Some questions

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Gribeauval
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Some questions

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Sometimes, I see enemy units "flashing" : it looks like an explosion, the counter seems burning.
There are no messages associated ( like supply destroyed by a lucky shot), the unit doesn't seem involved in any fight.
What does it represent ?

I also get the message warning me that a full brigade is disrupted, but when I check each unit of the brigade, I can see that some regiments are not disrupted at all.
Is this normal ?

In the patch notes, I can read that routed units are now marked with a R in the oob list. But I have units performing rout moves and I can't see any R letter in the oob list.
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Sometimes, I see enemy units "flashing" : it looks like an explosion, the counter seems burning.
There are no messages associated ( like supply destroyed by a lucky shot), the unit doesn't seem involved in any fight.
What does it represent ?

I also get the message warning me that a full brigade is disrupted, but when I check each unit of the brigade, I can see that some regiments are not disrupted at all.
Is this normal ?

In the patch notes, I can read that routed units are now marked with a R in the oob list. But I have units performing rout moves and I can't see any R letter in the oob list.

The first seems like you're describing the graphic used to show that a unit has rallied. As for the other two issues, these haven't been raised before so I'll check with Eric to see if there might be a problem.
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RE: Some questions

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I can second that the R in the OOB appears to be missing. As I posted in the technical support threads, it also seems like the text when one inspects a unit showing that it is routed, disrupted or whatever is very often missing over the last couple patches as well.
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The flashing graphic is indeed an indication that the unit has rallied -- I think from the special-rally rule, that is, a rally caused by a general somewhere in the unit's hierarchy.

When the R is missing in the OOB, can you confirm that those units are still routed (say, by selecting the unit and looking at its stats)? I will look into this.
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I can confirm that they have bad statistics, but I knew that they were routed thanks to the message "... brigade has performed rout move".
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It's possible that some units which perform a rout move afterward are rallied and at that point are no longer routing.
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