Why am I losing?

[Holy Diver]

Hi
Sorry for my english I hope you will understand me I have just bought RUS and I try to play Russian-Polish war. I play as a Poles and I've got big problems to fight with those Red Hordes. I know that I'm outnumbered but it seems that for Poles its hard to win even with favorable conditions. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong since my troops are better quality. When Reds are attacking I usually got huge loses. When they are attacking with more or less equal forces I usually will lose battle. To win i have to fight with much bigger forces and even this don't guarantee the succes. When odds are equeal or slightly good for me i will probably loose or took big loses. What I'm doing wrong?
Example(why i had lost it?):[ATTACH]22480[/ATTACH]

I didn't change my corps compositions(only some minor changes if any), so they look like at the beginning of the scenario. From what I've read on this forum game engine prefers few bigger divisions instead of more but smaller(which is bad I think) so is this a reason of my poor battle performance? What should I do with tanks and armored trains? From the begineing of the scenario I have two independent batalions of tanks which i wanted to use as a mobile reserve to quicly move them where they would be needed. But i think this is waste. Should I place them directly to Corps or Divisions?

Any advices how should I play this scenario?
Thnx for help. Great game btw

[Narwhal]

Well, I will just take the example you took.

YOur force is actually much weaker than his force. Of your 20 000 men, 12 000 are members of the supply trains (1 element of supply = 1000 men). Now you are 8 000 vs 12 000. Of your 8 000, you will have to take out the airforce members, the transmission element, the hospital element, ...

In this case, you had 14 infantry elements (2 Ukrainian elements, 2 Elite Polish elements, 10 regular polish elements) plus 1 elite cavalry, 1 conscript cavalry, in addition to 5 elements of artillery, against 10 elements of infantry, 2 elements of cavalry and 4 elements of artillery (Russian elements are bigger in men). Your were attacking, he was defending, his general is a tad better - loss was the most probable result.

[Philo32b]

Ah yes, I always forget about those supply trains.

Holy Diver, the composition of your divisions is also really important. Here is a link to Bornego's classic RUS AAR that is full of useful information. There is a RUS game mechanics index with links in his first post. One of those is Division composition. Even though the AAR isn't on the Polish war, it still would be very helpful.

One of the biggest challenge as Poland is that you are limited in building your armies to one-element units. You will see when you play the Grand Campaign that you can build truly monster divisions when you construct them out of multi-element brigades.