Question regarding promotions...

[Revolutionarythought]

Guys,

I'm well into my first play through of the campaign and I've got a quick question about promotions.

How do they work? I've got a large number of generals that are promotable, yet the promotion icon is greyed out. The tool tip suggests that the general should be in a different stack for a promotion, however moving the generals in question to different stacks doesn't help me at all.

Any advice on this (I'm running 1.09 these days).


-Scott

[Jabberwock]

"promotable: yes" - means that this general can eventually be promoted under the right circumstances (there is a model in the game for this general at a higher rank). You have to win battles with a particular general to actually enable his promotion.

[Walloc]

Hi Scott,



Speculating a bit here since im not all clear on what exactly ur problem is. Could u be more specific?


Overall there are 3 rules about promoting.

1. General has to be promotable at all. Look at his details and it says promototable. Yes or no. This indicates only if 1 of the the below requirements is met whether he can be promoted or not. Even if meeting the below requirements.
2. Requirement 1. A general has risen 4 or more in seniorty, from original figur. If so and above is yes, he can be promoted.
3. Requirement 2. A general has senority 1 or 2. If so and above in 1 is yes, he can be promoted.


Now thats the quirks of the rules, now to quirks of interface.

Lets say u have a divisional cdr in a corps that is promotable. U have to remove him from the corps so he is an indepedant before u can promote him, cuz icon on any force is only showing the status of the commander of that particular force.

If u have a corps cdr promotable it might by looking at icons that his divisional cdrs are promotable. It actually isnt so. Cuz and reason u need to remove divisional cdr above is that the icon counts for the cdr only. In this case the corps leader. So if a corps cdr is promotable it looks, but only looks like his divisional cdrs are too.(by the highlight)
To find out if they infact are promotable. Look a their details and see if they meet above requirements. If so remove from him form the corps and his icon should be highlighted and u can promote.

Hope it helps, else ask again.

Rasmus

[Jabberwock]

If you look in the top two tabs of the roster, any leader whose name is shown in red is actually promotable on the current turn.