Battles of 1866: Austrian Gatling Guns (2014)

Overview

This is the sixth of the Avalanche Press Golden Journal supplements. It contains 21 additional counters with rules on their inclusion in two games. —user summary

For Frontier Battles, we look at Austria's too-little-too-late attempts to arm its infantry with breechloading rifles, and how this might have affected the outcome of the battles of 1866 had it been accomplished in time. We've provided new pieces for a brigade armed with Werndl breechloaders (Ferdinand Poschacher von Poschach's "Iron Brigade" of I Corps) so you can try it out in the Jicin scenarios.

As part of Austria's desperate attempts to re-arm, the Imperial-Royal Army acquired another new technology: the Gatling gun. The Viennese firm of Paget purchased a license and began production, but the guns did not reach the troops until years after the war had ended. Once again, we have new pieces to equip I and X Corps so you can mow down the Prussians at Jicin and Trautenau.

We went the route of weirdness and fun for Chickamauga&Chattanooga. You get pieces for the Confederate helicopter, so you can bomb the Yankee invaders into oblivion. Or as the Northern forces of freedom, you can deploy Siamese elephants.

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