![]() ![]() I wouldn't mistake that for any sign of military genius. Two armies did make it to the party and the Austrians made more mistakes than the Prussians. If you had to pick the most incompetent leader, the Austrian general Benedek would "win", but the failure of the three Prussian armies to converge on the Austrian position was, by the standards of the earlier Napoleonic Wars, pathetic. The Prussians had a technological advantage (their breach loading "needle rifles") while the Austrians had superior numbers and a better position. The battle had high casualties and a remarkable lack of competent commanders on both sides. I only have a masters degree, but my grasp on period warfare is pretty good. The Battle of Koniggratz (or Sadowa if you prefer), culminating battle of the Austro-Prussian War of 1866 was of major interest. Hats off.Ĭlick to expand.My specialty is the unification of Germany. The best part is that the game was developed in Poland, yet remarkably they compleately got the authentic Western-feel. They deserted the Confederate army in order to protect their home and family from advancing Union soldiers. It also uses the civil war as the first chapters and it explains how the protagnists became outlaws. The game Call of Juarez: Bound in Blood is according to me the greatest story-driven game of the last generation. The Western is set in the same era and is a monumentally greater cultural force. But that is because it was masterminded by Bismarck - a statesman the like of which Europe wouldn´t see again until Churchill.Īs for why no civil war games - the short answer is Western. The conflict is more similar to early ww2 than the "let´s all jolly murder each other now"-mentality of ww1 and the civil war. It is a steady advance into France and then the defeat of Napoleon - perfect. The more interesting campaign from a more linear gameplay perspective, is the Franco-Prussian war the decade after. Yet the Prussians won, took what they wanted, and then stopped the bloody fighting - that´s competent leadership for you. thusly, the war devolved into an utter hellhole.Ĭompare it to the wars of Prussia: the Austro-Prussian war even took place during the same decade. But they instead chose to keep fight the armies of the North. At the start, the South held the advantage and could have marched on Washington. The US civil war is a terrible war that was fought by idiots. ![]()
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