Does rest/training actually do anything?

[Disco Duck]

Ok, I am beginning to think that rest/ training has no purpose. At Los Angeles on December eighth I set the 65th Coastal AA to no replacements rest/ training. I left the 78th at combat with replacements and combat. I sandboxed it to the middle of March. Moral and experience both increased at the same rate. Note: Experience will not go up until your " set future objective" is 100.

[Yaab]

Rest cures Fatigue accumulated via combat. A fatigued unit has reduced AV in further combat. You wont see it in the game, but it can be seen in the Tracker.

[obvert]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

Ok, I am beginning to think that rest/ training has no purpose. At Los Angeles on December eighth I set the 65th Coastal AA to no replacements rest/ training. I left the 78th at combat with replacements and combat. I sandboxed it to the middle of March. Moral and experience both increased at the same rate. Note: Experience will not go up until your " set future objective" is 100.

You're talking about prep. Not the effects of rest mode in general, right?

Rest mode has use when a unit is disrupted and/or fatigued from battle or bombardment and needs to recover. A unit in rest will also not put its engineers to use building, so therefore does not use as much supply. It will also not shoot back, so uses less supply if attacked by air strikes.

[HansBolter]

It's the "/training" that is the misleading part of the setting title.

Units don't have to be in Rest/Training mode to gain experience by 'training'. They just need to be at 100 planning points and be below the national minimum training level, which is also the maximum level they can train too. Gaining experience above the national minimum standard requires combat participation.

Units also do not NEED to be in Rest/Training mode to get reductions in fatigue and disruption and gains in morale, but it HELPS for units that are heavily fatigued and disrupted. They will regain those stats faster in rest mode, but the presence of supply and support are very big factors.

An isolated unit in a malarial jungle hex with little support or supply will not regain stats much more quickly in rest mode than in combat mode, because the necessary components to support gains in those stats are not present. In this case recovery will be abysmally slow under both settings.

[Disco Duck]

Thanks. Now I can quit wasting my time setting units on the west coast to train while waiting to ship them out.

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: Disco Duck

Thanks. Now I can quit wasting my time setting units on the west coast to train while waiting to ship them out.

There is one purpose to leaving them in rest mode - if a new TOE becomes available the unit must be in rest mode to adopt it. Your call on whether you want the unit updated to be able to acquire new devices (if they are even available).

[NigelKentarus]

I usually put a lot of permanently restricted West Coast units to Rest/Training (except HQ/Eng). My thinking is they don't use as much supply and, besides they're not going anywhere or being upgraded.

[SBD]

Does rest/training do anything to reduce the number of disrupted squads and devices?

[jdsrae]

You don’t need to worry about supply on the west coast.
That place is overflowing with steak and cold beer with ice cream and whiskey for dessert

[Alfred]

ORIGINAL: SBD

Does rest/training do anything to reduce the number of disrupted squads and devices?

Yes.

Alfred

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: jdsrae

You don’t need to worry about supply on the west coast.
That place is overflowing with steak and cold beer with ice cream and whiskey for dessert

Liquor on beer have no fear, beer on liquor get sicker quicker.[:D]

[SBD]

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: SBD

Does rest/training do anything to reduce the number of disrupted squads and devices?

Yes.

Alfred

Sorry, I meant to say "disabled" squads & devices

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: SBD

ORIGINAL: Alfred

ORIGINAL: SBD

Does rest/training do anything to reduce the number of disrupted squads and devices?

Yes.

Alfred

Sorry, I meant to say "disabled" squads & devices

Alfred's answer still applies. When the unit is stood down there are more people available to fix hardware or get new hardware ready to use. Troops can relax and recover from minor wounds faster too.

[WingCmdr]

Does Anyone read the Manual anymore?
Does Anyone do a forum search before typing?

[Disco Duck]

ORIGINAL: WingCmdr

Does Anyone read the Manual anymore?
Does Anyone do a forum search before typing?

No of course not.[:D]

[WingCmdr]

Dear ThreadStarter,

This subject is a little old, so my notes are incomplete. Perhaps you can share your findings and post some of the forum searches you have found, for future readers. The 5 star Matrix people, that helped you out above should be able to fill in with anything you have missed.

[WingCmdr]

Dear Matrix,

Two posts above the threadstarter expresses no interest in reading the players manual.

Should this sort of person be allowed to start a thread? At what point do you look at a thread starter and decide this person is not taking the subject matter seriously?

[BBfanboy]

ORIGINAL: WingCmdr

Dear Matrix,

Two posts above the threadstarter expresses no interest in reading the players manual.

Should this sort of person be allowed to start a thread? At what point do you look at a thread starter and decide this person is not taking the subject matter seriously?

Sez the guy who asked the forum a bunch of questions in his first AAR.
The manual has lots of info but it is often put in areas that I would never expect to find it and without an index entry for the keyword I would be searching. I.E. the manual writer's way of organizing things is not the way my head works so I find it difficult to use. Similarly, my searches seem to always come up empty.
There is also a lot of knowledge of the game's workings that have only been gained by discussion and input from genuine experts like Alfred. A few players also do controlled tests of situations to get data, although the question of sample size sometimes continues to leave the results in doubt.

So asking the question here seems to be fairly common after an unsuccessful search elsewhere. Matrix has no interest in policing how people get their info, but the moderator will chime in if flame wars start. Keeping communication open and cordial is the main concern.

[WingCmdr]

My point exactly. If a person has enough interest in a subject to start a thread than they should share the results of their findings with the forum.

Interested parties in the forum, who are thoroughly familiar with your statements, would like to start placing all the links in one location.



"I don't like paying for the same real estate twice"
- Famous Patton Misquote

[WingCmdr]

Disco Duck is discourteous to me and you defend this behavior?

Your first sentence shows your intent to create a hostile environment for me.

How Stupid is That?





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