To Buy Or Not To Buy? That Is The Question...

[GShock]

That's "Gross"

First of all you can cycle through land units with E or R key no need to use mouse and go over the blue dots

Secondly, you will need to organize troops into divisions (use * generals) Corps (use ** or *** generals) and Armies (Use *** generals only). Some of the * can be promoted, so pick a GOOD one and let him fight. If he survives and gains enough seniority, you will be able to promote him.

The leadership issue is a medium complexity one (very complex if you have little experience then it becomes very easy once u learn it). It's not about the rank only, and the CP needed to command each unit get summed up for a total which the rank and the number of assistant leaders may help managing.

Course if you got questions...i'm an adept player, technically AACW is the only game i play regularly.

[decaro]

You don't understand; if you cycle w/the E/R keys, then you will lose track of your stack of generals. This technique saves me the trouble of bouncing back-and-forth between the generals and where I need to send them.

This technique is just to get leadership from the NE into isolated commands; besides, I would need a 3-star w/an HQ to form an Army, and you don't get many of those combinations.

[GShock]

I make an example with CSA in '61. There's 2 stacks, 1 for 61 Generals and another one with 61 DIV generals. They are obviously in Richmond.
Since they will always spawn in Richmond and you have many stacks on the map, cycling with E/R lets you see them without looking for them with the mouse one by one. Then when u find a penalyzed stack without leader, you go back to Richmond and either move a general from those 2 stacks by rail or you use the redeploy order, to the penalyzed stack.

Hard not to find Richmond on the map...and you only need to find that manually while you can find the target stack for the leader with E/R. (Helps a lot to filter out the fixed stacks)

Finally there's the ledger...you don't even really need to find the stack of generals in Richmond...you can just sort the Generals using the ledger filter down to the one-on-one selection according to ranks or names for example.

[decaro]

You still don't understand what I'm doing; going back to Richmond/Washington is not the issue, it's remembering where you left the troops that need a general!

Moving over the map w/the mouse while keeping the available stack of generals in the unit panel allows me to click and drag a general where I need him w/o going back and forth to Richmond or Washington.