Question about reemplacements

[Leibst]

Hi everybody of the non spanish forum.

i'v got one question for you about the reemplacements.
Playing the scenario of the campaing 1775 as the Americans i lost some big battles and with them my entire Continental army, all the regulars (my only regiment of regulars) the dragoons and the artillery. Well, i could wait and recover the army slowly i thought. But the time passes and i only receive some militia and supply wagons. I was in Spring of 1776 and i had no regular regiments but i had a lot of reemplacements of regulars. Does this have some sense to you?
Wouldn't be better recceive some regiment of regular army instead the reemplacements?
if i'm not wrong each 4 reemplacements could form one regiment. In spring 1776 i had at least 20 reemplacements of regular army but i had no one regiment in play.
Having reemplacements mean that in the real world there are soldiers prepared for combat, well, where are they???

[Pocus]

Hi,

The first regular remplacements only arrives in january 1776. They are generally partly used by the continental regiments still around (but you have lost them).
There is no in game mechanism for now to convert replacements into reinforcements (new units), thats why it can be a bit weird in your case.

Starting with february you should get new militias. Also, some of your leaders can convert militias into continental regiments (a slow process though, protect well your regulars).

You raise a valid point though, and we also know that for now the Americans get too much replacements ...

[Leibst]

I agree, it seems to be a lot of reemplacements in the Rebel side.

I've started another game in the same scenario and as you say taking a lot of care of my Continental regiment.
How long takes to convert a Militia regiment into Regular being all the time with the apropiate leader (as Washington)? depends the time it takes of the experience of the unit? i mean a more veteran militia will convert faster?

[Generalisimo]

Hi everybody of the non spanish forum.

i'v got one question for you about the reemplacements.
Playing the scenario of the campaing 1775 as the Americans i lost some big battles and with them my entire Continental army, all the regulars (my only regiment of regulars) the dragoons and the artillery. Well, i could wait and recover the army slowly i thought. But the time passes and i only receive some militia and supply wagons. I was in Spring of 1776 and i had no regular regiments but i had a lot of reemplacements of regulars. Does this have some sense to you?
Wouldn't be better recceive some regiment of regular army instead the reemplacements?
if i'm not wrong each 4 reemplacements could form one regiment. In spring 1776 i had at least 20 reemplacements of regular army but i had no one regiment in play.
Having reemplacements mean that in the real world there are soldiers prepared for combat, well, where are they???

You have to take care of your regular forces A LOT... you should have seen that in my AAR...

[Pocus]

I agree, it seems to be a lot of reemplacements in the Rebel side.

I've started another game in the same scenario and as you say taking a lot of care of my Continental regiment.
How long takes to convert a Militia regiment into Regular being all the time with the apropiate leader (as Washington)? depends the time it takes of the experience of the unit? i mean a more veteran militia will convert faster?

These kind of leaders are (on average) capable of converting a full regiment (4 subunits) in a regular within 4 months. Militia are checked with the "oldest first" rule, not "more experienced first" (there is always room for improvements in a game yes...)

[James D Burns]

Hi,
Starting with february you should get new militias. Also, some of your leaders can convert militias into continental regiments (a slow process though, protect well your regulars).

This reminds me, in my last game when I played the US, I had several continental units disband with the militia. Is this correct? I assume it's a bug and the program simply saw them as militia still and not regulars. It was a while ago when this happened, but I think the units that disbanded had all appeared as reinforcements when the militias were raised, and then they left when the militia left.

The next time I play as the US I’ll keep a closer eye on this to see if any “converted in the field” continental regulars disband or if they are all reinforcements.

Jim

EDIT: Oops never mind, I just found the new manual and it explains that untrained regulars have a 10% chance to disband just like militia. Thanks for the re-write, great work.

[Pocus]

ok, I was going to respond