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Prisoners
Posted: Mon Jun 22, 2009 10:12 pm
by rattler01
How do you offer a prisoner exchange?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:38 am
by slimey.rock
In the political tab on the ledger there's an option to select it. However, both sides have to agree. I'm not sure if athena ever does?
On another prisoner related question, do prisoners require any general/war supply to maintain? And the more prisoners the more resources?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 3:30 am
by phantomfeather
slimey.rock wrote:In the political tab on the ledger there's an option to select it. However, both sides have to agree. I'm not sure if athena ever does?
On another prisoner related question, do prisoners require any general/war supply to maintain? And the more prisoners the more resources?
You are absolutely correct. The AI will make a prisoner exchange but I've never looked at the numbers very closely (regarding POW's). In fact, the AI has traded prisoners with me three times in one game.
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:16 am
by kglorberau
What are the advantages of prisoner exchanges? I have always wondered, but never done it. Do you automatically get a large amount of reinforcements added to your manpower pool that you can use to fill up your depleted units? Does the exchange just do a one for one exchange? If I have 50,000 USA prisoners, and Athena has only 25,000 CSA prisoners, does the exchange just go for 25,000 - 25,000, leaving me with still having 25,000 USA prisoners???
Kglorberau
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 5:22 pm
by enf91
No. Each side gives up 1/3 of the prisoners it has. I don't know if the prisoners can be used as conscript points, but I do know that a successful exchange will increase both sides' NM and VP.
And.............
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 7:30 pm
by SkyWestNM
I believe the Union get a positive NM (1 NM IIRC) and the rebels get a negative one (2 NM IIRC). This could be random but I think it correctly reflects that the Union has an incentive inherent in their historicial decision to trade POWs and that the Confederacy has a cost involved to do so.
Just for verification purposes, someone check me out next time politics suggests a POW trade in their game, by signing for it (on and off) and checking out the NM differences in making the trade versus not making the trade shown at the bottom of the economics page.
I'd be interested too if results are the same.
Sky
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:03 pm
by enf91
The Union gets a 2 NM and 75 VP bonus. I don't know what the CSA gets.
And what's IIRC?
Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 8:09 pm
by Rafiki
enf91 wrote:And what's IIRC?
If I Remember Correctly
You can find a collection of common abbreviations and acronyms at
http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=9217
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 10:14 am
by Big Ideas
The CSA gets 1NM and 50 VP for the prisoners exchange.
Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:39 am
by Big Ideas
The USA gets 2NM and 15 VP for the prisoners exchange.
I just checked it.