@Ockhamsbarber2392

1 year ago

Much of Davout's achievements, like Lannes and Ney, were from him serving under Napoleon, following Napoleon's grand orders, much of the preparation and organization made by Napoleon's staff. Davout possibly can manage himself independently, however instances of these are few and far between (an example being him in the Hamburg Campaign, but he was pretty much left to sit around in Hamburg by Bennisgen)

Suchet and Saint Cyr, if they had more opportunities can possibly give Wellington a run for his money, Saint-Cyr I placed the difficulty quite high as whenever he was given independent commands, he was quite exceptional and skilled to the point that even Napoleon was in impressed.

Lannes and Ney, both brave marshals, both though, especially the latter are really only good at being divisional commanders or subordinates.

Soult, is gonna be quite close between him and Wellington, just not too sure which way it will go, will have to read up about him more.

Wellington did defeat Massena during the 1810-11 Portughese campaign, however, Massena was far past his prime and was given a near-impossible task to assault Wellington's defensive lines in portugal, which was swarming with guerilla fighters, along with the scorched earth tactics that left the countryside quite bare. Massena almost did give Wellington a bloody nose at Fuentes because he tried to exploit Wellington's weak right flank, but Bessieries, commander of the Imperial cavalry was nowhere to be seen at the battlefield and the cavalry refused to charge in. The Battle of Bussaco was also tactically handled by Jean Reynier and Michel Ney, as Massena was too ill to even ride a horse.

(Editing also fell off at the end because I was getting pretty fatigued at night)

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