Quote Originally Posted by mmk View Post
In my opinion the militia/town guards should have their battle values decreased.
Or much, much, much poorer morale. The problem I see with them is that my fire by rank Line Infantry mash them horribly up to a certain point, once their unit reaches a small enough size they take fewer and fewer casualties to every salvo while still managing to inflict casualties on my unit.

Through sheer, tenacious attrition I've regularly watched militia units take out half a Line Infantry unit, one on one, up to the point 80% of the militiamen are dead......then five minutes later they've rallied and come back!

Two things for me then:

1) Militia units need poorer morale. The legendary 'chain rout' should be highly applicable to militia, they should not stay on the field when they see everyone else running as well, whereas trained soldiery should feel little shock in seeing militia run.

2) All units should recieve a more significant morale hit for casualties. You do not watch half the men you started a fight with get blown away without starting to seriously question your will to keep fighting. 50% of the numbers you started with dying is a good time to apply a more severe casualty based morale shock.