Androrc the Orc
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In case you are interested, here is the Grenzer description from Civ3 (they were present in the Napoleonic Europe scenario as a unique unit for Austria, replacing the default Musket Infantry):
A more thorough reference can be found in the academic article "The Austrian Army in the Age of Metternich" (Gunther E. Rothenberg, The Journal of Modern History, 1968):
Alternatively, Empire: Total War had an interesting unique unit for Austria, the "Windbuchse Jaegers". This is the unit's description:
Civilization III: Napoleonic Europe Scenario Grenzer Civilopedia Entry said:Grenzers were Austrian light infantry originally mustered in Croatia. Grenzers were promised a land entitlement in return for protecting border ("Grenze") areas against the Turks. Battalions of "Grenzinfanterie" were used as skirmishers, but they often fought in closed order.
A more thorough reference can be found in the academic article "The Austrian Army in the Age of Metternich" (Gunther E. Rothenberg, The Journal of Modern History, 1968):
Gunther E. Rothenberg said:There existed, however, one important exception to the general system of recruitment the famous Military Border or Militargrenze. Here, in a thin belt of land covering the entire southern frontier of Hungary-Croatia, a singular military institution had been created in the course of the Turkish wars. In this region the Hofkriegsrat [the highest level Austrian imperial military institution] superseded the civil authorities, and the entire area was organized "into regiments instead of counties, so that it is one vast camp, every soldier being a peasant and every peasant a soldier." And it should be emphasized that after the time of Maria Theresa the contingents of the Military Border, the Grenzer, were organized, armed, and drilled as components of the regular army. Of course, only part of the total available manpower of the Military Border was under arms at any one time, but here the principle of universal military service was carried out to the fullest, and when all reserves were called out the Grenzer could muster over one hundred thousand men.
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Exceptions to the general unpreparedness of the army could be found [...]. On the Military Border, especially in the Croatian sector facing the turbulent Bosnia, the Grenzer were almost constantly engaged in small wars, which on several occasions, in 1819, 1831, 1834, and again in 1845-46, escalated into regimental-sized battles.
Alternatively, Empire: Total War had an interesting unique unit for Austria, the "Windbuchse Jaegers". This is the unit's description:
Empire: Total War Windbuchse Jaegers Description said:These skirmishers and scouts carry almost-silent airguns and are well suited to stealthy sniping and tactical ambushes.
Windbuchsenjager are woodmen, 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 distinctively unfair advantage!
Apart from the fact that is silent, with no muzzle flash or smoke, the windbuchse ("wind rifle") has a 20-round magazine and fires as quickly as the jager can pull the trigger. The gun can drive a ball through a plank (or a man) at 100 paces,but the velocity of shots drop as the air reservoir empties. Austrian gunsmiths have produced a deadly, if delicate, weapon in the windbuchse! However, it needs a highly trained and very fit man to use it properly: pumping up the air reservoir is a huge effort.
Historically, 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.