Reinforcement Question

[Leeds]

Ok, I set my reinforcements to all go to Springfield, IL.....I sent my deleted brigades there and nothing!

No brigades are reinforced or anything? Of note, I am low muster wise.....

Am I doing something wrong?

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Leeds

I sent my deleted brigades there and nothing!

One of those issues were one letter makes alot of difference, deleted or depleted brigades?
Unless memory serves me incorrectly brigades being deleted has to be in a container to distribute its men to other brigades.

[Leeds]

Depleted brigaes - without containers.

[Leeds]

What then is the best way to reinforce brigadaes that are down to 0 men........

[terje439]

0 men? Does not such a brigade become disbanded due to low strength?

• Strength — A measure of the men, horses, and artillery comprising a unit. U.S.A. Brigades normally have a maximum Strength of 3,000; C.S.A. brigades normally have a maximum Strength of 4,000. Ships have a maximum of 10 Strength. Units can become automatically disbanded at the end of the Movement Phase if their Strength falls too low.

About reinforcements from the manual:

2.3 Reinforcements
If a brigade’s Strength is depleted below its maximum level, it can have its Strength restored automatically
by Reinforcements. Reinforcements are generated by Camp buildings in cities. Each turn, every Camp produces reinforcements equal to 500 Strength. This Strength is then sent to depleted brigades, with each brigade receiving an equal portion of the available reinforcement Strength.


A.4.8 Advanced Reinforcement
The Advanced Supply rules for reinforcement are a bit different from the normal ones. Reinforcements
still restore Strength to depleted units, and are generate by Camp buildings, which still produce 500 Strength of reinforcements each turn.
This Strength is then sent to depleted brigades, but only so long as they are In-Supply, and only according to how much Supply they receive that turn: each level of strategic Supply received by a brigade In-Supply in a given turn is worth 100 points of Strength from reinforcements (if sufficient reinforcements are available). In addition, all brigades only receive reinforcements in order of their Supply Priority.
Restrictions:
• Brigades in military groups with Supply Priority set to No Supply may still receive
some points of strategic Supply, but they will not receive any reinforcements.
• The Canning upgrade provides an additional point of strategic Supply to units with High Supply Priority, but this additional point of strategic Supply does not translate into additional reinforcements.
• Camps in provinces that are experiencing Unrest do not produce reinforcements.
• Cavalry units are difficult to reinforce due to the logistical difficulties of re-supplying
horses, so cavalry receive only 33% of the normally calculated reinforcements;
however, this penalty is waived if a nation has the Cavalry Bureau upgrade.
Reinforcements Modify Quality: Reinforcements modify the Quality of the units they reinforce.
High-quality units that receive many reinforcements can have their Quality lowered substantially.
The Quality of reinforcements is related to National Will. (A technical explanation is provided in the Appendix.)
Maximum Reinforcements: No more than 500 Strength per Camp is disbursed to units in any one turn, and any reinforcement Strength generated by Camps in excess of the amount actually disbursed to In-Supply units is lost.
Foraging Grants No Reinforcement: Note that there is no reinforcement gained by foraging: strategic Supply gained by foraging does not grant a unit any reinforcements.

So if your units do not gain any reinforcements;
-are they in supply?
-are they set to forage?
both these makes a unit recieve no reinforcements.
Another thing that might be the issue is if this unit is set to low priority and your higher priority units sucks up all your available reinforcements.

[Leeds]

So should I have Camps in the cities/provinces where the depleted units are?

If I disband depleted units do I pick up the forces elsewhere? What is the effect of disbanding a unit?

[Ironclad]

Under advanced supply, pooled reinforcements from camps are assigned first to under-strength units in a container or containers where the supply is switched to a greater level than the other containers on your side. This happens wherever they are on the map so they don't need to be located with camps. Without advanced supply the distribution occurs randomly.

Disbanding units saves on the maintenance costs and (importantly) troops released are spread to all other brigades in the same military group although transfers will only take place to understrength brigades. Surplus troops not distributed are lost. Likewise all troops from a brigade disbanded outside a container.