Thu Dec 03, 2015 2:33 pm
Regarding other forces, you can only command your own nation's forces and not those of your coalition, but let me clarify further. When building reinforcements, you are given certain multi-national unit types which can be built, such as French-Italian, French-Corsican, and eventually French-Polish.
You may request both expeditionary forces and expeditionary fleets from your allies and "if" such forces are granted, then you are given control of them. For instance, requesting a force from Bavaria may yield you control of one of their Divisions, which you can them organize into one of your army corps, or perhaps control individually for something like garrison duty.
Certain leaders have enhanced skills as a multi-national commander, and others have a skill that enhances their command of German or Italian units.
"Here I am sitting at a comfortable table loaded heavily with books, with one eye on my typewriter and the other on Licorice the cat, who has a great fondness for carbon paper, and I am telling you that the Emperor Napoleon was a most contemptible person. But should I happen to look out the window, down upon Seventh Avenue, and should the endless procession of trucks and carts come to a sudden halt, and should I hear the sound of heavy drums and see the little man on his white horse, in his old and much-worn green uniform, then I don't know, but I am afraid that I would leave my books and the kitten and my home and everything else to follow him wherever he cared to lead. My own grandfather did this, and Heaven knows he was not born to be a hero."
- Hendrik Willem van Loon