SOW: Average Unit/Ship Quality

The following table shows the average quality of brigades and ships for the NWOL powers. All German states have the same average unit quality; all Italian states have the same. Note that these are averages only. Individual units and ships may have substantially higher or lower quality. Also, with good luck the units raised might have higher quality than average, with bad luck they might have lower, and this is especially true in the smaller countries which don't raise many units and are therefore more subject to a few bad rolls of the dice.
Basic sources for these ratings are _Swords Around the Throne_ by John Elting and _The Campaigns of Napoleon_ by David Chandler, though other sources have also been used.
 
 

IN,LI
HC,MC LC Artillery Ships Frigates Militia
France Very Good Good Good Good Average Good Good
Britain Very Good Fair Average Good Very Good Very Good Good
Prussia Average Average Average Average Poor Fair Very Good
Austria Good Very Good Good
Average Poor Poor
Fair
Russia Fair Average Good Very Good
Fair Average Fair
Spain Poor Poor Fair Fair Fair Fair Average
Holland Fair Fair Average
Fair Good Good Fair
Naples Poor Poor Fair Poor Fair Fair Average
Portugal Fair Poor Fair Fair Average
Average Fair
Denmark Average Fair Average Fair Average Average Average
Sweden Good Average Average
Good Good Good Average
Germany Average Good Average Average Poor Fair Fair
Italy Average Fair Fair Average Fair Average Fair

Last updated August 24 2006