A Couple Of Newbie Questions...

[merlin2530]

I got this game as a random gift from a close friend a couple of weeks ago. In my teen years I was a big Avalon Hill Gettysburg boardgame fan and even to a bigger extent Lee Vs. Hill which was even more realistic. Supply lines and depots, unit activity levels, fortification building, attrition, etc. So far just teaching myself this game reminds me a lot of that one but with much more politics, a wider scope. But I've still got a question...

Reinf. vs. Replace: What is the difference? As far as I can tell I can order entirely new troops via replacements. These troops are ordered the next turn but are too green, they need to recruit and assemble and train. Each unit has a limit to how many can be in 'training' and waiting in the background.

Yet to start with I have no reinforcements. My best guess is that reinforcements are all volunteers, I need to mobilize to get them? Or do states build troops based on mobilization/draft and based on that state I can order them separately? Is it just that at first there are no 'reinforcements' and it takes a few turns to organize them since the war has just started? Do replacements get created differently? I can't even find a part of the manual that treats these differently.

[TeMagic]

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=6823

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?t=3466

http://ageod.nsen.ch/aacwwiki/Main_Page

[merlin2530]

- I already read Runyan's FAQ, it was very helpfull in strategy, thank you.

- If there's an FAQ, why is it not Sticky'ed?

- Thanks for the Wiki link.

[Rafiki]

Hi Merlin, and welcome to the forums

- If there's an FAQ, why is it not Sticky'ed?

It is stickied, but in the main forum for the game

To see an overview of how reinforcements and replacements relate to eachother and how they differ, take a look at http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?p=72934#post72934

[merlin2530]

I think I've got it now. The reinforcements quite literally just sub straight into damaged units of the specific type after losses, as unrealistic as it is for nationally ordered troops to appear exactly where needed.

Thanks.

[Gray_Lensman]

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