Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

The 16th century arquebus is in fact closer in calibre and weight to the 18th century/Napoleonic musket than the heavier 16th century musket.

Musket – Appearing from about the 1540s onwards, the 16th century musket was heavier and more cumbersome than the arquebus, but with a longer range and greater velocity. Requiring a forked rest to fire, this is a significantly heavier weapon than the later musket, which could afford to become lighter once armour was abandoned.

Rifle – Rifling is said to have originated in Augsburg around 1498. Some 16th century arquebuses and muskets were certainly rifled, but there’s no clear evidence of entire units being armed with rifled firearms before c.1600.


Lt.Col. Rich White
4th Cavalry Brigade
Cavalry Corps
Anglo-Allied Army

Rich,

just curious... early in XVIII century, and obviously earlier, there were quite a few weapons called bombards, saddle mortars or something like that. All of them were a tiny mortars with a gun stock and were fired either from hands or from a rest. Were there such weapons included in the engine description.

Also I'm interested if numerous battles in eastern Europe were included. To name a few Northern War battles, The Time of Trouble, Russo-Polish wars, the Battle of Vienna etc., etc.

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The 1529 siege of Wien is included, also Mohacs and the 1601 battle of Kokenhausen between Swedes and Poles/Lithuanians.

I've been collecting info on other Eastern European, including Russian battles of the period to create additional scenarios later on, probably for an expansion pack. This will probably include Orsha 1514, Lubieszow 1577 and perhaps Dobrynichi 1605. I won't include anything after c.1610 or much before 1480, because this will fall outside the period covered and should be included in other later M&S titles.

If you have some OOBs or maps, etc for any Eastern battles send me the material and I'll incorporate it.

Hand-held mortars, etc, would count as infantry weapons and would be capable of indirect fire. I suspect their main use would be in sieges. I don't recall including them in the weapons dat file, but they could be added if they were present in a particular battle or siege.

Bombards are heavy siege cannon - they're really more 15th century than 16th century, although oriental armies would continue to use them later.


Lt.Col. Rich White
4th Cavalry Brigade
Cavalry Corps
Anglo-Allied Army