1. WTF is Victoria's excuse for a combat strategy since I read from the tvtropes page it likes decentralization while doing human wave tactics
It's based on the tactics and strategy drawn from the original book,
Victoria, by Lind.
Unfortunately, Lind is kind of a moron when it comes to military strategy, because his entire career as a guy yelling at the military and unsuccessfully telling them what to do is based on him having looked at the Vietnam War, drawn the wrong lessons, and... Well, he seems to have concluded that the only
real way to win is by throwing aside all the heavy weapons, armor, and air support which are for
liberal pussies. And to be willing to
do anything and
live off the land (read: loot the shit out of things) as RUGGED MANLY LIGHT INFANTRY, you know, like the heavily exoticized version of the Viet Cong that exist only in his imagination.
Lind then used the book to systematically target all the stuff about the real world military he hated, including the part where it has professional staff and logistics corps.
So yeah, conventional Vick tactics are pretty shit.
Blackwell is gonna have to fix things up.
2 How exactly are the CMC "elite" since most of my quest experience is from embers in the dusk so my idea of an elite unit of fanatics would be something similar to the Black Irons of the embers in the dusk quest ie highly trained and equpped troops who using won't break or run even in the face of impossible odds not bunch of fanatics with only better weapon quality and will break formation or revolt at only the slightest grievence
The Crusaders' division of the CMC are better equipped as noted, and they
really don't break. The only time in recent history that a CMC Crusader division ran into a heavier, better armed force was during the Battle of the Raisin River in the Detroit campaign, and while our side's 'Devil Brigade' slaughtered that CMC unit to a man, not one of them ran away.
They revolt here, but frankly that was
after they were betrayed and targeted by their own allies. They're terrible people, but they're not actually wrong that Blackwell and the new Vick government are their enemies who will destroy them if given a chance... Not least because the Crusaders are fanatical enough about keeping to the old Vick military doctrine or their own variation on it that it would be impossible for Blackwell to adequately reform the military as long as they remain powerful, and the destruction of the main Vick army at our hands makes the Crusaders too powerful to tolerate.
