A change to a different Era.
December 19th 1700.
The Great Northern War.
Peter the Great ruled Russia and was seeking to take a warm water port in the Baltic holdings of the Swedish Empire, at the time Russia was less advanced than the rest of Europe and certainly less advanced than the Swedish Caroleans (more on them later)
Allying himself with Denmark-Norway and Poland-Lithuania the allies attacked Sweden on five different fronts.
Swedish Leader Charles XII assisted by the Dutch navy and British Royal Navy landed in Copenhagen Denmark. Forcing Denmark-Norway to leave the alliance.
Russian forces used the temporary absence of Charles XII to lay seige to the Estonian town of Narva.
Sweden at the time had the most advanced military in Europe, firearms at the time needed 1-2 minutes to reload and had an effective range of 50 meters. By using massed fire at close range Swedish Caroleans were able to bait their enemies into shooting early, vastly reducing their accuracy. This left the enemy vulnerable to melee attack while they reloaded. First they would walk calmly into enemy fire, yelling the characteristic Gå-På (go on) battlecry. An extremely religious group they would match side by side with priests into battle.
After the enemy discharged their weapons at an ineffective range the Caroleans would rush forward into melee combat, using swords, axes, pikes (using the pike as an offensive rather than defensive weapon is extremely unique for the time) and bayonets
Doing this they were able to use their superior hand to hand capabilities to overcome vastly superior enemy numbers
December 19th 1700.
The Great Northern War.
Peter the Great ruled Russia and was seeking to take a warm water port in the Baltic holdings of the Swedish Empire, at the time Russia was less advanced than the rest of Europe and certainly less advanced than the Swedish Caroleans (more on them later)
Allying himself with Denmark-Norway and Poland-Lithuania the allies attacked Sweden on five different fronts.
Swedish Leader Charles XII assisted by the Dutch navy and British Royal Navy landed in Copenhagen Denmark. Forcing Denmark-Norway to leave the alliance.
Russian forces used the temporary absence of Charles XII to lay seige to the Estonian town of Narva.
Sweden at the time had the most advanced military in Europe, firearms at the time needed 1-2 minutes to reload and had an effective range of 50 meters. By using massed fire at close range Swedish Caroleans were able to bait their enemies into shooting early, vastly reducing their accuracy. This left the enemy vulnerable to melee attack while they reloaded. First they would walk calmly into enemy fire, yelling the characteristic Gå-På (go on) battlecry. An extremely religious group they would match side by side with priests into battle.
After the enemy discharged their weapons at an ineffective range the Caroleans would rush forward into melee combat, using swords, axes, pikes (using the pike as an offensive rather than defensive weapon is extremely unique for the time) and bayonets
Doing this they were able to use their superior hand to hand capabilities to overcome vastly superior enemy numbers