Stelteck wrote:Relative to tachanka (or mountain troops), i thought having a single independant unit in the corps pile was enough to give the initiative bonus to the whole pile ?
I also do not understand why having a big division help avoiding destruction of elements ?
Does divisions give bonus for frontage calculation ? Because if not, having an element in a division or outside a division is the same thing for probability of being selected for frontage ? (And each element of frontage have the same probability of taking hits). I'am wrong ?
I probably did not understand something about the battle mecanism.
Some elements give their benefits to the entire stack, others give their benefit to just the unit that they are embedded in. The tooltip comment will indicate which is the case for any particular element.
Regarding inclusion and possible damage of elements in a battle, I could be mistaken about this, but my understanding is that each of the enemy units (divisions, brigades, or individual elements loose in the corps or army structure or just present in the region) will target one of your units (divisions, brigades, or individual elements). The bigger of your units will be more likely to be targetted. But the bottom line is that when the enemy's unit (whatever it is) is targeting something in your forces, what will be targeted will be a division, brigade, or loose element, not the entire corps or army or accumulated forces in the region. That is why the damage is spread out over the division (for example) and having a bigger division minimizes the chance of its elements taking too much damage.
Frontage comes into play as the battle mechanic that figures out how many of your assorted units (divisions, brigades, loose elements) can fit onto the batte line to do damage to the enemy. Note that the enemy may target other units that are not on your frontage doing damage to his units. War is chaotic. There is a wiki that goes into detail that I will post later, when I get back to my regular computer. I hope this helps!!