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Question - Absorbing Replacements

Mon Mar 13, 2017 2:52 am

The manual states page 158
21.1.2 ABSORBING REPLACEMENTS
Replacement chits are used in two (2) ways:
• absorbed into multiple elements that have each lost one or
more strength points,
• used to create entire battalion-sized elements that can be
merged into Brigade Units that have lost an entire element.



I think i understand how the replacements are absorbed as I found the below information on one of the forums here but still have one question (which i have at the end).

A replacement chit is an element of that unit type. Unfortunately not every type of element contains the same number of hits. Here is a list:

infantry, militia and cavalry: 20 hits per replacement chit
light infantry: 15 hits per replacement chit
tanks, artillery, armoured cars : 8 hits per replacement chit
supply trains: 6 hits per replacement chit
engineers: 4 hits per replacement chit
aircraft: 12 hits per replacement chit

Reinforcement chits get applied automatically. There are two important limitations though:
1. The unit must be in a region with a town, city or depot (depots speed the replacement process up considerably).
2. The unit may not move during the turn.



Question:
I understand how a unit that has some hits missing from its elements get replaced; however, taking what the manual states & that info from another post, I wanted to make sure I understood how a completely destroyed element gets replaced.

In other words, if an Unit has 4 elements with 3 of them taking hvy losses, but it has also completely lost its 4th element, I understand how the 1st, 2nd, & 3rd elements get their replacement.
1st Element has only 2 Str left
2nd Element has only 4 Str left
3rd Element has only 3 Str left
4th Element is completely dead/has no Str

However, I wanted to make sure that the ONLY way to replace that "dead/lost" 4th element is to merge another unit with the same type of element that was lost?

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Re: Question - Absorbing Replacements

Mon Mar 13, 2017 9:13 am

Hi!

No, thats a way to do it, but the standard way to recover such lost elements is through replacements. A replacement chit will be used up and the unit will recover the missing element.
A unit can only recover a full missing element per turn. So if the unit is missing more than one it will take several turns.

A important note: if you play with the hardened attrition optional rule, full missing elements will only be recovered when the unit is on a region with a friendly depot.

Espana 36 unit are mostly single element units, so if it element is destroyed the unit will be gone for good and you will have to recruit a new unit.
So what I explained above only applies to arty units, some regular Republican units and little more.
In other AGEOD games multi element units are very common.

Regards!

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Re: Question - Absorbing Replacements

Tue Mar 14, 2017 5:14 pm

ty for clarification

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