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Planning on getting pioneers and/or engineers to a number of my divisions, making them capable of siegework/breaches (allowing for RGDs).

[color="#FF0000"]Questions.
1. Do the pioneers + engineers combine modifiers (+2) when together in a stack?
2. Does a leader with engineer trait then make it +3?[/color]

The only difference I noticed between cav supply wagons and regular ones, is under mobility---movement...Heavy cav vs wheeled.

[color="#FF0000"]Question.
1. Is there much of a practical difference?[/color]

I've captured dozens of enemy art, including standard foot batteries, cav batteries, etc...but, I can't seem to join them with any of my divisions?

[color="#FF0000"]Questions.
1. Does the leader have to have the multinational trait?
2. The heavy coastal/fortress batteries take forever to move back towards friendly territory, would placing them with a leader speed them up and/or is it worthwhile to attempt force-marching them? This question also applies to the supply depots?[/color]

I have numerous dispirited leaders.

[color="#FF0000"]Question.
1. Do any of my actions (promoting/assigning command/etc) cause that, and/or, is there a way to remedy it?[/color]

And, I wanted to say again, loving the game even with the steep learning curve.

1. No, you cannot combine same name modifiers. You can get the same effect twice if it is from two modifiers with different names. Not a lot of reason to build many engineers in this game as most corps units have them already.

2. Yes, regular supply wagons are very slow, I love cav supply wagons.

3. You cannot combine captured units unfortunately. Usually if I have say Vienna's fort battery captured as France I will just disband the unit.

4. Unknown.

You can combine with the few leaders that have the multi- national trait. Don't waste them on leading French troops

First, identical Abilities do not stack. EG if two or more elements in a stack have the Siege Expert Ability, it's the same as if only 1 element in the stack had the Ability. Check the tool-tip of the Ability on the elements in question.

Abilities
1. As far as I can tell from a quick look, Pioneers have 'Siege Engineer', and Engineers have 'Siege Expert'. So since those are two different Abilities, albeit similar, both both Abilities will come into play in a single stack.
2. Check the tool-tip of the Ability of the leader in question. If the Ability is 'Siege Engineer' or 'Siege Expert', and you already have a Pioneer or Engineer in the stack, then the leader will not change anything, with regards to that Ability.

Captured Stuff
It might move quicker if it were in a very large stack. From my experience there seems to be a minimal averaging out of movement speeds, but there's nothing that will allow you to like take them apart, put them on wagons and haul them ways at a good pace.

You can however use ships/boats to transport them at the speed the transports, if you have a water way from where they are to where you want them to go.

Dispirited Leaders
Dispirited Leader is an 'Ability'--yeah, I know, "Ability".... Each leader has his own model, or models if he may be promoted. So a leader at one rank might have one set of Abilities, but at another rank a different set.

You might come across leaders who gain on statistical quality--Strategic, Offensive, and Defensive values--and/or Abilities in their higher ranking models. Some leaders might get better at a higher rank, and some worse. Unfortunately, the only was to know is either through experience, or to go through a leader's model files and check on them.

vicberg wrote:You can combine with the few leaders that have the multi- national trait. Don't waste them on leading French troops

So, a multi-national leader with, for example, Swiss, could be used to form a division--old style, with the Create Division Command SO--and add a captured Swiss battery to the division? Cool

Captain_Orso wrote:So, a multi-national leader with, for example, Swiss, could be used to form a division--old style, with the Create Division Command SO--and add a captured Swiss battery to the division? Cool

Finally had an opportunity to get a multi-national leader in place with a large amount of captured art batteries from different enemies (Saxony, Prussia and Russian), and can confirm that they can be combined. Woohoo... One other technique I've been using, when I use an independent stack, say a division, in many cases they have an extra CP, so I add (not combine) that 1 CP cost artillery to that stack.