Charles wrote:The Prussian Army winning most of their battles had more to do with the quality of the officers/generals; planning, aggressiveness of Frederick, lack of a killer instinct by his opponents. This is already reflected in the general's stats.
On the officers, the Prussian Army did have a higher proportion than most of native officers and they seemed to have had better schooling than most in the art of war, although some of his best generals like James Keith was Scottish.
My comment was more that one company of Prussian infantry is probably as good as one company of Austrian, Russian, British infantry.
Agreed that the Elite/Regular replacement dichotomy is probably more trouble than it is worth.
I would still disagree, they where better trained and everyone at the time agreed, that is the reason Austria got the huge coalition together.
Now the Austrians had some very good units and they have them in the game, but we are talking in average here, they also had very bad ones.
The Russians where, as they historically have been, very good at holding a defensive position but their generals did not want to engage a Prussian force same or bigger size and especially anywhere with a flat and clear terrain..
British had very good standing units and i would class them close to the Prussian but even British officers noted the Prussians abilities.
And the reasons is not only the officers, the drill and general orders where different and better, later copied by others.
Now they have this already in the game, the rate of fire and marching speed but some stats i would like a notch up.
Like discipline value from 7 to 8 in line infantry, now they have units ranging from 7 to 10 because of different models and not unit experience.
Picking one value to make an average line infantry unit is what i am suggesting, they had standards and inspected them annually so that they actually met them.
The elite replacements for grenadiers is good, they where that and that is why they gathered them as separate battalions.
Making the grenadiers the only units receiving elite replacements could be done by removing one elite depot battalion and converting it in to a regular depot battalion.
I would be happy even if the lowest stats are used as the average as long as the elite line infantry is removed from the game..
The biggest weakness for the Prussians was not keeping the line infantry battalions in good drill, it was keeping them manned, drop in troop quality should come from loosing troops with experience points.