Everyone know that during a siege, we are bound to see a lot of artillery, this will also be the case in this Siege of Vienna game.
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| Ottoman Field Gun manned by a Balkan crew |
The Ottoman Artillery will initially be focused on executing the ongoing bombardment of the city but then scrambling to redirect their fire on the pending Imperial attack. I have taken the view that the heavy siege weapons would not be able to re-deploy against the Imperial forces appearing at their rear - these will be off-table.
Instead it is Field guns and Light guns that will be able to be redeployed to cover the rear, as the game progresses. As such there are five Field Gun batteries and a Light battery available to the Ottoman forces in the game
The Light Gun Battery
Available from turn one of eth game, this piece is hand portable and can fire immediately at the oncoming Imperial hordes.
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| Ottoman two man, Light Gun crew. The gun model will likely be swapped out for the game for a more realistic looking piece of equipment |
The Field Gun Batteries
These will become available, basis a die roll at the start of each turn, on a score of '1' on turn one, the guns can redeploy that turn and are available to fire the following turn. On turn two the battery will redeploy on a '1' or '2', and so on until turn six when all guns will be able to redeploy if not yet done so.
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| Two more Field Gun batteries, manned by Turkish crews |
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| And the other two Field Gun batteries, again manned by Turkish crews. |
The Gun Master
The Ottomans will also have the services of a Master Gunner, who will be able to share his knowledge and experience of the art of gunnery with the crews. This will help the speed up initial redeployments and later accuracy of their firing
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| The Ottoman Master Gunner |
