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I'm playing a game with the ominous third activation rule box checked. The Tool-Tip says

If checked, land forces with a non activated cammander have a high chance of NOT being able to move at all.

However I'm seeing commanders become activated and at the same time become locked. Is this WAD?

It has been a long time since I played hard activation, but IIRC, when a unit become "unlocked", it gives you a message. Then there was an activation roll,which the unit failed, locking it again. The activation message is only in the log correct? Then it doesn't really effect game play.

Hi Jim, thanks for your response.

Whenever a leader becomes unlocked there is a message stating that 'so-n-so is now active in such-n-such region', even if he isn't 'activated'.

Then, as you have stated, it can occur that the presently 'active/unlocked' leader is suddenly locked again.

There seems to me to be no correspondence between being 'activated' and 'unlocked/active'. The Tool-Tip, as I've quoted, states that there is a 'high chance' of the leader not being able to move at all, but it says nothing about a chance of 'activated' leaders being locked.

What bugs me is that the description in the rules and the Tool-Tip insinuate that the chance of being locked is based upon being unactivated, so that a leader could have 3 stati

1. Activated
2. Unactivated, but active (has a 'brownie-- -35% movement and combat penalty, cannot attack, etc.)
3. Unactivated & locked--cannot move at all

But it seems, from what I am seeing, that activated/unactivated and locked/active are two different things with no actual relationship to each other.

In other words, on top of the D6-roll to determine if a leader is activated or unactivated there is a second role after that to determine if he is active or locked.

If that is the case and this is also a D6-roll then hard activation causes a 50% greater chance of having a leader with a strategic rating of 3 hindered or immovable

IE
Hard Activation

• 25% chance of activated/unlocked (good)
• 25% chance of inactive/unlocked (bad)
• 25% chance of unactivated/locked (very bad)
• 25% chance of activated/locked (bad)

And if there is a chance of a presently activated/active leader again rolling to become unactive/locked and then inactivated... this is giving me a headache

It sounds like the general in question doesn't know his headquarters from his hindquarters: I move we call this "The General Pope Conundrum."

Hey, I resemble that remark

It may have changed with the latest patch. When I played with hard activation, (1.14 I believe), it seemed that you had 3 options:

1. pass activation
2. not pass activation (become a brownie)
3. fail activation (become locked).

BTW, as a bonus, locked generals didn't cost NM if they were passed over. So I was able to not give Mac an army, and I didn't have to pay any NM for it. That was the only redeeming feature about hard activation in my book. I could skip over several starting union generals for army commands.

Now you tell me

I got saddle with Mac because I couldn't afford to lose the 10 NM and he's about to get smacked really hard by Lee around Manassas