Random allocation of Captains to ships - new question

[Cavalry Corp]

If a ship is set to random captain allocation does that mean it is restricted to say that a French ship only has a random French nationality commander, picked by the computer- advice please.

CAV

[btd64]

Yes, I believe so....GP

[Cavalry Corp]

That will be really good - in my mod I just added a new list of naval leaders for France and Holland but not sure every ship got allocated. The unallocated ones as you know are normally set at random.

I would like to think the computer chooses only a leader of the nationality and then that its a ship captain - Or else I suppose we will get a total mix which would seem silly - Thanks Sir.

[Cavalry Corp]

Do you know why some captains have no choice as replacement where others have loads of new Captain options ?

Is that something to do with the random allocation feature. Is it when specific captains are allocated then there is no way of replacing them. Only just looked into this issue. Do you or anyone have any advice.

[Chris21wen]

Do you know why some captains have no choice as replacement where others have loads of new Captain options ?

Is that something to do with the random allocation feature. Is it when specific captains are allocated then there is no way of replacing them. Only just looked into this issue. Do you or anyone have any advice.

The info is a bit scant on leaders in general a lot of it mystical. This is how I think in works.

Leaders have a rank, nation and type of unit they can command. Each scenario has a fixed number of named leaders in a list based these criteria but these are named leaders and may or may not be available dependant upon date. In game you cannot see this list. In the editor you can but it's not filtered and findin specific leaders based on the criteria requires scrolling through 30,000 of them. You can find them by name however. Tracker on the other hand has filters so I'll use this.

In scen #1 I'm using the two French small ground units on the map at the start, both set to random leader. Every time you start the scenario you get a new name pick from a list of surnames with an initial thrown in and a rank based on the unit's type, size and nation. This leader is saved in the save file.
Random leaders are not picked from the list of named leaders and are never added to that list, they can't it's scenario data not save data.

Opening Tracker at the start lists 5 leaders available, the two randomly generated ones and three named leaders received as reinforcement much later in the game.

If you want to change one of these leaders there isn't one, however the game will generate a random number of leaders if you click his name. When I did it came up with 5, the current leader and 4 new ones. These four are automatically added to the list of French small ground unit leaders. Whether they disappear after time of remain I do not know but they are all available to the other unit.

A similar thing happens with ship captains except the list of ships is bigger so the named list was longer with one free ship capatin available. The game will still generated 4 new leaders, giving you a choice.

As to why 4 new one's I do not know, possibly fixed at four. As to what happens once you use them up, I don't know. Possible generate another four or more likely limit you somehow based on the total number of units in the game? This would answer your question.

[Cavalry Corp]

Now that is an answer - and soooo complicated. why cant things be more straightforward. I will digest and come back. Tks.

[Chris21wen]

Basically units have to have a leader. If there is none available the game generates some.

[Cavalry Corp]

Ok thanks