Hurray!  Now I can rest for a day or two while everybody sends me their September orders.

Incidently - other than the Mods and the Crusaders themselves, I'm not getting very much feedback on the war postings to date.  Is the frequency of postings acceptable?  Content and level of detail okay?  Realistic?

Feedback helps me produce a more enjoyable product, and encourages me to continue slogging away at this.

I think they've been fantastic so far.

*Allows coffee exports to CSA*

I seem to get back into the right mindset due this war.

Now to bend those few braincells to the HY reports of France.  That would make my integration complete again.

Sorry, Rocky. Didn't mean to make you feel unappreciated. The stories are outstanding. My biggest hurdle in reading them is my lack of knowledge of Balkan Geography. It's even more fun here because things sometimes have different non-historic names. But as to the actual fighting/deployment the stories are fine. Keep up the great work.  :)

The battles look realistic. The failure of the Ottomans to stop the Austrian offensive seems a bit weird seen in the light of OTL (Darnalles) but I don't have a problem with it.

Quote from: Desertfox on July 27, 2008, 12:08:01 AM
The battles look realistic. The failure of the Ottomans to stop the Austrian offensive seems a bit weird seen in the light of OTL (Darnalles) but I don't have a problem with it.

A mere two generations difference in equipment.

The OTL Gallipoli had the Ottomans using a triangler division (state of the art for WW1) with front line equipement and battle experienced units from the Balkan Wars.

This Balkan war has the Ottoman Fortress troops using tech from the 1880's...  See the forts in Belgium or Russia / Poland in WW1 to see how that plays out.  Once the lines are breached this units can't manuver and loose their firepower.  They become very bad light infantry.

At Galipoli it was trench warfare, of two armies not prepared for it, and not siege warfare, i.e. attacking exisitng fortifications.

Trying to avoid too much hinsightism, in my various writings I tred to mention the exprience the fighting for peace Habsburgs have gathered:
-  Spanish Civil war - in contrast to Central Europe, in Spain everything - even sheperd's huts - are of stone or brick - thus making shrapnel useless; lesson number One - issue HE shells to artillery
- Aden - city fighting - even against militia, this was a bloody lesson number Two - reinvent the grenade;
- siege of El Dorado - lesson number Three - indirect fire, high angle fire - issue more howitzers;
- siege of Niu Amsterdam - how NOT to make a naval landing, and fighting against 2nd line, but determined troops in trenches; lesson number Four - ramming home of previous lessons;

- the Brasilian Crusade provided lessons of another type - of moving troops over large distances, broken terrain, against fierce but localised opposition

Azores and fighting with Yemeni tribesmen - no useful lessons learned.

Hmm - are my Freedom Fighters the most bloodied army in N-Verse?

Borys

BTW, are the miscellaneous South American navies on raider hunting already in the war?

Quote from: P3D on July 27, 2008, 11:31:18 AM
BTW, are the miscellaneous South American navies on raider hunting already in the war?

No. They are on "neutrality patrols".
Borys

Would be very interesting to learn how "raider" is defined.

Quote from: Korpen on July 27, 2008, 12:20:42 PM
Would be very interesting to learn how "raider" is defined.

Raider - any ship which is doing nasty things to our shipping.

I have two days of travel about to start, so my access will be sporadic.  I will be taking advantage of my hotel time tonight to sim out stuff, however, so all is not lost.