ohhh forced to focus one things
hope cannons are not too hard to get to and that navies are a valuable asset in this game
hope cannons are not too hard to get to and that navies are a valuable asset in this game
Originally posted by Havard
I doubt it... Cannons were not used effectively in naval battles until the very end of the period.
Cannons on ships are first know around 1350 though, and was in common use by the end of the game. The records of the Burgundian Ordnance Office mantions around 1450 that each galley in the ducal fleet carried five heavy (4 feet) guns firing 4 inch "calibre" shots.
I don't know really. I found that reference in the Cambridge Illustrated History of Warfare (p.120).Originally posted by BarbarossaHRE
No sh*t? Ive read all about the Burgundian "model army", but nothing about a Burgundian fleet! Did it ever engage an enemy fleet in battle?
Certainly weather should play an important part in sailing but I wouldn't count on anything that detailed for something which is not as big a part of the game as it is in EU II.
Originally posted by Greven
Basically when we talk of naval battles they where mainly very close to the coast and nearly always when the opponents had very good knowledge of the approaching cluster of ships, or when someone closed in on a good harbour where enemy ships where at.
/Greven