Enemy information

[Jagger]

How accurate is the tooltip information provided on enemy formation strengths?

After several hard fought battles, I have noticed when I hover the tooltip over the enemy formation, I will see full strength power for their formations. It is as if the enemy didn't even fight a battle. Yet I know it was a hard fought battle leaving my troops with low cohesion and losses but the rebs are back at full strength immediately after the battle.

If I see a regiment with a strength of 21/45 or a brigade at 270/270, I assume the intelligence is fairly accurate. I just had a big battle at Bowling Green and yet I see the very same reb formation at 270/270 at the beginning of the next turn. I have seen this type of quick recovery information after a number of battles in different PBEMs.

How can reb armies achieve such quick recovery from battle which I know my union armies are incapable of achieving. Do the reb armies have very quick reinforcement and cohesion recovery beyond the capability of Union armies. Or am I misunderstanding the information.

So how accurate is tooltip information on enemy armies?? Are certain factors being left out in the depiction which gives an inaccurate reflection of the real strength of enemy formations? What is happening here that I don't understand?

[Winfield S. Hancock]

This is something I have been wondering about as well. Is the tooltip info accurate, or just an estimate? Are the numbers you see affected by FOW level, support in the region, and leader traits like Poor Spy Network?

[PBBoeye]

MMmm, that's a good question. I'd like to think they aren't absolute, but rather affected by various 'intelligence' factors. Is there no documentation on this?

[Crimguy]

Just from casual observation, it seems to be accurate. At the lowest detection, you have the units, and perhaps the name of hte commander. When you have the strengths, it appears to be the highest detection level.

[Jagger]

I believe the enemy information provided by the tooltip does not take into account reduction in power due to cohesion reductions. The information is "actual" and "total possible" numbers of elements in the enemy formation.

An enemy unit can be at full strength yet totally useless due to low cohesion which is not revealed by the tooltip intelligence.