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Hi all, I'm playing the April 61 cam as the USA, and I'm around mid way thru 1863 and I have all these unused Brigadiers. more brig than division and corps. I seemed to spend more time shipping these guys all over the place to unclutter the area around Washington than anything else. There seems to be an excessive amount of them, how do the rest of u guys handle the excessive number of brigadiers?

I'm nowhere near 1864 (at about Nov 1861), but I just combine them wherever I'm facing command penalties.

Crimguy wrote:I'm nowhere near 1864 (at about Nov 1861), but I just combine them wherever I'm facing command penalties.

oops I just read your reply I should have said 1863

Hi
I have a (slightly) related question...
I think on one of the last patches (I think) was introduced the possibility of embedding leaders with brigades.
Now… what is its use???
Does it have some advantage on combat modifiers, CP…?
Is the same having a stack with a leader and a brigade that a stack with just that brigade with the leader embedded?

And… if you have a surplus of leaders like goodwood report… is embedding them the solution??
Anyhow, I suppose many of the historical leaders (at least the good ones) that comes embedded with a brigade should be separated and used as division and corps commanders, isn’t it?
Thanks!!

You get additional leaders because the new division rule asks for a leader for each division. At first, you will think you have too much leaders, but soon you will see this is not the case!

Embedding a leader into a brigade provides the same benefit as doing that for in a division: the leader give a boost in combat efficiency in addition to the stats of the corps (or indep stack) commander.

Play some PBEM, and you will find you don't have "enough" leaders..........

The only thing I regret about the added leaders is that these include 2* generals who can rapidly form new corps and not just divisions. Though the ai seems to profit from this nicely (in my current game I was suddenly facing 4-5 reasonably strong Union Corps around Washington DC in November 1861, imagine how fast I recrossed the Potomac...).

I have to agree with Caranorn : except some leaders at the beginning of the game for the Union, and with the exception of 3* generals, in the 1861 Campaigns all leader should appear as 1* when they reached that grade. Give high pol and seniority value depending on their political clout, etc... but let the game flow decide for who gets promoted...

Don't forget that the vast majority of players are solo players, so we must tweak a bit reality and propose solutions that can help the AI. The best thing would be to have a PBEM only version of the Grand Campaign.

denisonh wrote:Play some PBEM, and you will find you don't have "enough" leaders..........

... Not enough troops as well in that case leure:

Probably, or have the AI load a specific scenario and event setup.

How do I "embed" a leader with a brigade? Does it just mean to put it in the same stack without forming a division?

Also, does putting a leader in the same stack give the rest of the stack the exact same benefits as a leader would provide in a division?

I'm at the very beginning of the grand campaign, playing as the Union. Will it help to send my leaders to places like Harpers Ferry and St. Louis to stack with the garrisons there, even if I can't form divisions yet?

To merge a leader in a unit (brigade), just select both and hit the (+) button (second tab).

The benefit is that a leader embedded in a unit give more combat bonus when this unit fight. Division has another benefit, the command cost remains at 4 whatever what you put in.

If you have some excess leaders, you can add some in stacks with militia, they will give some slight combat bonus (the 3-1-1 sort I suppose?) and with some chance can gain an experience point or two, which can't be bad!

About embedding leaders on brigades...
It does not have any negative side??
Can this leader function also as a stack commander while embedded??
If so, for any leader not on command of an army, corps o division, its better to always embed them with some brigade/regiment??

For example:
its better a stack of two brigades, one of them with a leader embedded than the same stack with the leader and the two brigades separated, isn't it?


Cheers!