Prussian 7 Years War - Siege of Pirna: Help please with Siege Tactics

[FabioD]

Hello,

I am really happy that I have recently found this fantastic game and started to play. After trying the first two scenario of the tutorial I moved to Spring of Nation.
Unfortunately, after trying many times, I am still stuck at the first scenario of the Prussian 7 Years War, the Siege of Pirna, and I wonder if some of you could give me some advice or tips.

Especially I am unable to conquer the city of Pirna and their VHs. I arrive easily at the city, conquering the surrounding towns and preventing Enemy HQ Cavalry to escape, in roughly 7 turns. Which is a lot of fun! But then I think that I am missing something in understanding of the tactics. I attack with the Feldkanonen and the Mörser the defense and protect those units with the other units in front. But I cannot really attack the enemy in the city with the other units (infantry and cavallery) due to the heavy support fire of the enemy. So they just progressively die and I lose due to too many turns.

I looked a lot in google, but couldn't find a solution...

Thanks a lot for help


Best,
Fabio

[lvjtn]

Fabio

thanks for playing this campaign

there are a few things what can be significant to win any scenarios made for spring of nations efile:

- use the longest (range-4) canons to silence the enemy's guns
- use your light cavalry (recon) to bypass the enemy's defense line and destroy the damaged guns
- use your combat support (hq infantry or hq cavalry) units to give more experience for your attacking units
- don't forget to train your combat support units, but be careful, they are expensive and vulnerable units, so use them to kill the damaged and/or weakest and/or out of ammo units

regarding pirna: i never attack from the north/north-west, i prefer concentrating my units in south/south-west. the goal is breaking the defense at one pont where the light cavalry can sneak behind the fortifications. use the "hit-and-run" ability of this recon class and don't forget, the strongest units are also vulnerable if it's out of ammo, so try to attack only a few enemy units but with as much units as possible

and the aux units are to die for glory, pride and prussia in this campaign

[FabioD]

Hello,

Thank you! These are really nice advice! Especially the use of light cavalry (recon) in combination with cannons, thanks. I think I was focusing the cannon fire not properly. I am looking forward to trying the scenario again soon! This time Pirna will fall ahaha

Cheers,
Fabio