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Death in Battle for Army Commanders
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 3:42 am
by The Red Baron
In my game as EE, the Austrians just put Gen Brusilov down for the long dirt nap during the assault on Czernowitz. I was quite shocked as pg 115 of the manual says 3*** are immune from death in battle. Was this rule changed after the manual was written?
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 7:01 am
by Merlin
They're immune with the public betas, but you'll still lose a corps commander every so often.
Posted: Mon Oct 20, 2014 10:21 pm
by The Red Baron
Corps or army cmdr? I know corps cmdrs may occasionally die, but I lost my army cmdr.
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 4:47 pm
by caranorn
The Red Baron wrote:Corps or army cmdr? I know corps cmdrs may occasionally die, but I lost my army cmdr.
Was the army in question whipped out? That is all it's components destroyed? That's when you usually get "wounded leaders", if the leader in question has no structure to be moved to he will iirc be removed from the game, also there might be a random chance for him to die outright...
Posted: Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:59 pm
by The Red Baron
No, my army survived; it won the battle and captured the city. The following turn the msg log stated Brusilov had died in the assault. Has this feature been changed in a patch and not noted, I wonder?
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 9:00 am
by Pocus
Immune from stray shots (the random roll each general undergoes after a battle, if he participated). Not immune from having all elements of all units of his stack destroyed. This Monsieur, is called an ignominious defeat, and a general can always die from that!
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 12:39 pm
by Palpat
Well, stray shot should be back in. It could also emulate suicide : Samsonov...
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:46 pm
by Kensai
Palpat wrote:Well, stray shot should be back in. It could also emulate suicide : Samsonov...
Good idea!
Posted: Wed Oct 22, 2014 11:15 pm
by The Red Baron
Pocus wrote:Immune from stray shots (the random roll each general undergoes after a battle, if he participated). Not immune from having all elements of all units of his stack destroyed. This Monsieur, is called an ignominious defeat, and a general can always die from that!
Ah, but the stack survived! It was not destroyed; Brusilov still died, though. Am I missing something?
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2014 3:43 pm
by Projekt Pasha
Try having your GHQ commander get killed. Now that causes real problems. I once had Joffre get killed in a PBEM with Ringhloth. In 1914. To say that was problematic would be a serious understatement.