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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

If you can let me know which locations you think are affected I will see if they have alternatives, and if not I will add some.

ORIGINAL: OldCrowBalthazor

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Just take a peak in the War Room...Montenegro Gambit Test 1 and 2. That will illustrate why this question is being asked.

ORIGINAL: Bavre

ORIGINAL: OldCrowBalthazor

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Just take a peak in the War Room...Montenegro Gambit Test 1 and 2. That will illustrate why this question is being asked.

I did no M-gambit in this game here, just saying. However, good to be notorious [8D]

On the actual topic:
I have asked this myself, plus the related question wether it's better to overrun those deployment points or wait and ambush the units as they pop up.

ORIGINAL: mdsmall

In my current game playing the Entente, the CP player is following an opening strategy against Russia based in part on capturing the hexes on which Russian units mobilize ("spawn") in the later turns of the game. From my reading of the relevant Decision Events in the Editor, it looks like these units will not show up in other locations unless they are specified in the original Decision Event ( and mostly, they are not, as only one hex is specified per unit). But I think they might still show up if I recapture the spawning hexes at some later date in the game. Is this correct? Or if their designated mobilization points are captured by the enemy, are these units lost forever?

ORIGINAL: shri

One way to avoid all this confusion would be to give all troops mobilising after the first round, to mobilise as deployments instead of on actual HEXES.

ORIGINAL: mdsmall

ORIGINAL: mdsmall

In my current game playing the Entente, the CP player is following an opening strategy against Russia based in part on capturing the hexes on which Russian units mobilize ("spawn") in the later turns of the game. From my reading of the relevant Decision Events in the Editor, it looks like these units will not show up in other locations unless they are specified in the original Decision Event ( and mostly, they are not, as only one hex is specified per unit). But I think they might still show up if I recapture the spawning hexes at some later date in the game. Is this correct? Or if their designated mobilization points are captured by the enemy, are these units lost forever?

I have discovered a new example of Russian units that never show up if their initial mobilization is disrupted. In my current game, to avoid the German pincers moves in the East (depicted above) I retreated my Russian forces in the opening turns to defend a line in front of Vilno and Minsk, abandoning Brest-Litovsk. Normally, at the beginning of the fourth Entente turn on September 19, DE 401 fires, giving the Russians the choice of having two Caucasian mountain corps either mobilize around Brest-Litovsk for 50 MPPs, or mobilize at Alexandropol and Tiflis in the Caucasus for free. But if Brest-Litovsk is not in Entente hands on September 15, 1914 then DE401 does not fire, and the two mountain corps never show up.

This strikes me as a glitch. I can understand why Russian corps scheduled to mobilize in Poland might not show up if their mobilization points are captured by the Central Powers (although as the Entente player, I would prefer it if they mobilized somewhere else in Russia as a fall-back). But I don't see why Caucasian corps that under a DE could be transferred to Poland would not still mobilize in their home points in the Caucasus if Brest-Litovsk is not in Russian hands. Was this intended? and if not, could it be fixed in the next patch?

ORIGINAL: Bavre

Ah that's why Kars was empty!

On a general note:
I never understood why this deployment mechanic is there in the first place. We already have the deployment via the production queue which can, if needed, be constrained to certain locations. Seems to me there are two mechanics here, which do exactely the same thing and one of them is just plain inferior.