French Heavy Cavalry and Russian Army

[Jagger2013]

I am into my first long campaign playing as the Austrians. I believe it is now August 1757. The French Army has large numbers of single element heavy cavalry regiments. I considered merging the single element heavy cavalry to produce two or three or four element cavalry regiments. I would rather have a smaller number of regiments with greater surviveability than large numbers of weak regiments. But first, I decided to see if they would receive reinforcement elements to build up the regiments. I placed all of them in passive mode into cities with depots and waited for a couple turns. I also purchased heavy cavalry replacement chits. So far, none have received reinforcment elements to increase their size. Am I wasting my time waiting and should go ahead and merge the regiments?

Second, a large Russian army showed up in Wierzbolow province. The army is not locked but I can't move the army out of the province. What is going on?

[loki100]

Russians - see the fix suggested in this thread - http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?29815-Problem-moving-Russians

that will free them to move on Koenigsberg, thereafter you need to use the scouting decision to open the road across Poland.

French, you're stuck. The French OOB is pretty inefficient and these 1 regiment 'brigades' are part of that. Expensive to command and easy to lose. One of the reasons why France's performance, in Europe, in the Seven Years War was mostly undistinguished

[Ebbingford]

You can let them take the second element as a reinforcement before sending them off to fight. Thats what I normally do with them, put them in passive posture when you get any heavy replacements, each time you should end up with a couple more that are more durable in a fight.

[Jagger2013]

Thanks all!

The events change took care of the frozen Russian army problem. I also merged French heavy cavalry regiments making them 2 element regiments. And I will try to get some replacements into some of the hvy cavalry.