Game: Guess the (historical) character!

[Landwalker]

'Fraid not. Vauban's a few decades too early for this guy.

Edit: I also don't know of any reference to Vauban having first-hand skill at Gunnery, though it makes sense as an inferred skill.

[trans]

de Gribeauval? He was more TL5, though.

[Landwalker]

Originally Posted by trans

de Gribeauval? He was more TL5, though.

Er, that should have read "Vauban is a few decades too young," not too early.

In any case, Jean-Baptiste Vaquette de Gribeauval is also incorrect. Certainly a revolutionary of artillery, but I'm not sure he reached such high status, and I'd certainly expect him to have Engineer (Artillery) rather than Engineer (Combat).

Edit: It may be helpful to know that late in his career, this gentleman also held a healthy dose of Administrative Rank.

[fredtheobviouspseudonym]

Originally Posted by Landwalker

Edit: I also don't know of any reference to Vauban having first-hand skill at Gunnery, though it makes sense as an inferred skill.

IIRC Vauban came up with the stone-load for mortars as an anti-personnel weapon. I'd give him some practical skill at Gunnery. (See Duffy, "Fire & Stone.)

Are you thinking the young Napoleon?

Hasn't he been done already?

[Landwalker]

Napoleon is far, far too young. Unless there's some 17th-century Napoleon I don't know about.

[fredtheobviouspseudonym]

Originally Posted by Landwalker

Napoleon is far, far too young. Unless there's some 17th-century Napoleon I don't know about.

Sorry -- IIRC Vauban died in 1707, so I was thinking a "few decades" too long.

Charles XII of Sweden? Peter the Great? Don't know if Marshal Saxe or "Corporal John" (Duke of Marlborough) had much ability with cannon.

[Landwalker]

Duke John is chronologically the closest, although all are around half a century after this fellow.

Didn't realize this one was going to be as tough as it seems to be.

[trans]

Is this person European?

[Landwalker]

They are indeed European. But they are not French or British.

[trans]

Originally Posted by Landwalker

They are indeed European. But they are not French or British.

That and the time period would tend to point towards the Thirty Years' War, but I can't come up with any generals that have all those traits.