Russian Units Explained Empire Total War ETW Guide 

should they have been given larger unit sizes light Austria's?

@@FaramirsRangers perhaps. Austria wasn't that heavy in population. Russia didn't have overwhelmingly large field armies like later on. Game play wise it might be a good buff for them.

​@@FieldMarshalYTthis would make them op

Yes agree they needed better something although I edited out the Siemenovski guards somehow. Sucks I did that lol

Russia's entire thing is good melee, anyways

Quantity over quality is not about XVIII century Russia because its population was 13 million in 1724. For example, in Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth it was around 12 million, in France around 22 million and around 30 million in Ottoman Empire

Yeah Marathas and Mughal musket units have too good stats historically speaking, however despite Russians have seemingly worse stats they're still better in the game. Why? Cause Russians, like other European factions get fire by rank and platoon fire drills, Marathas can only ever fire with the first line of their line infantry.

True they can be used to clear the walls on siege battles. I actually enjoy playing Russia for the difficulty of their army

This is the same game where anything armed with a bow shoots as fast as a musketeer, you're just gonna let that one slide I am afraid.

It is a glitch that happens sometimes. Sometimes you will get an artillery with large numbers too. Nice glitch happens randomly

@@FaramirsRangers It also happens when you autoresolve battles and replenish immediately. I don't know how it works exactly, but this is the circumstance in which it happened.

This is a pretty big myth. Many times the Russians had equalnumbers or even were outnumbered in the 1700s. This kept especially true in Napoleons invasion of Russia in 1812. Musket issues forced Russian doctrine to rely on the Bayonet.

Land Phil yeah I missed the Siemenovski guards. I don't know how I missed it but I did. Field Marshal that is some good facts. I guess we are used to the later years when their population rose. Seems like they should have at least got better grenadiers

@@FaramirsRangers that’s where that myth is strongest, from the German generals’ memoirs, in which the blames hitler and “Russian hordes” for all of their mistakes, when in reality they were outnumbering Russia on many occasions, especially in the beginning of the war

This myth is even enforced by Holywood Cold War anti Soviet agitation. As for example Russia during Catherine the Great and her generation of generals like Suvorov Rymntitski, Rmunyansev Zadunaisky etc. Suvorov was outnumbered by Ottomans 10:1 and he still won major victories over them. The same for two Russo-Polish wars Suvorov won. By the way during Elizaveta Petrovna's campaing on Prussia Russian infantry was on pair with Prussia. Russia just left Russo-Austrian alliance after Peter III came to power. Google Rumyanstev's battle of Kagul. No European power could achieve such major victory against Ottomans. (Ottomans were armed with Prussian muskets.)

@@c32amgftw In WW2 Germany at no point outnumbered the Soviets, stop making things up. Germans captured millions of Soviet troops at the very start of the Operation Barbarossa, and even then Soviets outnumbered them. Russian doctrine heavily relied on numbers AND scorched earth and guerilla tactics when forced on defensive. During Napoleon's invasion, that was one of the few times Russians were actually outnumbered vastly by the invader. Both Swedes and Germans were heavily outnumbered by the Russians during their invasions.

Ha I never knew that. Yeah this is crazy Dave stuff here. What can I say other than I may be losing it

absolutely Prussia will be coming soon. I will also be covering all the other nations as well. :)

which is funny, because streltsy were musketeers in service of Russian Tsars, even their name translates to "shooters". and you can also see gunpowder pouches on their uniform in game.

It is a fun campaign. Not many play it much because it can be a challenge.

I do the opposite

@@FaramirsRangers i did it as my first campaign i took istanbul as the first major thing then all of the northern lights going a little further than poland and had taken half of india with one region in america

Came to the comments to say this 😂

Yes it is so true. I like the ruthlessness of their army

I know I had them in I think I messed up and edited them out while doing my edit. bad mistake.

@@Deathelement53 If you would like to donate $200 I’ll be happy to redo the video and work on not stuttering

@FaramirsRangers I'm talking about the gameplay in the background being low fps and stuttering. I hope you didn't think I meant you're voiceover as I have no issue with that