<r>I would say that 200K of French having a spa in Finland would mean that the Spanish had occupied Paris and every other regional capital of France.<br/>
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Another question with this idea of limiting stacks - who really wanders around with fully factored up corps all the time. A bit of forage ...

<r>Soapyfrog, your webpage and campaign description rocks. What a wonderfully dynamic series of opening moves. The poor old British.<br/>
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Check out another long-running game that I have just recently got back into. There are some "stack wars" going on in central Europe, with rather unpleasant ...

<t>Yes, other than Leipzig and Borodino, there were few massive (120,000+ a side) stack battles through the Napoleonic period. But these two battles show that not only could they happen, but that they should be allowed to happen in the EIA rules, and I think the rules work in this respect.<br/>
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<t>That is exactly the point - there is a problem in EIA with overly big accumulated garrisons, it is not a large problem as it does not develop too often. Indeed, on the whole EIA is a pretty accurate reflection of Napoleonic combats, corp sizes, battle sizes, etc.<br/>
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The previous posts ...

<t>The suggestion immediately above has considerable merit.<br/>
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In the Napoleonic period the actual percentage of the adult male population under arms was not large when compared to twentieth century warfare, but it did become significant. Governments of the day did spend a very large amount ...

<t>To defend EIA and its historical representativeness: the game does, imho, a very good job of being historical. The corp sizes are based, at 1 factor per 1000 or so men, on historical corps – have a look at the French order of battle for the invasion of Russia in 1812 and its forces elsewhere ...

<r>This talk about limiting stacks is simply not historical. Armies were considerably smaller at the beginning of the period, but not by 1812-13.<br/>
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The single largest battle of the Napoleonic wars, the point at which France truly "fell", was Leipzig, which became known as the Battle of ...

<t>Being new to the forum, I don't know if this issue has come up. If not, it may be something that Matrix needs to take note of.<br/>
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When two nations are allied together and are besieging an enemy city, but have not combined movement for the turn, do they get to make two separate siege ...

<t>The point first made in this thread was well made, but the discussion has become a wee bit distracted. To repeat the issue: a problem can develop where countries build overly-large armies and garrisons, and these are not historical. This problem does not develop in many games, but it does develop ...