Camps & manpower

[BodyBag]

Hi all!

Is there no drain on manpower in the cities where you place your camps?

Cheers,

[moose1999]

The direct drain is when you raise new units - there is only a certain amount of units you can raise from each city each year, this refreshes once a year, though.
A more indirect drain is in the april population boom every year. Here there is a chance for all cities to gain manpower - but also to loose some - and for every camp you have in a city the chance of loosing some manpower gets bigger. This manpower you loose/gain in April is lost/gained permanently - as opposed to when you raise units.

Camps give you reinforcements proportinal to the city they are in. So on one hand it's good to place them in your biggest cities - on the other hand, spamming your biggist cities with camps gives them a high risk of loosing manpower permanently, so you have to be careful.

[BodyBag]

Ok, found the info in the readme files for v. 1.10.10 but nowhere does it say that a manpower loss is permanent,- are you sure?

Cheers,

[moose1999]

Well, I think I actually wrote too fast, there.
It's not a permanent loss - it only lasts for a year.
Untill next April where the dice is thrown anew...

[BodyBag]

Yes, I thought so.

I'm on my first game ever and still in december 1861, so I have never experienced the April "manpower-refill".

Lots of action though, already 3 decisive battles (which I won as CSA) in winter-conditions (even snowstorm).

Good with an agressive AI, but I don't hope it's stupidly agressive. Human players have an def. advantage with the detailed combat, I think.

Cheers,

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: BodyBag

Yes, I thought so.

I'm on my first game ever and still in december 1861, so I have never experienced the April "manpower-refill".

Lots of action though, already 3 decisive battles (which I won as CSA) in winter-conditions (even snowstorm).

Good with an agressive AI, but I don't hope it's stupidly agressive. Human players have an def. advantage with the detailed combat, I think.

Cheers,

Well, the AI will provide your lads with alot of experience [:D]
And yes, a human player has a great advantage over the AI with detailed combat, this can be altered by higher difficulty settings (this will increase the morale of AI troops making them harder (impossible at times) to rout), or by not using the urge to surround tons of AI brigades (still as the South you need to capture some to keep Union numbers down, and arty is always to be captured so that you get some free arty for the CSA).
The only thing I do not like about the AI agressivness is that it will sometimes throw brigades that are not ready for battle onto my lines (units with low low low morale or only improvised weapons).
There are however times when I am still given a surprise or two by the AI, and espesially on the higher settings you might very well encounter battles were you have to do some work to pull it off.
Anyway a great game imo!

[BodyBag]

For my first game, I play with all the advanced rules on and with First Sergent diff. If it is too easy, I will ramp up the diff. and try the Juli 1861 scenario,- that should be harder for the CSA.
 
I just wish the detailed combat looked a little better,- you spend a lot of time in that mode and the graphics look more primitive than the Battleground Series some 15 years ago.
 
Cheers,

[haruntaiwan]

If it is too easy, move up to 2nd Lt....