Question about New Units Just Recruited

[dolphin]

Obviously newly recruited brigades are most vulnerable when they are locked in place while forming up.

In situations where newly recruited brigades are attacked before they are formed up enough to be unlocked on their own my questions are...

1) If they are outside of town and lose a battle are they eliminated, or are they unlocked due to the attack and allowed to retreat?

2) Would it better to keep such brigades in this precarious state on defence and hold at all costs, or perhaps to put them on Passive Posture and Retreat if Engaged hoping they may actually evade combat for the round it takes for them to become unlocked thus avoiding elimination?

[Cromagnonman]

Don't really know what they do if attacked while red. I do know that they mature much more slowly outside of structutes. Hospital units etc do not seem to alter their rate of maturation.

[GraniteStater]

These brigades have few men and are very vulnerable. I beleive the elements are destroyed, and quite easily.

[sbr]

In my current game I had recruited a bunch of units in Ohio, of course that turn the Rebels landed a good sized Corps just outside of Cincinnati, where a bunch of the units showed up. IIRC I had 2 Sharpshooters, 2 Cannons and a 2IN/1Cav/1LtArt brigade appear in Cincy. I really didn't have any hope of holding off the attack so I threw everything in the city, including my locked newly formed units into one big mish-mash under Buell. Somehow or another DC with his rag-tag bunch and some timely help from northern Ohio held out.

I lost the 2Inf/1Cav elements from the one brigade but the LtArt along with everything else survived.

Not sure how relevant this is but it seemed to be when I started typing.

[Jim-NC]

Obviously newly recruited brigades are most vulnerable when they are locked in place while forming up.

In situations where newly recruited brigades are attacked before they are formed up enough to be unlocked on their own my questions are...

1) If they are outside of town and lose a battle are they eliminated, or are they unlocked due to the attack and allowed to retreat?

I just had this happen, and the forming unit won, so he stayed locked.

2) Would it better to keep such brigades in this precarious state on defence and hold at all costs, or perhaps to put them on Passive Posture and Retreat if Engaged hoping they may actually evade combat for the round it takes for them to become unlocked thus avoiding elimination?

They build fastest on passive, but you can put them on defensive if you are willing to allow them to take longer to build. I don't know how much longer it takes.

[Mickey3D]

I just had this happen, and the forming unit won, so he stayed locked.

Originally Posted by dolphin
2) Would it better to keep such brigades in this precarious state on defence and hold at all costs, or perhaps to put them on Passive Posture and Retreat if Engaged hoping they may actually evade combat for the round it takes for them to become unlocked thus avoiding elimination?

They build fastest on passive, but you can put them on defensive if you are willing to allow them to take longer to build. I don't know how much longer it takes.

My experience is that the unit will switch to defense mode if an ennemy force enter the region.