NIR Project updates

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RE: NIR Project updates

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ORIGINAL: simovitch

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I like the courier idea. I have read your emails you sent me and followed other convos, especially at the iNWC, work is being done to help balance out issues in French superman correct?
Yes, the troop qualities have been adjusted across the board (but mostly the French), which actually makes the game system work more the way it was intended. Leaders take on a more important role, and battles are a little less bloody - not as a result of artificially adjusting firepower values but because you will have a harder time maintaining cohesion at the front line, especially if your chain of command is buggered. No longer will the French see "22 units undisrupted out of 25 units checked..."

The Prussians, Saxons, and Austrians were very good, well disciplined soldiers who more often than not stood toe to toe against the frogs. The disasters at Ulm in 1805 and Jena in 1806 were not the fault of the line troops, but of poor Generalship combined with some other unfortunate circumstances.

Incidentally, The 1805 Ulm Campaign and the 1806 Prussian Campaign are the first featured Modules in the new series of updates.


I am please to hear that Richard and very glad someone is taking the time to do this after all these years. I also concur with your comments on the quality of Allied Troops!! [:)]
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RE: NIR Project updates

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ORIGINAL: Andy Moss

Good to hear unit qualities are lower. I hated to see melee after melee, quite a rare event in reality. And stacks of Q6 skirmishers blasting their way through all comers. Lower quality as you say means leaders become very important in maintaining cohesion. And rotating troops to avoid high fatigue is essential too. This was the philosophy of the New Settings Project of long ago that did a mod of NIR Borodino.
Exciting work. Ulm looks good.


Indeed Andy I agree. [:)]
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