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Command vs. Leadership - Liebchen - 04-18-2011 Can someone explain the real difference between Leaders' command ratings and their leadership ratings? RE: Command vs. Leadership - FM WarB - 04-18-2011 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. RE: Command vs. Leadership - jonnymacbrown - 04-19-2011 "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: RE: Command vs. Leadership - FM WarB - 04-19-2011 Actually, a 6 Command rated leader has a very small chance of failing his Command dice roll. RE: Command vs. Leadership - jonnymacbrown - 04-19-2011 "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: RE: Command vs. Leadership - FM WarB - 04-19-2011 It happens, occaisionally to any 6 Command rated leader. RE: Command vs. Leadership - Liebchen - 04-20-2011 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? RE: Command vs. Leadership - jonnymacbrown - 04-20-2011 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: RE: Command vs. Leadership - FM WarB - 04-21-2011 johnny, I'll be happy to make le tondu a C for Command the next time you are Nappy... RE: Command vs. Leadership - Liebchen - 04-21-2011 Thanks all for your explanations.