The Great Vanishing Act

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In the early 1805 Grand Campaign, the French have an endless demand for Replacement Chits. No matter how many infantry, cavalry and artillery chits you buy, one never seems able to fill the need; it’s like throwing stuff into a bottomless hole.

That I can live with. But my problem is, where in the world are the chits going?

I know about missing elements in white and how to increasing the chances of a unit receiving replacements by giving green orders on a supply depot. And occasionally I will see a message in the replacement/training box that so and so received such and such, but the vast majority of the spent chits just seem to disappear into thin air.

What am I missing here?

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Edit - Figured it out, the problem was:

Incomplete divisions to start with - a lot of units were near empty shells. As many did not show white hash marks, I failed to understand they were missing large number of components.

In addition, it looks like, in WON, a unit can receive more than 1 element a turn.

And last but not least, I hadn't checked French forces overseas; they were swallowing up quite a few replacements.

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yeah overseas force are annoying because it means you can't have too big a stockpile of replacement chits or they will go to garrison units and oversea units.. annoying.

Plus units like the guard pump up 3 times as much chits for each replacement, so guard arty just dries up your stock of replacement chits when they load up.