Power disappeared winter 61

[irabowman]

I am in winter of 61 and have like 5-6 generals with like 6, 1 star generals under them and power anywhere from 400 - 1300. So I started making some of these 1 star generals divisions and putting men into them so can start making attacks in spring. First group everything went fine no problems. When start next group Gen Banks he had combat power of 420 I think it was. After I finish Combat power is 37 and all the elements I put in under other division leaders are not there they are back under Gen Banks. Is this a bug or what & is my combat power now actually 37?

[Cardinal Ape]

I'm sorry, there is not enough info in your post to figure out whats going on with your forces. Could you elaborate? Maybe a screenshot?

You say your forces that you put into divisions are no longer in divisions after combat? Did one of your generals die? That would kick all the troops out of the division.

[irabowman]

1st I started with General Banks and he had 6, 1 star general under him and several elements Inf, Cal, Cannons etc. Giving this stack a combat power somewhere around 410 forget the actual number it was. So I made all these 1 star generals Divisional leaders and 3-4 elements to each division. After doing this and before doing anything else the stack goes from 410 combat power to 37. Also all the men are back under General Banks non of them in the divisions. First stack I did this too everything went good but this time something went wrong. Also I can't ever get a screen shot to post to a forum guess there is something I do wrong doing it, so not even going try that. Thank you if you can help if not I am just going assume maybe a bug or glitch happened.

[Captain_Orso]

You're not making sense, irabowman. First off, an element is a sub-unit. If you select a unit in the stack panel the elements (sub-units) appear in the unit detail window at the bottom right. You may see the NATO symbols of 2 or 3 infantry, maybe a cavalry, and maybe an artillery element, which make-up the unit.

A division is a special unit, a so-called combi-unit, because it can be made up of up to 14 units with a total of 17 elements plus the division commander for a total of 18 elements. Try to pack as many units into your divisions as possible, because regardless of the number of elements in the division, it still requires 4 Command Points (CP's) for it to be fully commanded.

It sounds like you created 6 divisions, each with only a few elements, which is not good, when you might need only 1 or 2 divisions to contain the elements. Are all of your divisions in Bank's stack? If you select Bank's stack do you see all of the divisions in the stack panel? Are you sure you've actually created divisions?

To create a division you select a leader and click the Create Division Command SO (Special Orders) button, and then select that leader and 1 or more units to add to the division and click the Combine Units SO button--or press <Ctrl><c>. You can add further units to a division by selecting the division and the unit(s) and combining them into the division, as long as the sum-total is 18 elements or less.

You can break a division down by selecting it and then clicking the Split Unit SO button--or pressing <Ctrl><d>. This allows you to reorganize the units in a division by removing some and adding others. As long as at the end of your turn plotting the division commander has at least 1 unit in his division, the division will remain a division. If however you fail to do this, during turn execution the division will cease to exist and the division commander will revert to simply a leader, and all the units will be independent units. If you wish to give that leader a division command again, you will have to start the entire procedure over again.

BTW you need to have at least 10 posts under your belt before you can post files to the forum. However if you use a picture hoster like PhotoBucket, you can do that immediately, because then you are only adding a link to your post.

PS Please no full screen pictures unless the entire screen is necessary to illustrate what you are explaining. Either using the Snipping-Tool or some other screen-shot app like Greenshot to select only that portion of the screen you want to show, or us a graphics editor to crop your screen shots down to what is necessary.