Portugal and Holland will both find stone in short supply. Britain, France and Spain need to spare some sites for the colonies. Warsaw, with its cheap but fearsome Cossacks, needs to start building horse farms in large quantities. Before finishing on the economy, when building up your population, spread it our evenly. The two different types of battle in Austerlitz, the mathematical and the simulated, throw up an interesting problem when building up an army, the old problem of quality versus quantity.
Simulated battles are very different.
You might still find yourself up against an army five times your size but it will be very difficult to achieve local superiority of that magnitude on any particular area of the battlefield. Not only will your elite troops be inflicting more damage than their opponents but their higher EF means they'll stay and dish it out to the next lot while the poorer troops leg it as soon as they start to suffer losses. Luckily there are ways to build up an army that can meet all your requirements. Light Infantry Skirmishing Infantry are one of those rare combinations, cheap troops that will still be useful to you when you have to fight simulated battles. Small Brigades There are lots of very good reasons for building brigades with just five battalions instead of the full seven.