British brigades?

[rbbane]

Not a question specifically for JMM, as I know he is very busy, unless he particularly fancies answering.
And also not really an immediate question, as the British, (along with the Prussians) won't be included until later.

In the demo, and the main game I expect, in all or most of the French and "Allied" armies, what I think looks like a "brigade" is depicted as the Regiment with it's constituant Battalions.  And I've no doubt that is accurate for those particular nations.

But with the British army, I think I am right in saying, that in nearly every theatre of war the (British) Regiment was represented by a single Battalion.  And a British brigade was made up of two, three, or possibly four "none related" Battalions.

Can anyone speculate if JMM is intending the British brigades to be made up as was historically accurate, and not like the majority of other nations, as "Regimental" groups?

Many thanks and appreciation for any opinions on this matter.

[CBR]

I'd say the main issue would be the size of the army. As soon as you have more than 100 regiments/batteries then we are looking at brigades as the smallest "unit"

I'm not sure if such brigades are going to have same restrictions as regiments because as of now it looks like a regiment can never have more than 2 battalions (300 meters) of frontage.

[Gunner24]

Can anyone speculate if JMM is intending the British brigades to be made up as was historically accurate

I will speculate that they will be, I would be surprised if all the historically correct details for the first release won't also be correct when the Brits arrive.

As an example, from Waterloo, the Brit 3rd Division's 5th Bdg contained the 2/30, 33rd Foot, 2/69 and 2/73 Battalions, total about 2,300 men.  I'm sure that's what we will see when the Brits arrive later, the 5th Bdg, having four Battalions, with 2,300 men total.

[lodi57]

The OoB editor allows to form regiment form 1 to 6 battalions so you can have 4 regiments of 1 battalion each under the command of a brigadier general.

[War Depot David]

"The OoB editor allows to form regiment form 1 to 6 battalions so you can have 4 regiments of 1 battalion each under the command of a brigadier general."

Awesome.  Does this mean we can edit the OOBs to allow for single battalion tactics?

[lodi57]

Awesome.  Does this mean we can edit the OOBs to allow for single battalion tactics?

The basic unit remains the regiment ; the regimental AI manages 1 bat instead of 2 or more, that's all. For a general of brigade, commanding to regiments of 2 bat each or 4 rgt of 1 bat each is always commanding 4 bat. There is no change in tactical-AI and as for regiment of several bat, if you want to manage by yourselves your single bat regiment, you must detached the units from their corps.

[War Depot David]

Understood.  So set up 4 regiments of 1 battalion each and then detach all 4 when ingame?

[LNDavout]

well after the game is ready for sale.. the brits will join up i´m sure

[little soldier]

The brits always show up on time....

[Uxbridge]

Provided it is not snowing

[Darsh]

Perhaps we'll have an expansion with our "best ennemies" before the end of this year. 

[pharaon]

Oui, espérons que les troupes anglaises débarqueront sur le jeu cette année...

[Hoplite42]

Oui, espérons que les troupes anglaises débarqueront sur le jeu cette année...

Nous aurons le temps de nous occuper avec les autres troupes Russes, prussiennes, autrichiennes, etc...   

We will have the time to occupy us with everything the others troops Prussian, Austrian, Russian, etc...