Victoria: Total War Preview 2

[full_too_pale]

Man, I was hoping someone would get my Oscar Wilde reference.

[¤Axel¤]

This really does look great guys

[canpasha]

A great mod.congratulations.

[Acousticx]

I too am rather concerned about the tactics of this time period. Could you shed some light on this?

[Tango12345]

They still fought in lines if thats what you mean. They had just started to use the first basic machine guns, but tactics themselves had yet to catch up.

[Acousticx]

Even later on when they had bolt actions (ie Franco-Prussian war)?

['Gunny]

Not Bolt Actions, breach loaders

[Acousticx]

I take it that the difference is the fact that bolt actions have magazines?

Still surprising that armies of this time fought in lines with breech loading rifles.

['Gunny]

What part of "War is Hell" Don't you get?

[Tango12345]

Not Bolt Actions, breach loaders

Both by 1900-for one the lee enfield came in in 1898

['Gunny]

I was talking about the Franco-Prussian War

[stas69]

Franco-Prussian war. The rifle was allredy bolt action.
Prussian-Dreyse rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_gun
French-Chassepot rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassepot

[Okmin]

Franco-Prussian war. The rifle was allredy bolt action.
Prussian-Dreyse rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Needle_gun
French-Chassepot rifle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chassepot

Welcome to the forums, thanks, and +rep

['Gunny]

The needle gun was NOT a bolt action, I repeat NOT a Bolt action, neither was the Chassepot. They were single shot breech loaders.

[Okmin]

They were both single-shot, bolt action breech loaders. I think the difference here is that Gunny's talking about magazine/cartridge loaded bolt action...

[stas69]

Yes, single-shot, bolt action breech loaders. Same Berdan #2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berdan_rifle, Mouser M 1871 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_Model_1871 .
Breech loaders Krnka m1857/67 http://www.militaryrifles.com/Russia/Krnka.htm, Martini-Henry http://www.militaryrifles.com/Britain/Martini.htm ,Turkish Peabody-Martini http://www.militaryrifles.com/Turkey/TPeabMar.htm
Snider-Enfield http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snider-Enfield .

[Tango12345]

,Turkish Peabody-Martini http://www.militaryrifles.com/Turkey/TPeabMar.htm

Ah THATS what they had, thanks for that

(new rifles will be techs you see )

[stas69]

You are welcome.

[ComnenusTheOne]

Ah THATS what they had, thanks for that

(new rifles will be techs you see )

How you gonna make the transition?

[Tango12345]

Techs.