Re: Professionalism and Quality in FT terms (long)

At 08:53 21/01/00 +1000, you wrote:
>I think if any nation should feel unjustly done by its the ESU which
sits
>amongst, or below, the smaller nations - I guess the grit and "I'll
stand
>here until I'm damn well dead" Russkies I think off (OK I play
Napoleonics)
>isn't something that goes with the navy?
>
>Cheers
>
>Beth

Hi Beth,
	Yes perhaps the ESU is a bit hard done by if you take it that
all the
fleet preform at the same level. In my books the ESU will have some
ships/crews that are the are the equal of any but that they make up a
very
small proportion of their fleet. The ESU advantage would be numbers and
this should show in ships costings if a balanced cost system can be
thought
up. Historically the Russian/Soviet and Chinese, at least for the last
300
years, Navies have never really preformed, or hung about when things go
bad, no NKVD/KGB/CSO (Chinese Speakers Only) battilons behind them.
	As one Naploenic player to another, yes Russian infantry is
great for
saving Austrian butts (namely mine).

Wilko.