New regimental size/cost balance

[Banks6060]

I'm not sure when it was added to the game, but playing with such smaller brigades at the same cost is something I can't say I like.

Something that is a little off is that each conscription point is suppose to be worth 100 men...well in terms of buying new units that include say...

2 inf regiments...

the price has remained the same. $20 thousand and 20 conscript companies.??

This, I must admit, I do not favor. Because if every conscript company is to equal 100 men. And each regiment now only consists of 600 troops...then there are 4 conscript companies with every purchase that are just thrown into the ether.

Everything still works fine for replacements. But for brigade purchases...you could be wasting several hundred conscript companies each year....which of course could be going to other purchases.

If the 600 man regiment stays...then perhaps a hard look at the cost in manpower for each would be in order?

[arsan]

Hi!
The men per regiment numbers is just cosmetic.
It has no effect of game play and the 600 men regiment has the same power and same combat values as the 1000 men per regiment used before.
The change is just to get more historical flavor numbers of men on brigades divisions and armies. (Before all were inflated according historical realities)
Regarding the 400 missing men... well you just can count them as sick, wounded, deserters, stragglers and generally men not fit or present for the fight... or just figure that each conscript company is 60 men.
As i said, neither men per regiment nor men per conscript points are nothing more than flavor numbers.
For the game system this numbers (as well as horse and guns numbers) simply don't exist
The game just sees "hits" and the number of hits is now the same than before (but now with less flavor men per hit).
I much prefer this new system,. Now you can see and fight armies with roughly historical sizes and not huge ahistorical 200.000 men armies as before.

Regards!

[Banks6060]

I see. I had always known that the REGIMENTS consisted of "hits".

But I had thought that 1 conscript company DID actually consist of a certain number of "men". So it actually consists of a certain number of "hits".

Perfect. Much better. Well now that I understand it more clearly then there is no issue.

Thanks arsan.

[Redeemer]

If you use historical attrition, won't you get down to the 600 men eventually anyway? The Union had a range for new regiments to be considered full strength from 825 (64 privates per company) as a minimum to 1025 at full strength (82 privates per company). The exception being the heavy artillery regiments of 1800 men. Most units left there muster areas at full strength.