Petronel Cavalry

[w_michael]

Shouldn't the late period German (Imperial) army list include the option of one unit of petronel cavalry?

[Dux Limitis]

Shouldn't the late period German (Imperial) army list include the option of one unit of petronel cavalry?

They already had,if you mean the Late Medieval,already in the tabletop army list(Mounted handgunners).You can use them from the 1450 AD.Another thing I wanna ask is(Hope the Mr.Richard will answer me when he see it)will the Late Medieval knights/MAAs' armour ratings change to fully armoured in FoG2:Medieval instead of heavily armoured in FoG tabletop?As in Late Medieval they're usually armed with mail under plates,brigandine with plates etc.

[rbodleyscott]

Another thing I wanna ask is will the Late Medieval knights/MAAs' armour ratings change to fully armoured in FoG2:Medieval instead of heavily armoured in FoG tabletop?

Later period MAA will be Fully Armoured - armour rating 300. (In fact they were Fully Armoured in tabletop too, it is just that the nomenclature has changed between tabletop and computer to allow extra shades of armour rating - i.e. Heavily Armoured is armour rating 250 in FOG2 Medieval, but was equivalent to Fully Armoured in tabletop).

[Dux Limitis]

Another thing I wanna ask is will the Late Medieval knights/MAAs' armour ratings change to fully armoured in FoG2:Medieval instead of heavily armoured in FoG tabletop?

Later period MAA will be Fully Armoured - armour rating 300. (In fact they were Fully Armoured in tabletop too, it is just that the nomenclature has changed between tabletop and computer to allow extra shades of armour rating - i.e. Heavily Armoured is armour rating 250 in FOG2 Medieval, but was equivalent to Fully Armoured in tabletop).

Thanks for the answer mister.

[w_michael]

Yeah, I guess that I have to wait until the Renaissance period.

[Athos1660]

Yeah, I guess that I have to wait until the Renaissance period.

I guess you don't.
FoG:Medieval will eventually cover the medieval period until 1500.
There are German mounted handgunners in the TT game from 1450.

1450-1500 seems to be an interesting period !

[w_michael]

Yeah, I guess that I have to wait until the Renaissance period.

I guess you don't.
FoG:Medieval will eventually cover the medieval period until 1500.
There are German mounted handgunners in the TT game from 1450.

1450-1500 seems to be an interesting period !

OK, looking forward to Petronel cavalry in the game; the ancestor of the pistol and the carbine.

[Athos1660]

The nice smell of the gunpowder is coming (in FoG:M) : light guns, bombards, lightfoot handgunners, mounted handgunners...

[w_michael]

The nice smell of the gunpowder is coming (in FoG:M) : light guns, bombards, lightfoot handgunners, mounted handgunners...

Let's hope that FOG2Medieval has graphic smoke effects like P&S. Smokeless gunpowder wasn't available until the 18th century.

[Pixel]

Yes we definitely do hope to see some smoke fx billowing forth from the boomsticks!

[SimonLancaster]

The nice smell of the gunpowder is coming (in FoG:M) : light guns, bombards, lightfoot handgunners, mounted handgunners...

Let's hope that FOG2Medieval has graphic smoke effects like P&S. Smokeless gunpowder wasn't available until the 18th century.

How widespread was this smokeless gunpowder? I am quite familiar with the Napoleonic period which is early 19th century and you always see swaths of smoke in pictures and movies that depict the battles..

[Karvon]

The nice smell of the gunpowder is coming (in FoG:M) : light guns, bombards, lightfoot handgunners, mounted handgunners...

Let's hope that FOG2Medieval has graphic smoke effects like P&S. Smokeless gunpowder wasn't available until the 18th century.

How widespread was this smokeless gunpowder? I am quite familiar with the Napoleonic period which is early 19th century and you always see swaths of smoke in pictures and movies that depict the battles..

The American Civil War battlefields, likewise, were quickly blanketed with dense smoke from the intense musket and cannon fire. Having seen first hand a reenactment of Gettysburg, I can attest that even after a few volleys, visibility drops dramatically - and the reenactors were certainly not maintaining the same level of fire that was historically likely.

Smokeless powder wasn't available till the end of the 19th century. The first rifle introduced using it, the Lebel, came out in 1887. As I recall, US troops were quite discomforted by their first encounters with smokeless power in Cuba used by the Spanish during the Spanish American War in 1898.

[w_michael]

How widespread was this smokeless gunpowder? I am quite familiar with the Napoleonic period which is early 19th century and you always see swaths of smoke in pictures and movies that depict the battles..

My mistake. I typed 18th century instead of late 1800's. Sorry for the confusion.

I have a miniatures early Renaissance German Imperial army, that includes a stand of Petronel cavalry. The name was derived from the French word poitrine (chest) because the butt of the handgun usually rested against the chest when fired. Note from the figure below, they were well armoured.

Essex Miniatures

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[Dux Limitis]

How widespread was this smokeless gunpowder? I am quite familiar with the Napoleonic period which is early 19th century and you always see swaths of smoke in pictures and movies that depict the battles..

My mistake. I typed 18th century instead of late 1800's. Sorry for the confusion.

I have a miniatures early Renaissance German Imperial army, that includes a stand of Petronel cavalry. The name was derived from the French word poitrine (chest) because the butt of the handgun usually rested against the chest when fired. Note from the figure below, they were well armoured.

Petronel.jpg

They already treated as armoured as you see in the rulebook,also this miniature is based on a manuscript,which from the 1505 AD(It's pretty old school that man used a handgonne-like firearm in this period,as the matchlocks were already widely spread in the Western Europe).

[w_michael]

I played against Ghaznavid Naffatun for the first time, and loved the bomb graphics. Very nice.