Quote Originally Posted by PuppetMaster
I played some custom battles with Russian troops, and it seems like their infantry are pretty competent, yet no one has mentioned them once. Why is this?
Because playing the campaign as the russians all your provinces that you start with are really poor and low population, this means that it will takes ages to get past peasants/spearmen from your mottle & bailey(YES! many of them arent even wooden castles ) which means that while russia certainly has some capable infantry and foot archers you wont be able to get them for quite some time into the campaign.