New player questions

[prince_blucher]

Hello,

I'm new to the game and I'm trying to create an Army. Per the manual I select a 2 or 3 star general and accompanying units (the B.E.F.), in range of GHQ (e.g. "British Army"), and select the "create army" special order. However, when I do this I can see no such special order type in the menu. Am I doing something wrong?

Also, should I be routinely creating army corps from new leaders and newly recruited units/divisions/brigades?

Thanks

[Durk]

I think what you are missing is the next step in forming the Army. If you have selected form army, then holding down the ctrl key, click on the units you want in the army including the leader. You should see a plus sign indicating this units can be added. If you select too many units the plus sign fades out.
If the above makes no sense. Please ask in a new way.

You should be creating new army corps as new units are built as this makes your new infantry, cavalry and artillery more effective.

[prince_blucher]

Well I think the "create army" special order is labelled "create HQ" in game, which was rather confusing. Anyway it's done now, so thank you for taking the time to reply. I had some further questions in my first Western Entente play-through however:

1. How many armies can I attach to a GHQ (is the maximum 4?)
2. There are German ships in the "Atlantic Shipping" box, so I send a fleet into this box and they sit in the top left hand corner and nothing appears to happen. Is this correct?
3. How do I send an English fleet back into port? I transferred Kitchenor's stack to Calais and now I can't dock the UK fleet back into Southampton or Portsmouth.

Probably more questions to follow, but thanks again.

[CFF]

1- With time u will be able to promote 2 star generals to 3 star and build more armys i have 8, or 9 armys only with French GHQ
2- Yes its correct, that shows those ships are in that area, the ocean is big, so takes time to ships find and fight each other, like real life i think.
3- i think the problem is that when u move the fleet to Calais u release the fleet stack over the harbor ,so ur fleet merged with the mine sweeper, the mine sweeper cant go in the ocean, so ur fleet is stucked, remove the mine sweeper from the fleet and u will be able to send it back, next time try to release the stack in the province ,not in the harbor so it wont merge with the ships in there.

hope i helped, and sorry my bad english lol.

[prince_blucher]

Thank you CFF, yes you really helped me.

Another question: how can I change the music, current music is so awful that I switched it off...but I have plenty of .wav files as alternative music. How can I mod the music?

Thanks

[HunterICX]

I would simply suggest to use a application like Winamp or Windows Media player and create a playlist and run it with shuffle&repeat in the background whilst playing.