Austria-Hungary

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I'd like to know how will Austria-Hungary compensate the of lack of tanks in multiplayer game for example ?

According to the Osprey book 'WW1 Trench Warfare' "The armies of Europe were acknowledged for their diverse national characters and strengths: the Austrians, for their super-heavy Skoda siege artillery; the French, for their dash: the Russians, for their numbers and doggedness; the British, for their discipline and steadiness and their skilled musketry"

Taking the quote above as example, one of solutions to compensate the lack of tanks of the austria-hungarian army, would give them more powerful artillery such Skoda 305 mm - performing as a superheavy mortar -, or the 21 cm Mörser M. 16 for example.

Edit: Just realized that the Russians had no tanks too, only prototypes.

[Mestermagyar]

First tanks were used in like 1917 (dont think like it was that powerful), and were mostly used in western frontlines, also not all of them were like in Indiana Jones. Austria-hungary was dealing with ones like dirt-small Serbia, un-advanced Russia with communist rebels in their back, and Italy.

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In MP battles, countries with tanks will have advantage against countries without, unless they give the austrians and russians advantages to compensate the lack of tanks.

Perhaps making tanks expensive, thus the cost of it could be diverted to other stuff by the nations who lacks it. Or like i said above, give the nations their historical strength; A-H with skoda heavy arty and Russia with high number of troops. If they find a formula to make the MP balanced, i'm ok

[Hololo]

Those country had armored car armed with some cannon that would be enougth to knock out any tank.

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I don't think A-H had that thing.

[Hayden the first watcher]

Austria Hungary had a few armored cars and they did build a tank prototype but thats about it.

[HerrDak]

Like the other Nations, Austria Hungary must have his own playstyle and, in my opinion, according to history facts it must be a DEFENSIVE ORIENTED FACTION with CHEAP INFANTRY and GOOD ARTILLERY SUPPORT. Remember that Austria-Hungary was most of the time in defensive battles and could only mount effective offensives with german support.

Austrian playstyle: Infantry+Artillery.

The Austrian should take over the battefield in the beginning of the match with the cheap infantry and prepare defensive positions with the Engineers and Artillery to hold the Medium and Late Game against more offensive oriented factions.

Here are some ideas for the Rooster:


Regular Infantry:

1. Landsturm (K.K. Austrian/ K.U. Hungarian): Cheap Infantry with low accuracy. Low CP, Cost and Time to bring them to the battefield.

Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1890. Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol.

2. K.K. Landwehr/ K.U. Honved: Regular Infantry, normal accuracy and no items. (If its possible, the troops should arrive in battle with their own uniforms -Austrian Landwehr and Hungarian Honved- in a proportion of 2/1).

Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1895 . Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol.

3. K.u.K. Infantry (Common Army): Regular Infantry, with normal accuracy and armed with Frag Grenades (1 for each soldier).

Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1895 . Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol.

Elite Infantry:

1. KáiserJäger: High Accuracy and Frag Grenades.
2. Bosnian-Herzegovinian: High Accuracy, Frag Grenades and AT Grenades.
3. Stormtroopers: Specialized Troops to take on enemy fortifications (like the german ones).

All with Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1895. Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol. (except for the especial arms of the Stormtroopers).

Support Infantry:

1. Pioneers: Should bring 3 sandbags and 3 barbwire, 4 Mines per soldier.
2. Storm Pioneers: Should Bring 2 sandbags, 2 barbwire and 2 Mines per soldiers (and a lot of AT Grenades).
3. Feldjäger.
4. Officer.
5. Gunners.

Artillery:

1. Schwarzlose M/12: Machinegun with greater range of fire (exceeded the standart Machinegun range). Can be operated with hinged shield and tripod and as a light machinegun.
2. 37 mm Skoda L 310 M 1915 Infantry gun: With HE and Shrapnel Shells.
3. 80 mm FeldKanone M. 17: Normal (HE and Shrapnel Shells) and Gas).
3. 90 mm Granatenwerfer.

Armored Vehicles:

1. Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen.
2. Junovicz P.A.1.

Transport and Procurement:

1. Horse.
2. Austro-Daimler M12.

Heavy Artillery:

1. 100 mm M. 14 Feldhaubitze: Normal (HE and Shrapnel Shells) and Gas.
2. 120 mm Minenwerfer M16: With HE and Gas.
3. 305 mm Škoda Mörser M. 11 (Only Mobile with the Austro-Damiler M12).

DEVS: If you are interested in some of this units or ideas I can help with information and photos, and with wathever you need, of course for free.

Sorry for the long post, here you have some austro-hungarians fighting :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_kFBRtTXg&index=1&list=PLD7BE82433C134D59

[volchonok]

Hello. Thanks for your ideas :) We are indeed currently working on adding the Austria-Hungary to multiplayer. 305mm artillery will probably not be added (as it vastly outpower all other guns in game). But it will indeed have more artillery pieces than other countries and they will be a bit more cheaper than for other nations.

[MeoW.Kosic]

Originally posted by HerrDak:

Like the other Nations, Austria Hungary must have his own playstyle and, in my opinion, according to history facts it must be a DEFENSIVE ORIENTED FACTION with CHEAP INFANTRY and GOOD ARTILLERY SUPPORT. Remember that Austria-Hungary was most of the time in defensive battles and could only mount effective offensives with german support.

Austrian playstyle: Infantry+Artillery.

The Austrian should take over the battefield in the beginning of the match with the cheap infantry and prepare defensive positions with the Engineers and Artillery to hold the Medium and Late Game against more offensive oriented factions.

Here are some ideas for the Rooster:


Regular Infantry:

1. Landsturm (K.K. Austrian/ K.U. Hungarian): Cheap Infantry with low accuracy. Low CP, Cost and Time to bring them to the battefield.

Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1890. Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol.

2. K.K. Landwehr/ K.U. Honved: Regular Infantry, normal accuracy and no items. (If its possible, the troops should arrive in battle with their own uniforms -Austrian Landwehr and Hungarian Honved- in a proportion of 2/1).

Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1895 . Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol.

3. K.u.K. Infantry (Common Army): Regular Infantry, with normal accuracy and armed with Frag Grenades (1 for each soldier).

Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1895 . Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol.

Elite Infantry:

1. Bosnian-Herzegovinian: High Accuracy and Frag Grenades.
2. KáiserJäger: High Accuracy, Frag Grenades and AT Grenades.
3. Stormtroopers: Specialized Troops to take on enemy fortifications (like the german ones).

All with Infantry Rifle: Manlicher M1895. Officer: Roth-Krnka M.7 Pistol. (except for the especial arms of the Stormtroopers).

Support Infantry:

1. Pioneers: Should bring 3 sandbags and 3 barbwire, 4 Mines per soldier.
2. Storm Pioneers: Should Bring 2 sandbags, 2 barbwire and 2 Mines per soldiers (and a lot of AT Grenades).
3. Feldjäger.
4. Officer.
5. Gunners.

Artillery:

1. Schwarzlose M/12: Machinegun with greater range of fire (exceeded the standart Machinegun range). Can be operated with hinged shield and tripod and as a light machinegun.
2. 37 mm Skoda L 310 M 1915 Infantry gun: With HE and Shrapnel Shells.
3. 80 mm FeldKanone M. 17: Normal (HE and Shrapnel Shells) and Gas).
3. 90 mm Granatenwerfer.

Armored Vehicles:

1. Austro-Daimler Panzerwagen.
2. Junovicz P.A.1.

Transport and Procurement:

1. Horse.
2. Austro-Daimler M12.

Heavy Artillery:

1. 100 mm M. 14 Feldhaubitze: Normal (HE and Shrapnel Shells) and Gas.
2. 120 mm Minenwerfer M16: With HE and Gas.
3. 305 mm Škoda Mörser M. 11 (Only Mobile with the Austro-Damiler M12).

DEVS: If you are interested in some of this units or ideas I can help with information and photos, and with wathever you need, of course for free.

Sorry for the long post, here you have some austro-hungarians fighting :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4_kFBRtTXg&index=1&list=PLD7BE82433C134D59

AH had Romfell armored car too.

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I'm glad this thread got attention by the devs! thank you all!

[HerrDak]

Originally posted by volchonok:

Hello. Thanks for your ideas :) We are indeed currently working on adding the Austria-Hungary to multiplayer. 305mm artillery will probably not be added (as it vastly outpower all other guns in game). But it will indeed have more artillery pieces than other countries and they will be a bit more cheaper than for other nations.

Thank you, I like that AH will have more art, that will benefit a more defensive oriented nation. :)