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Some men are taken from the pool outside of replacement phase, for example when squads are delivered to partisan units via air drops. That's why they are not accounted for in the USED column, and thus POOL-USED does not equal to ACTIVE (this info is dumped at different time - the very end of logistics phase).

TRANSFER is transfer pool, these men are returning from the front, and will make it to ACTIVE pool at the start of your next logistics phase (so there is a week delay, men returning are not available to be used in the same turn). Your TRANSFER is mostly made of those men listed in the BACK column in replacement phase (but there may be some men returned outside of replacements phases). Default production screen view shows numbers for ACTIVE+TRANSFER thus giving false impression that you have unused men in the pool. It can be switched to show either ACTIVE or TRANSFER (or both).

ok, thank you

One question:
Why ready elements go from front to transfer pool and then they go back to the pool?
What is it modeling?

Time to dispatch them to new owners. It's a simplification and averaging of time spent away from the front. For some elements it could mean servicing, replacing some used up parts etc. It is also helpful in replacement procedures not going crazy with items appearing in the pool magically mid-phase and throwing distribution calculations off.

ORIGINAL: morvael

HQ has TOE%/1000 chance to add 1 to leader admin skill. That's why I prefer to keep mine up to strength.

Is this stated somewhere in the rules?

Here's a direct quote from the rules 11.3.1 Leader Rating Check Procedure

Approximately one admin point is subtracted from the leader's admin rating for every ten percent the HQ unit is below its TOE support squad strength, with a max reduction of five points.

Which one is correct, or do they both apply?

In any case, I'd keep my HQ ToE above 90% when possible

Only the chance to add +1 applies.

ORIGINAL: morvael

Only the chance to add +1 applies.

Are you 100% sure about that? I can only find the penalty from the manual, and no signs of +1 chance either in the manual or patch notes?

I'm sure, I have written down detailed rules for leader rolls in a post some time ago.
Manual is very badly outdated.

Anyone has a link to this? In which section morvael?

Search is not working on the dev forum. I can't find it, and I don't have time for manual search [:(]

Found this via Google:
fb.asp?m=3761599
May be a bit outdated, but only slightly, in edge cases.

Thank you very much morvael[&o]

There's quite many differences to the manual there, stuff that's not even in the condensed manual I think? I wish there was a REAL updated manual [:(]