Thats actually really neat. Honestly, bats are a neat, sometimes very familial creature. Makes sense that their reputation would be spoiled by vampires, and they would otherwise be relatively normal animal outside of few quirks.
I think we all know there is only one family batshit (heh) enough to ride a Terrogheist, even a trained one.
We could probably talk to Ava von Krieglitz about the potential of getting a Terrorgheist air force attempted, or have Freddy try to import some Terrorgheists into the MM for domestic war beast training as a diplomacy option. Freddy is the strange Elector Count that does strange new things, or crazy things, so if there's any problems it would be on his head instead of on Stirland's.
Is not that much an compeling argument when you would burst out flying units on once on a decade battles while most of the the time theu would be eating at your resources, and honestly ho would not send spare part to prolonged deployments, airships always where treated as the most elite forces on a army? Those things are pamepered.
Wasan't Dooming kinda arbitrary and not necessary to people be important trough?
Er... You understand that a plane is not a gryphon, like we would not use them the same way, think on more WW1 to 2 planes, bombing runs and ocasional dogfights against airborne enemies, a gryphon is more like an atack helicopter.
On the wiki Dooming is an important event in an Imperial's life. It is very much an Imperial tradition by Karl Franz's time, and came from the Imperials. At the age of 10 the imperial is taken to somebody and told how they will die. Different provinces add different customs to it, but that's about it.
So Fell Bats and Terrorgheists are possible to be taken and tamed by the empire or put into small private zoo/menageries are there still inough in Mountain caves
So typical Imperial death.
I wouldn't be surprised if bats have a very bad reputation in places like Ostland and Stirland.
Honestly i neiter see the need or the oppen niche that something like pegasi chavarely would have in our forces, what we need is stuff to take down dragons or another heavy flying units with meaningfull range capabilities, an pegassi knight get a lot of lead anyways. Oskana is a cool mount to a hero unit not an army unity
Before we upturned the province with our unified law it was adoration.
Air balloons are too static against a wyvern, a dragon, or a manticore. They'd be great against those with no living air force, but... only gyrocopters really have any form of decent agility in the skies as machines.
The best thinh i can think of is if we can study the cannon on the steam tanks an ofuit something like this on pur plane the ammunition would probably have to be an explosive harpoon that send srapnel on the creature insides. Or maybe you have more than one person on the plane and the gunner can lunch an mini doomsphere from a cannon (we have that project). But yeah sufice to say it would not be something for next turn.
I feel compelled to observe, whenever that video is brought up, that we don't know how much actual powder was loaded into that cannon.
So small groups of hippogryps and Terrorgheists for the big guys and Fell Bats for the small ones
