Injured Generals

[ABridgeTooFar]

When a commander of a division gets injured, he sent to a nearby city to recover from his wounds. What happens to the brigades under his command?

I very strongly believe that they do not get grouped in with another unit. It is a little hard to tell in the crowded Virginia theater but in Missouri, Lyons was wounded and his attached brigades totally disappeared into the Missouri country air. What gives? Anyone else see this happen?

I am using 1.06.

[lpremus]

Do you have a screenshot of the battle that happened before Lyon's injury?

I too pondered on this issue. i think if you have the general attached to the brigade and the brigade is crushed then I think that the general would fall as well and not recover. This is what happened to Lyon early in the war. I have noticed that if a general is in the stack but not attached to a brigade then he is treated as a separate element even though his group is the leader of the brigade. So the game may not remove the general from the screen but put him in injured reserve or like in baseball a DL.

[Jabberwock]

Leaders only get wounded when their command is totally eliminated in battle. They have a chance to get killed in battle without it automatically affecting their commanded troops. Other options for handling this have been discussed, but that is the way it works for the foreseeable future.

[ABridgeTooFar]

Sorry no screenie. Thanks jabber. That pretty much answers my question. I guess that means I took quite a lickin' last night. McClellan's Army of Northern Virigina lost three divisions outside of Alexandria (Sumner, Whipple & Mansfield all injured).