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Can someone explain the real difference between Leaders' command ratings and their leadership ratings?

Command Rating, the first number in this oob example, is the number used for the command test when you are trying to undisorder a unit. In game it is affected by dice rolls in the chain of command.

Leadership rating is a Leader's ability to help rally a routed unit. If this number is higher than the unit's base morale it is used, otherwise +1.

L 3 4 3 GD Tharreau: For this division leader 3 is his unmodified command rating and 4 is his leadership rating.

"Leadership rating is a Leader's ability to help rally a routed unit. If this number is higher than the unit's base morale it is used, otherwise +1."

In other words, if you have Napoleon & Ney @ Waterloo (both A leadership) those fellows rally routed units very well if you stack them with the routed units. But British command structure is a bit better with Wellington an A command as opposed to Napoleon C. That means Wellington is always going to pass on a positive modifier to help units rally from disorder to good order while with Napoleon it is dicey. jonny :rolleyes:

Actually, a 6 Command rated leader has a very small chance of failing his Command dice roll.

"Actually, a 6 Command rated leader has a very small chance of failing his Command dice roll."

Correct: If Wellington's batsman is late with Tea, then His Grace would fail his command test. :( :eek1:

It happens, occaisionally to any 6 Command rated leader.

I am unclear on the game distinction between regaining order and rallying. Why do they use two different ratings? Don't they both entail leaders asserting their leadership over wavering troops?

Rallying is the situation where the troops broke and ran; routed units. Then a commander like Napoleon rides over with an A leadership, joins them (by stacking with them) and says "Gentlemen pull yourselves together" and they rally from routed to disordered. That's leadership.

The command rating, implies the chain of command, where a unit is disordered, or without orders, and they then receive orders and and execute command decisions and move from disordered to full order. So Napoleon is a C for this, as we all know he wasn't feeling too well on June 18, 1815 and spend a lot of time at the windmill. jonny :smoke:

johnny,

I'll be happy to make le tondu a C for Command the next time you are Nappy...

Thanks all for your explanations.