I accepted call from my allied Muscovy to entered war against my rival France. Our coalition (Me Czech, Spain, Muscowy and all our colonies) is much stronger than theirs (Novgorod,France, Lotrine). I have much more soldiers (120000 vs 80000) in the battle, we both have level 2 commanders and level 16 military tech, second line almost filled with cannons, yet I always loose. They attack me over the river. … yet I always loose.
I already tried to load and replay that huge battle in different situations (moving my army to different provinces) … but result is always the same.
Does is depend if I have one big stack, or several smaller (~20000 each) which enter the battle independently? I have them in provinces around Prague to reduce attrition.
Please explain me what I do wrong.
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Best Answer
The French have a general with 5 pips in Fire, and ~16k more cannons than you. That's a heck of a lot of damage from those cannons. Add on to this the fact that they have 1.5 better army morale than you, and a slight advantage in cavalry numbers, and you can start to see why the balance is in their favour.
Their whole back line is cannon, whereas yours is interspersed with infantry. This is a telling factor. You need a better balance of cannon to infantry if you are going to match up against an army like the one France has here. You want to aim for the same situation as them where you can fill out the whole back line with cannon.
As you can see, neither of the sides took very big losses to their cannon (France didn't lose any in fact!), but your infantry got torn to shreds. That right there is the French firepower at work, sat behind soldiers with superior morale so that they are nigh-on invincible against your lower firepower and less elite troops.