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La Chanson de la Victoire (The Song of Victory): La Petite Arpenteuse (Non, SV, you are a General of France in the Napoleonic War!)
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Magoose
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Because of the Current situation in Europe... No you do not know what the hell is going on in india.
But I will say this...
Damn... I was not expecting "THAT" To happen.
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I am really against that. Berthier is The prize out of all the additional officers we can get, as far as I am concerned. The man was a genius organizer. He was not available as our Chief of Staff, but he might be the better choice in a future reorganisation.
If you really want Hoche, I would suggest to skip Dumas, much as I hate that option (and I would keep voting for the original plan, as I really want to save him). I believe we should keep Kleber.
So whait we can take them all?
Well he and carnot came up whith it to gather really, and hooch was the first one to implement.
Yep, quite the outstanding(ly unluck) career. He dosnt seem to me to have been the type to have tried to fight off napoleon (he was extremely dissatisfied whith the Directory by the end of his life) much more likely to have become one his marshals actually.
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I've decided to not swap Berthier out anymore, if we're doing this. Severin will just have to deal.
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Except that when he organized Napoleon's Grand Armee, he had already had nearly a decade of experience of being Napoleon's Chief of Staff. And while he is just competent as a field commander, we also are in need of some field commanders that know what the hell they are doing.
This isn't a battle in Europe, this is in Egypt and the Mediteranian.
Meh, they are all very competent officers. there are no wrong answers.
no you would only be able to take three.
You just can promote all the officers you have currently.
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I'd definitely be more for keeping Hoche in this situation. Berthier was in Egypt for the actual campaign and it still ended up a disaster, so let's try and shake things up, see what the big what-if of the revolution can offer.
There's actually a funny story about Berthier setting up a literal shrine for his wife in Egypt and Napoleon taking pleasure in riling the man up by shuffling around in it.
There's actually a funny story about Berthier setting up a literal shrine for his wife in Egypt and Napoleon taking pleasure in riling the man up by shuffling around in it.
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Magoose
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Hey if I were in a foreign desert thousands of miles away from my home, I'd set up a shrine for my wife too.
Napoleon was just being a jackass at that point and needed something to do and Berthier just happened to earn his ire.
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Will we get an option to make a shrine to our husbando Napoleon??
Magoose
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I mean... do you want to?
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We'll have to see if Egypt drives us insane or not!
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I mean, as much as this quest paints this as some idiot's venture, which it was, to be fair, it was also other things. One of them being a scientific expedition, with Napoleon bringing in a lot of scientists to accompany it, the Rosetta stone, all that stuff. Problem was that as much fun as the scientists were having, no one else was happy as the cultures were so damn different, alongside the general fact of French chauvinism, which we will probably still have no matter the people we bring.
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Time to pull a British and loot invaluable cultural artifacts, baby!
Magoose
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Its not like we're going to be... you know, suffering from the consequences of our actions and making enemies of entire culture groups by profiting off the chaos by taking all the cultural artifacts they have...
Right... Right?
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Nappy was the pioneer in that type of thing, damn guy looted Italy for all it was worth to keep the French economy afloat.
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Considering that the man is at 20 wealth (in game stat) and Brian is at 15 (he isn't taking part in the loot but gets paid)
Yeah. We need to upgrade France's wealth by 1.
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What are Brian's stats now? How are his logistical skills progressing?
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I think I updated the front page not too long ago. and it will be updated again at the end of the year or the end of the Italian campaign, whichever comes first.
He's actually not Berthier when it comes to logistical or organizing... but he's competent at it, and a far better field commander than Berthier ever was, so he can play organizer and commander in equal mesure.
Logistics are 21, Engineering is 23, Administration is 16
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Napoleon was definitely not the pioneer on that (though he obviously did it). Other republican generals did it beforehands.
And it was used by other countries before and after (up to and including WW2)
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In fact looting and pillaging wouldn't really stop unless we put a stop to it.
or take part in it (which you might need to to stay alive.)
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Hell, until the time of professional armies, rights to looting was the only method how the soldiers got paid/fed.