Russian Guard
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I have found a real preference for smaller Corps, just thought I'd share my experience. When I have an Army (non-French) with 2 full-sized Corps attached (6 Divisions, or 7 if I have the Corps up-grade), I find myself usually deployed at the start of detailed battles as two big "lumps" of divisions. This often contributes to the issue of your Artillery getting exposed and attacked by enemy cavalry, for example, not to mention "untangling" the glob of divisions that are deployed in a cluster. I experimented recently with having an Army consisting of 4 Corps, each with 4 divisions attached, along with one or two divisions attached to the Army itself. What I found was that in detailed battles, my forces were deployed across a broader front, by Corps, less jumbled together and really creating more deployment options (especially outflanking the enemy). The downside to this approach is that you need to build more Corps containers (costing alot more Textiles in particular) and it spreads your generals out across more Corps. Some Corps will have no generals, so you lose their benefit. I rarely play the French but I think, given their abundance of quality generals and Corps to start the game, this will work wonderfully for the French... FWIW
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