![]() Leopold’s cries for help did not remain unanswered. But he wasn’t going to abandon his capital to the Turks either and feverishly petitioned the German and Polish nobility to come to Vienna’s aid. A bookworm and music composer, the pious Leopold wasn’t much of a warrior. In contrast to the offensive spirit of Mustafa, Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I (1658-1705) cowardly fled his own capital for the safety of Passau. Determined to follow in the footsteps of the great Islamic conquerors of old, Mustafa had set out to overcome the barrier that once before, in 1529, blocked the westward advance of the Ottoman Turks: Vienna, capital of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Imperial dynasty, the House of Hapsburg. Mustafa cared only for his own career and freely used deceit and blackmail to make up for his lack of any real talent. His one redeeming quality was his personal bravery, but even this was tarnished by acts of extreme brutality he once flayed captured Poles alive and sent their stuffed hides to the Sultan as trophies. Outwardly handsome, dignified, and a devout Muslim, inwardly the Grand Vizier was an arrogant power monger with an unveiled hatred of Christians. But such modest aims did not satisfy Mustafa. By laying siege to Vienna, Mustafa disobeyed Sultan Mehmed IV (1648-1687), who intended that Mustafa do little more than capture Imperial frontier fortresses. Mustafa had another reason to press on he feared the Sultan’s punishment in the event of failure. Nonetheless, Mustafa’s confidence in victory remained undiminished. Worse still, there were rumors of an immense Christian army approaching from the Vienna Woods. Among the Turks disease was out of control owing to inadequate sanitary facilities, casualties were horrendous, and morale was sagging. Mustafa’s Fierce Ambition for the Ottoman EmpireĪt least Starhemberg could take heart in knowing that conditions were little better among the enemy. The 1683 Battle of Vienna was about to begin. Without that army, the Turks would pour into the city and wantonly enslave and butcher its inhabitants. The city’s only hope was the timely arrival of the anxiously awaited Christian relief army. Starhemberg knew that Vienna’s defenses were at their end. After fending off 18 major Turkish assaults, only a third of the originally 11,500-strong garrison remained fit for combat and their munitions were nearly exhausted. Sewage, rubble, and corpses littered the streets and disease ran rampant. Turkish mines and bombardment opened huge gaps in the city walls. The Turkish Serasker (Supreme Commander), Grand Vizier Kara “Black” Mustafa, demanded surrender, but Count Ernst Rüdiger von Starhemberg, commander of Vienna’s garrison, spat back, “Let him come I’ll fight to the last drop of blood.” That last drop of blood had almost been reached. You have to save him at the start of the scenario, and he then stays in Potonchán for the remainder.For nearly two long months, from July 14 to early September 1683, Vienna endured the siege from the Ottoman Empire. The player’s homecity will take the form of ships, like in the Chinese campaign.Ĭortés is an NPC that orders you around. Once they set up in Potonchan, they’ll be able to send homecity shipments, which includes Lancers, Cannoneers, and more Falconets, but they won’t be able to train any cavalry or gunpowder units normally. The player would have no cavalry at the start (The horses were all still back on the ships) and two starting falconets. They would then have to prepare as the Maya mass troops in Cintla, before having to defeat them, either attacking them directly in the plains, or waiting for them to attack the city and beating back the siege. The start of the scenario would play out as the player having limited forces and trying to take the city, and once the Community Plaza in the great square is secured, they would take control of the city and be able to build their own base there. The Maya then finally surrendered when they saw cavalry for the first time. In response, Cortés sent more men into the the plains to Cintla, where Potonchán’s subject villages were, and where another large battle ensued. Once Alonso de Ávila’s men arrived the Maya routed into the countryside and the Spaniards took the city.Īfter another smirkish the next day between some of Cortés’s men and the Maya, Cortés learned that the Maya were going to attempt to retake the city. Requesting to land on the shores, Cortés was denied and the Maya began firing arrows at him, starting the battle. Cortés sent Alonso de Ávila with one hundred soldiers out on the road leading to the city, while Cortés and another group of soldiers went upriver in boats. Potonchán, capital of the Tabasco Maya kingdom, was the first conquest of Hernan Cortés in the new world. Enemy Civilization: Maya (Modified Aztecs) ![]()
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