Windbusche Jaegers (ETW Unit)
| Windbusche Jaegers (ETW Unit) | |
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| File:Windbushe Jaegers.png | |
| Class | Light Infantry |
| Unit Size | 60 Men |
| Weaponry | Airguns |
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| Region | Central Europe |
| Recruitment Cost | 920 |
| Upkeep Cost | 230 |
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| Building Requirements | Army Staff College |
| Technology Requirements | Airguns |
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File:Windbushe Jaegers thumb.png These Skirmishers and Scouts carry almost silent Airguns and are well suited to stealthy sniping and tactical ambushes.
Overview
Windbüchsenjäger are woodsmen, hunters and poachers – men with a good grasp of field craft. Their speciality is skirmishing, to disrupt enemy formations with harassing fire, or to stop the enemy doing the same to their comrades. Unlike other light troops, however, they carry airguns. These weapons give them a distinctly unfair advantage!
Apart from the fact that is silent, with no muzzle flash or smoke, the windbüchse (“wind rifle”) has a 20-round magazine and fires as quickly as the jäger can pull the trigger. The gun can drive a ball through a plank (or a man) at 100 paces, but the velocity of shots drops as the air reservoir empties. Austrian gunsmiths have produced a deadly, if delicate, weapon in the windbüchse! However, it needs a highly trained and very fit man to use it properly: pumping up the air reservoir is a huge effort.
Historically, these airguns were not a success. They were quiet, but they did not work after rough treatment, something that was inevitable in battle. Napoleon Bonaparte hated them and decreed that any captured “assassin” with an airgun was to be executed, not treated as a soldier.
Details
Although Windbuchse Jaegers have 25 percent less men than regular Light Infantry they make up for this deficiency through their superiority in accuracy and their much higher fire rate. Windbucshe Jaegers carry the silent Air gun, meaning that they are useful as stealthy units. They should be used to harass the enemy line and ambush incoming enemy soldiers. However as with most Light Infantry Windbuchse Jaegers have low melee statistics and so should avoid melee situations, especially cavalry charges.
