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Armies and corps activation
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:13 pm
by wolflars
If I have an army leader, for example Mac, who has a low strat rating and therefore does not activate often, does this lower the likelihood his corps commanders activate?
I sent Mac to Missouri and ever since, the one corps there rarely activates despite the corps leader's 3-1-1. I made the corps independant and now it seems to activate every turn. Is there a cause effect here or just bad rolls?
Posted: Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:35 pm
by lodilefty
wolflars wrote:If I have an army leader, for example Mac, who has a low strat rating and therefore does not activate often, does this lower the likelihood his corps commanders activate?
I sent Mac to Missouri and ever since, the one corps there rarely activates despite the corps leader's 3-1-1. I made the corps independant and now it seems to activate every turn. Is there a cause effect here or just bad rolls?
Army Leader Bonus:An Army Leader will 'pass down' his strategic ratic to his subordinate Corps Commanders.
An Army Commander with a Strategic Rating of 4 will pass down SR bonuses as follows:
8% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (+2) SR bonus 58% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (+1) SR bonus 33% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (0) SR bonus
An Army Commander with a Strategic Rating of 3 will pass down SR bonuses as follows:
50% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (+1) SR bonus 50% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (0) SR bonus
An Army Commander with a Strategic Rating of 2 will pass down SR bonuses as follows:
66% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (-1) SR bonus 33% of the time the Corps Cdrs receive a (0) SR bonus
This does not include any bonuses to SR that the Army commander may have due to Experience.
From the wiki:
http://ageod.nsen.ch/aacwwiki/Manual:Army_organization#Command_Chain
Posted: Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:16 am
by wolflars
So then in cases where the army commander has a SR of 2, it is folly to assign him any corps since there is a 66% chance of -1 for those corps.
This is a serious motivation not to assign corps to an army where army leader has SR 2. I suppose the tradeoff for an independant corps would be losing any applicable offensive/defensive ratings the army commander might give. Quite a trade off.
Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:50 am
by Le Ricain
wolflars wrote:So then in cases where the army commander has a SR of 2, it is folly to assign him any corps since there is a 66% chance of -1 for those corps.
This is a serious motivation not to assign corps to an army where army leader has SR 2. I suppose the tradeoff for an independant corps would be losing any applicable offensive/defensive ratings the army commander might give. Quite a trade off.
Also, army corps will try to help each other in combat by 'marching to the sound of the guns' if they are in adjoining regions. This is a pretty powerful tool. The only time that I have considered organising the eastern Union army into independent corps has been when playing with the activation lock option in beta5. Every other time I have gone with army corps. Even army commanders such as McDowell and McClellan are not poor enough to offset the strengths of supporting corps. Now that we have vers 1.09, I am thinking of re-organising into army corps.