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I'm coming over to COG:EE from Forge of Freedom, and I might actually do some NATO style counters for all five of the COG:EE nations. [:D]

But one thing I was wondering about was this: Is there anywhere where the detailed battle history of a unit is shown? I liked reading the battle honors of the 1st MN Infantry in FOF; and It would be great if you could click on a ship and it would say somehting like:

"Captured from Turkish Navy at battle of x"
"Renamed xxx"
"Fought at blah bah"

You know, I think that someone has actually made some nato-style chits already. (I don't actually remember) You might check the download area. 

Tough to use for unit history purposes, and from time to time of questionable accuracy is Digby Smith's The Greenhill Napoleonic Wars Data Book .

For French units, there is Smith's Napoleon's Regiments: Battle Histories of the Regiments of the French Army, 1792-1815, though this is similarly afflicted with errors and omissions.

Also for the French is Napoleon's Military Machine, although I'm not sure that this provides a specific battle history for each and every regiment.

For the British, try Wellington's Regiments : The Men and Their Battles 1808-1815.

For the Prussians: The Prussian Army - to 1815, again by Digby Smith, with all the standard cautions.

I'm not aware of similar English-language unit histories of Russian, Austrian or German-state regiments. The Osprey Men-at-Arms series covers regiments of nearly all participants, but is more concerned with uniform details. The amount of unit history for any particular regiment varies from author to author and book to book.

To answer teh question you asked about unit histories.  No, they are not in the game anywhere.

NATO-style counters? Where?

I don't hink that any of them have been done, and the game needs them really badly.