FYI: All of these questions are being posed as playing the full campaign as the Union.
1. Replacements: I've had a few large battles and replacements are being used..but the rate they are consumed is confusing. I've had 10 chits replace hundreds of hits without using a single one. I know that each chit is a a random roll to replace a hit but I was under the impression it was around a 10:1 ratio. Am I missing something?
2. How often are replacements issued when not a complete element replacement? I know the manual says the Union has a slower replace rate but..is it a check every turn? Do I always have to put land units in passive to replace men? Corinth is not going to take itself.
3. I've managed to inflict casualties on the computer at about a 3:1 ratio in my favor. Does this actual impact game-play or should I worry more about strategic objectives over unit and army destruction?
4. The Blockaid. I've read the manual. I've read the fantastic sticky. I can't seem to get the blue water blockaid over 20%. I've build dedicated blockaid fleets. I've blockaided ports with brown water fleets. I'm suck... Hapl!
Thank you for all the help so far!
Sometimes you get the blessing of RNGesus, sometimes you don't. The percent chance of a chit being used is based on the percent of health of the element being replaced. At half health its a 50% coin flip. If you are topping off 300 hits worth of barely damaged units, you can get lucky and not consume a single chit, or you could roll that 5% on the first try and get shafted.
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A stack of units with one or more Supply "Pack Train" Units 'pulls' on a nearby Depot (not more than 2 hexes, which from may experience doesn't always work without a rail line or river between stack and Depot), that Depot pulls on another nearby Depot with lots of supply, which in turn pulls on yet another, and so on, and so forth.
