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Armies and corps activation

Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:13 pm

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?

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Fri Feb 01, 2008 11:35 pm

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

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Sat Feb 02, 2008 12:16 am

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.

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Sun Feb 03, 2008 2:50 am

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.
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