Escorts are in my Advance Naps OOB for Eckmuhl. You can find it on Rich H's SDC site. I used an article from EEL (Empires, Eagles and Lions) written by Jean Lochet on the French staffs of the Napoleonic era.
At the Corps level you get ...
État Major
32 Officiers d'Ordonnance (single light cav unit)
16 partie secrete (single light cav unit)
24 gendarmes (single light cav unit)
At the Division level you get ...
État Major
16 Officiers d'Ordonnance (single light cav unit)
12 gendarmes (single light cav unit)
At the Brigade level you get ...
8 Officiers d'Ordonnance (single light cav unit)
The gendarmes (Corps and Divsion levels) can be pooled together to protect the corps' trains.
The Officiers d'Ordonnance are the clerks, etc that make up the staff. They are not ADCs or couriers.
The Partie Secrete are officers used for long range recon.
The units will provide leaders a bit of protection, as leader's will pop out of melees, while by themselves they just get captured. They also give the player a recon element if they so choose to use them that way. They can't really be used in offensive combat, and they won't stand up to fire or melee very long, either.
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I found staff levels for the Austrians as well.
Armeekorps
Generalstab
1 leader
16 Stabsoffiziere (light cavalry unit) - actual staff officers
71 Stabsreiter (light cavalry unit)
230 Stabskompanie (infantry)
The Austrian Army had extra troops designated for the guarding of HQ units: cavalry, and infantry.
At division level you get ...
8 Stabsoffiziere (light cavalry unit) - actual staff officers
At Brigade level there wasn't any, however. [:(]
There is plenty of information available for the other armies as well. If OOB creators would include the various miscellaneous units that accompany an army, then players may be able to use the army more realistically.
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Either the La Battaille system, or From Valmy to Waterloo, or both had very nice time delay mechanisms to replace leaders. The FVTW rules had the replacement leader originate from the next level up the chain of command after the delay, so he still had to ride to where his new command was befor it was back under control.
Colonel (ret) Al Amos
1er Dragoons
AdN
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