New equipment arrives at the
Guards Army Corps!
I have a new cannon with a brand-new story and my own rules.
This cannon is now in the experimental stage:
The Hochland Forest Cannon
The
Hochland Forest Cannon is a relative new invention in the Empire but in the regions of
Hochland spaciously known.
A rarely known but quite talented master technicus from
Hergig,
Friedemar von Plöckingen, noticed some years ago that there are only few cannons in the
Guards Army Corps of Hochland.
The reason for this circumstance is the commander of the artillery regiment,
Konrad Ludenhof, the son of the Elector, who has an outstanding antipathy to cannons.
However the use of cannons in the mostly wooded districts of
Hochland is very difficult or even impossible too.
Only in particular regions of
Hochland or the use on missions outside of
Hochland cannons could be effective.
To shoot with cannon into a forest or to shoot out of a forest or to shoot within a forest is possible but not most effective. The line of sight is limited because of the many trees and the ballistic trajectory of a cannonball is uncalculable.
So
Friedemar von Plöcklingen got the idea to develop a cannon for the use in forests.
The cannon had to be small and mobile to move it in the forest. Horses or a team of oxen wasn’t the right approach. The cannon must be moved by the crew.
The range of such ordnance is not very important because in a battle in the forest the front lines are nearby.
The main parameter to think about was the caliber and the kind of bullet such a cannon use.
Von Plöckingen developed a small-bore bullet that bursts on the ground or in the trees.
It was especially important that these bullets had enough fragmentation and can hit a major area with their disgusting and often deadly splints from the bullet and the trees.
After some years of research and development he produced the
Hochland Forest Cannon.
The original name of the cannon was:
“Von Plöckingens movable gunpowder gadget for perforation of the Hochland tree population and the thereby simultaneously connected life ending of hostile minded invaders”.
This title impressed the Elector when he was personally present at the demonstration of the new weapon but he decided that this title was too long and maybe a little unknowable to the simple minded soldiers in his army.
Therefore he ordered to call the new cannon
„Hochland Forest Cannon“.
Due to the excellent demonstration one
Hochland Forest Cannon was delegated on a trial basis to the
Independent Cannon Battery of the Artillery Regiment “Kurprinz Konrad Ludenhof” at
Burg Schippel.
Rules:The profile of the cannon and the crew is the same as normal empire cannon!
100 Points
Crew of three with hand weapon
War machine
Special rules:
The
Hochland Forest Cannon can move in and through Forests! Forests are not impassable terrain.
Range: 36 inch
Strength: 4/2
Rending
The
Hochland Forest Cannon will shoot to the rules like cannon in the
Warhammer rulebook.
Exceptions:
- Every miniature beneath the line between the first and the second point of impact suffers a rending hit with strength 4.
- Place the 3 inch template at the second point of impact. This is the splinter effect of the cannon.
- Every miniature beneath the template suffers a rending hit with strength 2.
- When miniatures are beneath the line between the first and the second point of impact and under the template too, they suffers only the strength 2 hit!
Case shot:
The
Hochland Forest Cannon will shooting case shots to the rules like cannon in the
Warhammer rulebook.
Exceptions:
- Range: 8 inch
- Strength: 2
- Rending
