Wellesley
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OK, Downloaded latest beta-patch and with all due respect: it sucks when it comes to Quick Battles. I'm very aware of most Napoleonic strategies and tactis - most notably Napoleon's "indirect approach" - but apparently, the game isn't. It's August, September, October and November 1793 and I'm marching eastward through Bavaria (Armée du Nord), the indirect approach, and Switzerland (Armée du Midi) as a direct approach, both with quite a bunch of elite and regular troops, in an effort to get the Austrians down on their knees. So Armée du Nord, with 63.4966 troops, switching south crashes on Tyrolia with 32.496 Austrian soldiers. I engage, French troops LOSE, even though the French have several higher levels of military Upgrades. One turn later. Armée du Nord and Armée du Midi link up in Switzerland and lo and behold, there's a defensive battle, so with all the pluses for the defenders, and all the negatives for the attackers. Numbers b4 battle begins: 98,758 French soldiers, 54,567 Austrian soldiers. French troops got a lot of arty and cavalry (mainly due to Armée du Midi), and since Detailed Combat still isn't as superfluous as it ought to be, I click 'Quick Battle', and lo and behold! The French lose. Then Burgundy. Armée du Midi and Armée du Nord combined. Present in Burgundy are also 1 Light Infantry, 1 Guard and one Horse Arty div. Austrians attack from Switzerland, Prussians from Palatinat. Total combat figures: 68.667 Austrian and Prussian, 118.676 French (Armée du Midi, Armée du Nord, Swiss Guard and 2 new divisions) and lo and behold: the French lose! Then Champagne. Armies: Du Nord, Du Midi, Swiss Guard, remnants of 2 divisions I mentioned above (Horse arty was captured apparently), added Militia in separate divs, extra arty div pulled up from Anjou. Result in Quick Battle as French defenders: Lose! Next turn: French armies spread out over Normany and Brittany, Austrian and Prussian minimal forces sieging Paris in Ile-de-France. As Ney would have said: "MERDE!" As Napoleon would have said had he been me: "En-cro-fookin'-yable!" Something very odd is happening here.
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