Well, I went back and tried that last scenario again after the patch was applied. The first thing I noticed was that after setting my army I had about 550 extra in currency left, so they must have reduced the prices of units slightly over all. Hopefully that will lessen some of the economic challenges brought on by the last patch a bit. Personally I think they over did the cost increases the last time.

Anyway, the battle played out quite differently.

First of all, the mortars did not easily take out the enemy artillery like before even though several rounds appeared to have hit with in a few feet. This must have to do with the increase in hit points for the artillery train mentioned in the patch data.

Next. the enemy did not stall but spent a short while getting in battle formation and then steadily marched across the battlefield to my lines. Still, I could tell they appeared to be moving a bit slower, which actually looked more realistic.

Also, the light infantry of the enemy deployed differently. Before they always went into the spread out mode where they would constantly appear and disappear. This time they simply stayed in close formation and then oddly planted stakes at strange angles on the battlefield when they got in within shooting range of my lines.

Of course a lot more troops reached my lines for volley exchanges. Also a few of the cavalry charged one of my exposed direct fire artillery units, but the first got decimated by canister and small arms fire. The second unit that charged managed to run off the horses and limbers before it lost it steam, but most of my gunners survived to be able to re-man the guns.

I also had to go into mêlée with the remnants of the infantry and concentrate my mortar fire on the two opposing artillery units that managed to set up in range of my lines. All in all it was a tougher battle, but I still won---only this time I lost 267 men to the enemy's 1100. Also this time my infantry got most of the credit in the stats report although I think once again some of the artillery did not get credit for its contribution.

When one thinks about it this battle may have played out more realistically, but I am sure going to miss my previous uber-artillery scores.

Cheers