Unannounced factions

[Drama407]

#1: Nationalists and mountain units. Has to be Sardinia and later the Kingdom of Italy. I hope the 2nd war of Italian Independence is in the game

#2: Skirmishers? Could be Austrian Jaegers? I would like to see Austria as a playable faction.

Also 2 DLC on launch, it could be cool if they did a Civil War DLC!

[mundl19]

Austria and Italy are my guesses

[Benavert]

Mountain units definitely means Sardinia/Italy, by this point they were already pretty famous for their mountaineers.

As for the other faction I *think* they mean the Austrian Empire or the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. The Hungarian side of the state would have its own army (albeit under total command of the Austrians) both before and after the Ausgleich. I don't know whether they had great jäger forces at this point, I know that during the Napoleonic Wars they were some of the best *but* also way understaffed, which the Austrians might have fixed by the second half of the 19th century.

[Salgiel]

Civil War DLC is confirmed for launch.

[Turtler]

I'll echo what the others have said. Piedmont-Sardinia/Italy and Habsburg Austria. Indeed I am pretty sure that the art of the leaders has Victor Emmanuel II as the man on the far right of the picture.

Originally posted by Psyduck:

Mountain units definitely means Sardinia/Italy, by this point they were already pretty famous for their mountaineers.

As for the other faction I *think* they mean the Austrian Empire or the Austro-Hungarian dual monarchy. The Hungarian side of the state would have its own army (albeit under total command of the Austrians) both before and after the Ausgleich. I don't know whether they had great jäger forces at this point, I know that during the Napoleonic Wars they were some of the best *but* also way understaffed, which the Austrians might have fixed by the second half of the 19th century.

On the whole I agree, but the game is focused before the Ausgleich, which happened in 1867. Moreover, most of the likely involvement for them would be before it happens, whether it's the War of Solferino in 1859 or the Austro-Prussian War of 1866.

That said there were already significant Hungarian units (and resentment, given the aftershocks of 1848), so I imagine that would fit.

In general the Habsburgs had a long and gifted tradition with skirmishers and were even early adopters of the rifle, but those units were relatively few and far between, and struggled in the face of it.

And no, they did not fix the understaffing issue.