Well while a balloon is certainly feasible for the Empire, I have the impression that on the battlefield it'll probably be short lived... not necessarily because of field guns, mind you (I believe in real world terms it took until the FrancoPrussian war before somebody got the idea to blow up those observation balloons?), but because what with eagles, dragons, gyrocopters, harpies, flying goblins, and so on, being in a small basket suspended by oh so tearable cloth with a giant fire above you probably isn't the safest place to be. :p
Would make an interesting model though. ^^
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