How exactly is this computed?
I can see that Murat (3 stars) together with his subordinate commanders (seven 1 star) have way more than enough CPs to reach the stated
unmodified maximum of twelve (12) CPs per Force
But where do the extra 10 CPs (12+10 = 22) come from?
Here are the stated CP modifiers beyond force commander factors:
The twelve (12) CP per Force limitation may be raised by the following cumulative modifiers:
* +2 CPs: if a Signal support unit is present in the Force,
* +1 CP: if a Reconnaissance support unit is present in the Force,
* + (Variable) CPs: Leader Special Abilities
* (Strategic Rating of parent Army commander + [−2]) CPs: if Corps is within Army HQ Leader’s Command Radius
Among Murat and his subordinate commanders, there appear to be no Special Abilities that would up the force CPs beyond the 12 CP maximum. (No special units in the stack either.)
Apparently, the 10 extra CPs are the beneficent effects of this force being a component corps of Napoleon's Grande Armee computed as:
- 4 CPs from Napoleon's Strategic Rating (6 - 2 = 4) for being within Napoleon's two-region Command Radius as perThe Command Radius of an Army commander with a Strategic Rating of 6 or greater is limited to the region in which the Army HQ is located and up to two (2) regions away.
- 6 CPs from Napoleon's Great Strategist Special Ability (ability level 3):If the Commander in Chief in the Theater, provides +3 Command Points and an additional +1 per ability level, to his stack and all subordinate corps.
But try this experiment:
- Turn off the AI.
- Load the 1805 Austerlitz scenario.
- Note that Murat's force has 22 Maximum Command.
- Move Murat's force to the same region as Napoleon (Strasbourg). Note that the force Maximum Command is still 22.
- Move Murat's force south to Neuchatel, four regions removed from Strasbourg, and two regions beyond Napoleon's supposed Command Radius. Note that the Maximum Command is still 22.
- Press the 6 key. Napoleon's theater is the light blue area around Strasbourg, in southeast France. Neuchatel is in the vast orange (pink?) colored theater to the east, outside of Napoleon's theater. As before, Maximum Command remains at 22.
- Keep moving Murat's force further and further south and east, in fact all the way down to Ragusa, about as far away as Murat can possibly move in this scenario. At Ragusa, the Murat force is (a) well outside of Napoleon's Command Radius, (b) four theaters removed from Napoleon's Strasbourg theater, and (c) many regions beyond the limit of Napoleon's Attachment Radius (with Napoleon selected, press the shift key), hence the Out of Command Penalty (halving CPs) should apply. Still, the Murat force's Maximum Command is 22!
(I tried similar experiments with other forces, for example moving Corps Gouvion, attached to Massena's Armee d'Italie, to the east and south, as far away as Ragusa. Here, too, the Gouvion force's Maximum Command of 14 remained unchanged no matter how far away it moved, and no matter how far outside it was of Massena's Command Radius, Attachment Radius, and theater.)
What is going on here? What am I missing?
Or--at least in terms of region, theater, distance, and Command & Attachment Radii--are Maximum Command and the computation of CPs broken?
When it works, if it works, I think all of this region and theater distance stuff is neat, because it adds several interesting strategic wrinkles (don't move your forces too far away from the army commander, because you might lose command control and CPs). But, alas, it doesn't seem to work. If I'm not mistaken, or worse.
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Tested using NCP 1.05a, BTW.
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