ORIGINAL: warspite1
Why has the Grande Armee (top picture in post 4) only got 7,890 men?
That's just is what's in Napoleon's stack. It's the command HQ of the Army.
Here you can see Napoleon's command radius, shaded blue. Any corps formed in that area will be part of his army.
The white colored leaders are all corps commanders under his command/influence.
The leader at the upper right is outside of Napoleon's radius, so he is independent.
Being part of his army allows things like marching to the sound of the guns. If in the same region, it allows everyone to move together.
On the map, you can then have three kinds of land Stacks:
*The Army Stack, which is the Stack commanding subordinate Corps.
*The Corps Stack, which is a Stack subordinate to an Army Stack.
*Independent Stack, which is a Stack Out of the Command Chain. These three Stacks each have Units and they are all “containers” for Units. Units represent formations of various sizes and act as “containers” for elements, with from 1 to 18 elements in each Unit.
Corps are attached to specific Armies. Their purpose is twofold:
they never suffer the Out of Command Chain penalty and they get the following bonuses when operating within range of their Army:
*The Corps commander’s Strategic, Offensive and Defensive Ratings are increased by the expertise of the Army commander.
*If stacked in the same region, the Army’s formations have the ability to stay together during movement by choosing the corresponding Special Order (Synchronized Move).
*If spread out in different regions, there is a chance of supporting an adjacent Corps engaged in combat (i.e. “March to the Sound of the Guns”).
This ability is influenced by the level of Military Control in both regions and by the Corps’ Cohesion.
*Increased Command Point efficiency.
*Combat bonuses when several Corps are fighting together (they will help each other more efficiently during a fight).
*Some special abilities of the Army commander can benefit its Corps.
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