7th Grenadiers @ Virton

[Volcano Man]

If I am not mistaken, the French 4th CA *is* in Virton on the 22nd in F14. I recall reading about the Virton area extensively and am intimately familiar with it; the French were attacking north of Virton in the morning and as the notes say, the French attack is sped up by about one turn - the notes explain why. Read _The Battle of the Frontiers: Ardennes 1914_ (Zuber) if you want to read about the battle. The book is a bit pro-German but nevertheless, it is a great book with a lot of new data that was previously unknown. You just have to read it for the timelines and the historical actions and take the evaluations on German and French forces with a pound of salt.

As for GR.7, no, I didn't feel like they warranted being rated as B. The justification of rating a German infantry regiment as B is only reserved for the regiments that were "guard" regiments of a one of the Germanic states. AFAICR, GR.7 was not the Hesse Leib Garde, they were formerly the Konigsgrenadier Regiment 7 in the Franco Prussian War, which was something special then, but in WW1 they were just an ordinary infantry regiment as far as I know. They were actually a Prussian regiment (Westpreußisches), and all the Prussian guards units were, at the time of WW1, in the guard divisions.

The only exception to my rule on rating units as B, is with the Pomeranian corps (AK.I & II) because they were known to be the elite of all line infantry division, and the other exception is if a specific regiment was known to be very effective because of some decentralized based unique tactics. An example of this would be the regiment Rommel was in at the start of the war which utilized jaeger like tactics and were known to be very effective at it. It was recently brought to my attention that I overlooked this so I will fix that in the next update (IR.124). Other than that, it is up to interpretation but it does follow some form of logic. ;)