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Do formations HAVE to be in a town or city to receive reinforcements and or replacements?

Thanks

no.

however, the ratio of replacements increases depending on the place / ROE.

Best is PASIVE (green) in a Depot... and being CSA doubles replacement ratio.

With historical/hardened atrrition, methinks that units have to be at a depot to receive replacments, at least when replacing full elements?

(Not sure at all about this)

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Rafiki wrote:With historical/hardened atrrition, methinks that units have to be at a depot to receive replacments, at least when replacing full elements?

(Not sure at all about this)

While I think that was a good way to simulate the replacements system used by most European armies since early XVIII century, it could be less so at least for the Union army during the ACW, for instance
States and localities played a critical role in its recruitment. Typically, a community leader such as a lawyer or politician with the volunteer rank of captain would encourage men to join his company, which when filled would be offered to the state governor. The governor then assigned ten companies to a numbered regiment and appointed a colonel (frequently yet another community leader) to command the regiment. At that point the new regiment would be mustered into federal service and thenceforth paid, fed, and equipped at national expense. the governors tended to see it as a vast opportunity for political patronage, which meant that as regimental numbers diminished through battle casualties and disease. the tendency was to create new regiments rather than make good losses in existing ones. Only Wisconsin maintained an efficient system of replacements to keep veteran units up to strength
http://www.answers.com/topic/union-army-2

aryaman wrote:While I think that was a good way to simulate the replacements system used by most European armies since early XVIII century, it could be less so at least for the Union army during the ACW, for instance
States and localities played a critical role in its recruitment. Typically, a community leader such as a lawyer or politician with the volunteer rank of captain would encourage men to join his company, which when filled would be offered to the state governor. The governor then assigned ten companies to a numbered regiment and appointed a colonel (frequently yet another community leader) to command the regiment. At that point the new regiment would be mustered into federal service and thenceforth paid, fed, and equipped at national expense. the governors tended to see it as a vast opportunity for political patronage, which meant that as regimental numbers diminished through battle casualties and disease. the tendency was to create new regiments rather than make good losses in existing ones. Only Wisconsin maintained an efficient system of replacements to keep veteran units up to strength
http://www.answers.com/topic/union-army-2

I think the Union replacement costs are adjusted to represent this, I dont personally treat the replacement screen purely as centralised replacements I also consider it to represent the resources to treat sick details, to send out regimental recruiting parties, and bring back the awol's and exemptions.

S! EC

So which is it Depots or not?

Leeds wrote:So which is it Depots or not?

As mentioned above, depends on your attrition settings