Army Organization

[Jagger]

Organize separate cav divs for raiding/chasing raiders or stuffing in army hqs. They're easy to detach and you don't lose that much combat power. Still undecided whether or not to put sharpshooters in them. Usually add horse arty and gatling guns (if I'm union).

Attached sharpshooters will slow down cavalry formations. Same thing with horse artillery. Actually horse artillery will reduce the speed of a cavalry division to the speed of an infantry division. Which is OK dependent on how you intend to use the cavalry.

Actually the speed reduction to a cavalry division is greater by adding horse artillery than adding a sharpshooter. Although horse artillery is a medium horse unit rather than a wheeled unit. Which means less impact from rough terrain than if you had attached non-horse regular wheeled artillery.

[Jagger]

"Strong morale" is also a unit binus, isn't it? I try to have at least one "strong morale" element in each division, especially the ones that are expected to see heavy fighting.

I don't know for a fact that "strong morale" is a unit bonus. But I think it is because the "strong morale" symbol is illustrated on the Division commander in the same way as the sharpshooter symbol.

If correct, having one strong morale brigade in assault divisions would make a lot of good sense. Something I haven't been doing...

[anarchyintheuk]

Attached sharpshooters will slow down cavalry formations. Same thing with horse artillery. Actually horse artillery will reduce the speed of a cavalry division to the speed of an infantry division. Which is OK dependent on how you intend to use the cavalry.

Actually the speed reduction to a cavalry division is greater by adding horse artillery than adding a sharpshooter. Although horse artillery is a medium horse unit rather than a wheeled unit. Which means less impact from rough terrain than if you had attached non-horse regular wheeled artillery.

As you say, depends on how you use them. Usually go for firepower rather than speed, but I can see the need for it sometimes. Getting the first shot (i.e. sharpshooters) on a such a relatively weak defensive unit as cavalry seems like a significant advantage.

[General Quarters]

"Strong morale" is also a unit binus, isn't it? I try to have at least one "strong morale" element in each division, especially the ones that are expected to see heavy fighting.

By strong morale unit, do you mean experienced troops, or something in addition to that?

[Jabberwock]

By strong morale unit, do you mean experienced troops, or something in addition to that?

He means elites, the guys with a little black plus sign on a gold background. That is the 'Strong Morale' ability symbol for infantry. Leaders use the same symbol for 'Charismatic' and 'Good Administrator' abilities.

[Jabberwock]

Above is a Pocus explanation of how OFFCost and Combat_Unit_Cost and Support_Unit_Cost determine frontage limits from the Terrain files.

Basically you divide the Combat_Unit_Cost or Support_Unit_Cost from the terrain files by the movement cost of the unit. There is a percentage modifier, OFFCost, if a unit is on offense. I did the calculations and came up with the 3:1 ratio for common battlefield terrain.

There is nothing wrong with having more artillery or infantry units than the number indicated by frontage limitations. If too many units are available for frontage limitations, then the excess will enter battle if any of the first units retreat or rout. However for max efficiency in number of formations, meeting the terrain frontage limitations makes sense.

Here is a link to the thread explaining frontage.

[Jabberwock]

I re-read that section of the manual prior to making a wiki change. Does the ADC only affect corps which are in the same region as the Army HQ? Anybody know?

Anybody?

[Pocus]

Adc?

[Rafiki]

"Aide de camp", I suspect

[Pocus]

Silly me...

It affects all child stacks of the army.

[morvael]

So, to sum it up a 4-1-1 ADC in the Army plus a signal and baloon unit in every corps gives +4 CP in every corps?

[marecone]

So, to sum it up a 4-1-1 ADC in the Army plus a signal and baloon unit in every corps gives +4 CP in every corps?

Can somebody please answer this?
Thanks

[Le Ricain]

Can somebody please answer this?
Thanks

Marecone,

Good to see that you are back.

I do not believe that the ADC bonus actually works. The CP bonus for balloon and staff are good.

[marecone]

Marecone,

Good to see that you are back.

I do not believe that the ADC bonus actually works. The CP bonus for balloon and staff are good.

Oh, my regimental buddy .
Thanks for the answer.
Althought I have played this game like thousand times I still come back to this forum and again and again find usefull tips.

Godspeed