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.