battle planner and total number of troops

[Gen.Szatkownik]

Hello!

I have two questions:

1. When I can use battle planner (game version: Civil War II - The Bloody road south, patch 1.05)?

2. When I can see the total number of troops? For example, all the forces gathered in the Army of the Potomac.

Thank you for your response

greets

[Captain_Orso]

Hi Gen.Szatkownik and welcome to the forum

I'm not sure of the exact parameters, but I believe you need two ***leaders one of which must have a strategic rating of at least 4, plus I believe each side must have at least about 2 or 3 divisions.

[FightingBuckeye]

Welcome to the forum General

I don't know about the strat ratings affecting battle planning (BP) directly. I've had Butler, McClellan, McDowell, and Fremont all have BP in the past. Not when they had better stats either. I've also had lower ranking generals have a BP. Maybe the generals have to be active? Of course the lower strat ranking the less chance any general has to be active so that could be why some of the worse generals don't often get a shot at BP. I'm not sure really sure what the criteria is exactly. I've had large battles that I thought would have a BP not have one and I've had BP in smaller ones that I didn't think would warrant one.

If you hover your mouse over the power displays for the unit, it should tell you what each unit in a force has of each. At the top of the display where you have your special options such as depot building, force march, etc is where it'll display your cumulative totals for whichever force you have selected. Make sure the special orders aren't expanded out though.

[Gen.Szatkownik]

Welcome to the forum General

I don't know about the strat ratings affecting battle planning (BP) directly. I've had Butler, McClellan, McDowell, and Fremont all have BP in the past. Not when they had better stats either. I've also had lower ranking generals have a BP. Maybe the generals have to be active? Of course the lower strat ranking the less chance any general has to be active so that could be why some of the worse generals don't often get a shot at BP. I'm not sure really sure what the criteria is exactly. I've had large battles that I thought would have a BP not have one and I've had BP in smaller ones that I didn't think would warrant one.

You think BP randomly selects a battle?

If you hover your mouse over the power displays for the unit, it should tell you what each unit in a force has of each. At the top of the display where you have your special options such as depot building, force march, etc is where it'll display your cumulative totals for whichever force you have selected. Make sure the special orders aren't expanded out though.

Thanks, it works

[FightingBuckeye]

I don't think it's random, although I wouldn't rule out a random chance factor in whether BP happens. I was just responding to the previous post that I've had generals below 3 star and/or lower than 4 strategic ratic had BP in at least some of their fights. I strongly suspect that whether a general is active or not plays a role in whether BP occurs, but I haven't played CW2 much period and have played with BP in only 1 game. So I couldn't really say either way.