Morale too important

[GMOEU]

Morale is important in a battle but in EU4 morale of an army (or navy) is too important.

Small size armies beat much larger armies simply because the smaller army has higher morale in EU4.

While it is possible that a smaller-sized army can defeat a much larger size army, in most of the real-life battles the much larger size army will defeat the smaller army, despite the morale difference.

So my suggestion is to keep morale has being important but reduce its influence.

 

[HansBaer]

You fought France recently, didn't you?

 

[ThePatriotOfDreumel]

Your problem has to do with combat width, I assume.

 

[FlameWeaver]

That is quite incorrect, troop count only matters if you manage to flank your opponents (which is simulated in EU4), otherwise your numbers add nothing to the battle and it comes down to morale/discipline/combat ability, which is pretty reasonable. If your opponent had a sizably smaller army you should be able to defeat them even with morale disadvantage, assuming everything else is equal and you have sufficient combat width.

 

[grommile]

"The moral is to the physical as three to one." - Napoleone di Buonaparte