Death of a Leader
Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2017 7:29 pm
I have restarted work on my 100 days campaign and have reached a stage where the Battle of Ligny has been completed. I am evaluating the results and am currently thinking about how to handle the situation where a Leader has been reported as dead. In this context I am interested to know the current impact when this happens during a scenario. I assume that the replacement leader who appears will have some loss of leadership/experience abilities. Is this the same in every case i.e. do replacement leaders all have the same values?
My current thinking is that I do not want to replace dead leaders for subsequent battles with a newly named person as that would be both more work in terms of modifying OOB's and scenario.csv files and be potentially confusing for someone already familiar with officer's names and positions in the OOB. I plan to keep the same name but reduce his leadership/experience abilities to reflect a person new in the post.
I do not think it would be right just to reduce the abilities to whatever level currently happens during a scenario as that would have been an emergency replacement by whomever was conveniently to hand. There is notionally a day or two between battles in my campaign so a more considered substitute should be possible. I am thinking therefore of creating a random factor to reflect loss of experience with the in scenario values providing a base level and the previous officer's stats being the maximum.
I notice in the casualty results report that officers are described as "Dead" but never classed as wounded - does "Dead" notionally include wounded so should some of the "Dead" legitimately be brought back to life? Could someone explain what the category "Lost" means - would some "Lost" Officers perhaps be wounded?
Regards
Mike
My current thinking is that I do not want to replace dead leaders for subsequent battles with a newly named person as that would be both more work in terms of modifying OOB's and scenario.csv files and be potentially confusing for someone already familiar with officer's names and positions in the OOB. I plan to keep the same name but reduce his leadership/experience abilities to reflect a person new in the post.
I do not think it would be right just to reduce the abilities to whatever level currently happens during a scenario as that would have been an emergency replacement by whomever was conveniently to hand. There is notionally a day or two between battles in my campaign so a more considered substitute should be possible. I am thinking therefore of creating a random factor to reflect loss of experience with the in scenario values providing a base level and the previous officer's stats being the maximum.
I notice in the casualty results report that officers are described as "Dead" but never classed as wounded - does "Dead" notionally include wounded so should some of the "Dead" legitimately be brought back to life? Could someone explain what the category "Lost" means - would some "Lost" Officers perhaps be wounded?
Regards
Mike