Army Recovery

[Darman]

Okay, so for naval units we have to pay the repair cost to fix them.  But for army units do we have to pay a repair cost or simply maintain them at a mobilized or fighting mobilized level for a further half-year while they re-gain manpower and equipment levels at a set rate? (say 25% per half-year). 

[Walter]

I would think that if your Corps has lost a brigade worth of men and equipment, you would have to pay the cost of a brigade to get it back up to full strength. But that is just how I see it.

[Darman]

I would think that if your Corps has lost a brigade worth of men and equipment, you would have to pay the cost of a brigade to get it back up to full strength. But that is just how I see it.

For ships we pay 1/2 price in cash and 1/4 price in BP to repair damage.  Shouldn't it be roughly the same for army units?  We pay upkeep on them, so they should have depot units back home that can forward drafts of men, and are always forwarding drafts of men, men who might have been on leave, replacements for men who retired... come up with whichever reasons you want.  I mean the costs are negligible anyways (at least when using 1/4 corps units like the barbarian South Americans do). 

[Walter]

The reason I said that was because with a ship, you add something to repair the damage. With an army unit, you cannot repair the soldiers who have been killed in battle...

... unless you turn them into zombies. :o

[Darman]

... unless you turn them into zombies. :o

We can do that????! 

*The Ottoman Empire recruits an army of all the soldiers who have died in Allah's service throughout history and takes over the world in the Caliph's name* muah-ha-ha!!!!

[Darman]

The reason I said that was because with a ship, you add something to repair the damage. With an army unit, you cannot repair the soldiers who have been killed in battle...

On a more serious note.... upkeep for an additional half-year at mobilized status should take care of personnel issues.  The payments in both cash and BP, in my opinion, are for equipment.  For backpacks, boots, uniforms.  For rifles and machineguns and horses and wagons and cannon.  Things that take time to produce.  To make a replacement you take a kid off the street and send him to the front-lines.  Maybe he gets a few weeks training.  Now the British Army is an exception, but more or less, at this point in time, that is going to be the case.