Here in 1777 the British and the Separatist colonials faced off in an open field with sparse trees and fought what The Battle of Saratoga, now known as the turning point in the Revolutionary war, the first major rebel victory and one that convinced major European powers to give much needed material and naval support to the rebel cause(mainly France). The victory was aided greeatly by a decapitation strategy by a company of snipers called Morgan's rifles , some of whom had probably defected from the famous Rogers Rangers of new Hampshire. They had perched themselves in trees surrounding the battlefield and we're able to eliminate many British officers as they marched to battle.
Without this victory it is possible that the USA may have never existed. You can read more about it here
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battles_of_Saratoga
In light of this history there is of course the American military museum here in this town. I was there looking at some artillery pieces today such as these,
This Mortar weighed almost 18k lbs, or around 8k kg for all you Europeans. Ain't no way 4 guys are carrying this thing. Seriously ESO?
and I couldn't help but think that it must have been impossible for them to set up and move as fast as you are able to in the game. how do you think it could have changed the game to make artillery much less movable and a lot slower to set up than it is? I think heavy Cannon are about right but I don't think that horse artillery are at all realistic. And more importantly I think it negatively affects the strategy of the game. I know that the EPers did not want to change much about the game but I think the set up, take down time should be a lot more. Also, since capturing enemy artillery was such a huge part of warfare it would have been really cool to see that capability by say an infantry or cavalry charge if not culverin shot
Here is one example of captured British artillery and most of what the rebels had was captured. Even in European wars it was expected to be captured if a cavalry charge on artillery was successful otherwise it wouldn't even be worth it.
Also, the Germans did have muskets
Here is an Iroquois war club. Plaque calls it "hammer of death" these were the traditional Iroquois war weapon and they we're still using them even after the Europeans introduced steel for their tomohawks. Suprised they did not make an entrance into Aoe.
And here is Kaiserklein
