But you can also use some of the powerful events with the power to change the course of battle. So what you can do? Conduct deadly assaults against impenetrable fortifications, dig tunnels packed with explosives, and launch desperate attacks to delay your enemy’s advance. This beautiful, asymmetric wargame gives you many options to outmaneuver opponent and keeps the tension to the last moment. You will have a complete different set of cards for each player, your actions will be similar only to some extent and the goals and victory conditions – completely different. In Fire & Stone: Siege of Vienna 1683 you are placed as one of the commanders in one of the most dramatic sieges in history. Material which I created about the game mechanics The red tent of the grand vizier was blown up, but he escaped while thousands of members of his routed army were slaughtered or taken prisoner. The battle raged for 15 hours before the Ottoman invaders were driven from their trenches. The 80,000 troops of this relieving army formed along the top of the Vienna hills, and, on the morning of September 12, Lorraine’s and Sobieski’s forces attacked the Ottomans.īy this point, Ottoman forces had made serious inroads into the city’s defenses and are generally believed to have come closer to taking Vienna than they were in 1529. Pope Innocent XI tried unsuccessfully to induce Louis XIV of France to aid Leopold against the Ottomans and then appealed to Poland with a large subsidy.Īlthough Sobieski and the emperor had made a pact of alliance earlier that year, Sobieski was reluctant to come until Innocent persuaded Charles of Lorraine to join a combined army with the electors of Saxony and Bavaria as well as 30 German princes. With the tacit support of the Hungarian army, 150,000 Ottoman troops laid siege to Vienna, succeeded in capturing the outer fortifications, and began to tunnel to the inner walls. The leader of the Hungarian Calvinists, Imre Thököly, appealed to the Ottoman grand vizier, Kara Mustafa, to attack the Habsburg capital. The lifting of the siege marked the beginning of the end of Ottoman domination in eastern Europe. Siege of Vienna, (lasting from July to September 12, 1683), was an expedition by the Ottomans against the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Leopold I that resulted in their defeat by a combined force led by John III Sobieski of Poland. In the end, I am wargamer very much focusing on actual history so this is very important dimension for me. Let me bring some more background story before we shall talk about the game. Hopefully that will be interesting for you! The Story
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Today I would like to bring to you some more information about it, its story, one of my session reports plus my initial thoughts about it. The game is making pretty well impression on me in various dimensions. I admit, I am not stopping with playing Fire & Stone which is definitely one of my best acquisitions on Essen Spiel 2022.
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