Lucky wrote:So this begs the question. Is it worth the hit to promote Davout to Army commander?
Yes, Massena's army does not have leaders with a high stragtic rating and are not active as much as you would like. Napoleon with his Great Strageist trait passes stats to his corp commanders very well. Since even commanders with poor stats, {Ney, Murat, Beradott} have a 5 - 5 - 5 rating as long as they are close to Napoleon, I run Davout and Bessres down to Italy and make them part of Massena's Army. They don't get any bonuses from Massena but as part of the same army, the can still MTSGs. And they still have better stats than the Massena's other leaders. I try to keep them close to each other for support until Karl's army is mostly destroyed. You have to keep Massena pretty close to Davout and Bessres or they start taking minuses. Since Massena is still in command of the Army, he still passes bonuses to the other Corp leaders which need them. Once Karl's army is mostly destroyed, I remove Davout and Bessres from Massena's army so they can range further away without taking minuses. They will no longer be able to MTSGs but once Karl's army is gone, there isn't any Austrian Army large enough to give those leaders trouble.
Just my 2 cents.
Napoleon still has Soult and Lannes which have ratings of 5 - 5 - 6 and 5 - 6 - 7 while close to Napoleon so he still has a lot of decent leaders around him.