough to take on the Moghul 5th Army in a stand up fight. But too their credit the Maharatan's stiil launched a night raid on the Moghul camp.
- This raid was not enough to break the siege but it does seem to have cost 5th Army another month. And as experienced campaigners can confirm delay's in sieges cost sickness levels and supplies.
2) Admadnagar was similiar story to Nellore but on a much larger scale with the Maharatan's launching a "Grand Sallie" with Infantry, Cavalry & Field Artillery against the Troops to the North who they mangled so badly that General Pari Khanna has abondoned the whole siege.
- The success of this "Grand Sallie" shows that forces which have spread out to blockade all four sides of a city can be very exposed to attacks by relief forces or the garrison.
3) Satra was an interesting example of a City with a Citadel in the centre of the city but no other defences. The Moghul 6th Army assumed the defenders would be in the Citadel and advanced through the streets...... were they were ambushed and routed.
- What happened to use of Scouts?
4) Poona followed Admadnagar in having another "Grand Sallie" or to be exact two. One Sallie from the main city and another from the detached Singhad Fort which defends High Land to the north of the city.
Such detached forts like St Elmo on Malta and the Montjuich south of Barcelona offer a interesting problem for the attacker.....do you deal with them first or effectively ignore as a distraction?
In this case the Moghuls screened the fort while getting ready to besiege Admadnagar but ended up with two forces having to fight back to back which is always a bit problomatic.
But in the vast majority of campaigns in game involve a majority of Sieges and Street fighting. But favourite defensive designs and the poor old engineers, fortress gunners and dragoons who carry the campaign hardly get a mention. Anyone like to change this?
Found the G10 accounts from India interesting due to the mix of defences in use and the aggressive tactics of the defenders who in almost all cases attempted to disrupt the siege before it got started:
1) Nellore seems to have been a classic case of a large Moghul Army and probably a fairly small garrison, or at least one not large enough to take on the Moghul 5th Army in a stand up fight. But too their credit the Maharatan's stiil launched a night raid on the Moghul camp.
- This raid was not enough to break the siege but it does seem to have cost 5th Army another month. And as experienced campaigners can confirm delay's in sieges cost sickness levels and supplies.
2) Admadnagar was similiar story to Nellore but on a much larger scale with the Maharatan's launching a "Grand Sallie" with Infantry, Cavalry & Field Artillery against the Troops to the North who they mangled so badly that General Pari Khanna has abondoned the whole siege.
- The success of this "Grand Sallie" shows that forces which have spread out to blockade all four sides of a city can be very exposed to attacks by relief forces or the garrison.
3) Satra was an interesting example of a City with a Citadel in the centre of the city but no other defences. The Moghul 6th Army assumed the defenders would be in the Citadel and advanced through the streets...... were they were ambushed and routed.
- What happened to use of Scouts?
4) Poona followed Admadnagar in having another "Grand Sallie" or to be exact two. One Sallie from the main city and another from the detached Singhad Fort which defends High Land to the north of the city.
Such detached forts like St Elmo on Malta and the Montjuich south of Barcelona offer a interesting problem for the attacker.....do you deal with them first or effectively ignore as a distraction?
In this case the Moghuls screened the fort while getting ready to besiege Admadnagar but ended up with two forces having to fight back to back which is always a bit problomatic.
Last edited by Stuart Bailey on Sun Jul 30, 2017 12:09 am; edited 1 time in total (Reason for editing : Error)
(Ditto raids for Gold & Ivory)