Training Officer

[TheDoctorKing]

So how do training officers work? I've got Halleck sitting in Cairo with a ton of militia regiments under his command and I'm not noticing that any of them are turning into regulars. Is there some limit to the number you can train? Or do they have to do something -- like get into a fight?

[W.Barksdale]

You'll need to wait until the volunteers upgrade themselves to conscripts.
Training Officer's will only change conscripts into regulars.

[Coregonas]

Just as another mad idea---

Perhaps it should be better for game playability to do it the other way..

i.e. turn militia into conscripts?

I find myself doing tricky RR moves to Richmond, searching for all conscripts I find (cavalry, brigades with a single conscript, and so on) to assure these few extra training is used.

Turning militias into conscriptions instead, will be an effect similar, but will avoid these tricky things?

[GShock]

Micromanaging these things is fun

[TheDoctorKing]

Training officers should be able to take militia and run them all the way up to trained troops. It's silly to have them only able to affect half the process. What's the point? What are we simulating here?

[Paul Roberts]

IIRC, some militia upgrade to conscripts given time, while some other militia actually disband after a certain amount of time (when their area is no longer under threat, for instance). Not knowing which is which is part of the fog of war, while allowing an officer to train the latter up to regulars would feel like an exploit (or a forced draft, which should have an effect on NM).

[GShock]

Makes perfect Sense, Rob...but my question is, what does IIRC mean?

[Coregonas]

IIRC, some militia upgrade to conscripts given time, while some other militia actually disband after a certain amount of time (when their area is no longer under threat, for instance). Not knowing which is which is part of the fog of war, while allowing an officer to train the latter up to regulars would feel like an exploit (or a forced draft, which should have an effect on NM).

This problem is nearly non existant, as these militia events are very rare.

AS far as I know, these militias you are talking about are only some of the "free" volunteer locked units.

Once unlock (when they transform by themselves to militia) these can be merged into brigade, and then they dont dissapear, so...

If they dont unlock, just these can not arrive Richmond to be trained, as the only CSA general just is training for a FEW turns.

[Brochgale]

Hey Bragg needs something to do and that is how I use him - stick him in a city with a depot not to close to front line and send all those militia and conscripts there to raise them up - the ones that can be moved that is.
It is a slow division creation center but it achieves the result I am looking for. By spring of 62 I usually have 2 or 3 extra divisions to deploy that CSA might not otherwise have, once I allocate sharps, cav and art that is - divisions that on hard settings the CSA needs - so I dont have a problem with the system as it stands - speeding up the process might be verging on the gamey though?
BY Spring of 62 I have a few Generals looking for work that CSA does not have in 61 - Dont know how the play works out for Feds as I never play the Feds.

[Paul Roberts]

Makes perfect Sense, Rob...but my question is, what does IIRC mean?

"If I Recall Correctly"

[Chaplain Lovejoy]

Maybe we could use a thread that explains all the acronyms, if there isn't one already. Took me a while to figure out what WAD meant...!

[barkhorn45]

might as well ask,what does wad mean?

[Rafiki]

"Working as designed"

[Rafiki]

And since we've already cluttered the thread more than we should with this:

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=9217