Why can't I form an army?

[Rongor]

Question remains, how can I now solve the 50 % penalty, lacking an army?
My only ***General Hindenburg is in charge of the GHQ. Everything below are corpses and several single divisions, artillery and support units...

[Ace]

Since Hindeburg is your only *** general, I presume you are playing the tutorial or Tanneberg scenario. To solve 50% penalty, you have to form multiple stacks in the same region by dragging units outside the stack. Watch the command points in the lower right of the screen. Every general can give you 24 command points. The maximum for non Army stack is 24 command points.

[Farrier]

Welcome to the forums Farrier

Thank you! I do want to say that although my first post contains some griping, I've been a big AGEOD fan for a while thanks to BOA2, RUS, and BOR (how I haven't bought more is beyond me).

It can be frustrating to learn these games, but they're enjoyable nonetheless. I spent four hours yesterday on my first two turns in the grand campaign just trying figure things out, but it was the most relaxing four hours of "gaming" I've had in a while.

[Jim Pfleck]

Related Question, I am playing as the Eastern Entante and it is late october (and again early november) 1914. I have detached Brusilov from Army command with the intention of making him a GHQ. I am not able to. He is in Czernowitz. Am I missing a rule that allows for *** Generals to form a GHQ?

Thanks

[Ace]

Russia can have only one GHQ. So remove Grand Duke form Army command first. The developer intention to allow only one GHQ for Russia is to limit their command and control effectiveness to only part of the front.

[Jim Pfleck]

Thanks Ace, I must have missed that somewhere. Ah, decisions decisions..

[ringhloth]

I feel that the AI suffers the most from the lack of flexibility of armies. It doesn't do great with deciding how to shift forces (not that there are AIs that are great with that, AFAIK), and making more armies is all about shifting forces around.

Playing a game with Plan XIX WE, where Russia choose to invade A-H and Germany chose the Molke plan, the AI doesn't seem to want to put a GHQ on the Western Front. So, while the required command for most of the stacks on the Western Front with me are quite reasonable for an army, they don't have any armies.

I don't feel as if I did anything too crazy, though Plan XIX is pretty crazy. Advanced through Belgium, knocked aside the Belgian and German corps that were sent in, and ended up advancing into the Northern Rhineland in the late fall, early winter months, and then launched a Spring offensive breaking through and uniting the fronts. I didn't get the UK into the game until Feb. 1915. Luxembourg seems to be acting weird, and supplying the large stack that I've encircled despite technically being neutral.

[DrPostman]

OK, this is what I have been told, and it could be wrong, but the formula for the
number of armies a GHQ can command is 3 + Command rating. Joffre has a 5
and so can command 8 armies. I replaced him with a 2 when his seniority crashed
and then could only command 5 armies. It was a shock to have that happen and
I will make sure I use the highest command rating I can find and not worry about
a small NM bump.

I'll be the first to accept correction on this but I think it's how this works.

[RGA]

OK, this is what I have been told, and it could be wrong, but the formula for the
number of armies a GHQ can command is 3 + Command rating. Joffre has a 5
and so can command 8 armies. I replaced him with a 2 when his seniority crashed
and then could only command 5 armies. It was a shock to have that happen and
I will make sure I use the highest command rating I can find and not worry about
a small NM bump.

I'll be the first to accept correction on this but I think it's how this works.

Very useful information, thanks.