Cost of army commander appointment

[Heldenkaiser]

This message confuses me a bit ... can someone help?



Should the last sentence not rather read "The cost will be paid if the army remains without a commander ..." ?

Otherwise you would always pay the cost, because appointing someone to an army command always means that in the end one commander has no army.

[Heldenkaiser]

Or in the actual case: If I replace McDowell (seniority 9) with McClellan (seniority 4) as commander of the Army of the Potomac and give McClellan's corps to McDowell, do I pay the cost or not? The second sentence seems to imply I don't (I have appointed a commander with a better seniority) but the last seems to imply I do (McDowell remains without an army command). Which one is it?

Thanks!

[arsan]

Or in the actual case: If I replace McDowell (seniority 9) with McClellan (seniority 4) as commander of the Army of the Potomac and give McClellan's corps to McDowell, do I pay the cost or not? The second sentence seems to imply I don't (I have appointed a commander with a better seniority) but the last seems to imply I do (McDowell remains without an army command). Which one is it?

Thanks!

Hi
No that will have no political cost. It will in the opposite case.

You only pay the moral/victory points cost if you change a bigger seniority army commander for one with lesser seniority.
But there is an exception: if you give another Army command to the just demoted higher seniority general that same turn, you will not pay the penalty.

To me the tooltip seems to be OK but i'm not a native English speaker so...
Regrads!

[Heldenkaiser]

Thank you, Arsan. So, firing an army commander (and leaving him without an army command) is completely acceptable and without political cost, as long as the successor is of higher seniority? Is that the gist of it?

[arsan]

Thank you, Arsan. So, firing an army commander (and leaving him without an army command) is completely acceptable and without political cost, as long as the successor is of higher seniority? Is that the gist of it?

Exactly!

[Coffee Sergeant]

Hi
No that will have no political cost. It will in the opposite case.

You only pay the moral/victory points cost if you change a bigger seniority army commander for one with lesser seniority.
But there is an exception: if you give another Army command to the just demoted higher seniority general that same turn, you will not pay the penalty.

To me the tooltip seems to be OK but i'm not a native English speaker so...
Regrads!

Actually in the last PBEM I played, I replaced Johnston with Lee, and gave Johnston a new command elsewhere, but I still paid the penalty. But that was an older version You can get the names right by dismissing and reforming in the same turn.

[Heldenkaiser]

I have swapped McDowell's and McClellan's commands, we'll see what happens. If I pay the cost, will I be informed? Or do I have to check my VP and NM closely to be sure? Thanks.

[Le Ricain]

I have swapped McDowell's and McClellan's commands, we'll see what happens. If I pay the cost, will I be informed? Or do I have to check my VP and NM closely to be sure? Thanks.

You will get a log message is somebody is upset about being passed over with the corresponding VP and NM costs.