plasticpanzers
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I know i can't shut up! LOL! but looking over the list of upgrades some can be tweaked to be national specific in nature to refect the differenct nations. Artillery: France, Russia, Britian. All had good art transport systems. Turkey, Austria, Sweden, and Spain did not or had very small art units. Artillery Ranging: France, Russia. These two nations had sophisticated artillery programs. Other nations had never organized theirs into really professional artillery for the majority of the war. Cav Ferocity: Britain (Union Brigade!), France, and Russia. All had superb battle cavalry. Austria's was well trained as induvidual units. Spain, Turkey, Sweden, and Prussia had smaller or almost nonexistant battle cavalry. Cav Operations: France, Russia, Prussia. British cav had a tendency to charge and not want to stop! Other nations cav to small to really upgrade Cav Training: France, Britain, Austria, Russia. The other nations again had limited cavalry assets. Column Fighting: France, Russia, Austria. Divisional Artillery: French specialty as well as Russia. Other nations had very small units of art attached to divisions and brigades. Field Medicine II: France only. Only nations to set up ambulance units and real hospitals other than to shovel wounded into fields and empty huts. Irregular Tactics: Russia! Levee in Masse: Russia, Prussia, Austria only after they have surrendered at least 2 times to another country. They then (in 1808-9 and for Russia in 1812) to allow peasants and serfs to bear arms. For Prussia it was nationalism. Line Marching: Britain March Logistics: Auto when Napoleon is in the province units start in. Massed Artillery: Auto for France when starting the game. Mixded order: French specific until later on when Prussia adopted a similar system. Nationalism I: all nations Nationalism II: Russia, Prussia Nationalism III: Prussia Naval Guns: Britain Naval Maneuvers: Britain Naval Repairs: Britain Organized Foraging: France specific and speciality! Patrotism: France, Prussia. Russia and Spain should be much higher Force March: If Napoleon present in starting province then auto for units force marching. Rocket troops: were only used as a small part of several batteries of British artillery. No effect at all at this scale other than a minor morale loss to cav attacking the British art div. Skirmish training: Britain, France, Prussia post 1808 Other nations had very limited real skirmish units. many in name only. very well documented Square Firepower: British specific! Target Practice: British start with this! Target Practice II: British specific. No other nation spent so much time developing firepower to offset enemy melee forces. Wheel Training: France and Britain. Maneuver was never a strong point for other nations. Spain, Turkey, Austria, and Prussia all ran their army as they were in the mid 1700s per maneuver. Winter Fighting: Sweden and Russia starting Winter Fighting: Russia specific I know i keep up with my comments but please understand i am very impressed with this game and there are ways i think to tweak it to a higher that would only improve it as a simulation of the wars of Napoleon and Europe. If its just a matter of having a "game engine" to adapt to other periods with no real difference then some of the comments made earlier on by others ring sadly true and it will remain a game that could take place anytime and anywhere with no real flavor of the period that really changed the world and created the modern Europe more so than than WWI. Very respectfully submitted! Tim (plasticpanzers)
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