American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

HPS allows for the loss of stragglers as a result of a routed infantry or cavalry unit failing to pass a morale check.



So do the stragglers return to the unit in subsequent battles of a campaign, or are they gone forever?

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General Jos. C. Meyer, ACWGC
Union Army Chief of Staff
Commander, Army of the Shenandoah
Commander, Army of the Tennessee
(2011-2014 UA CoA/GinC)

In the linked campaigns they do - the exact rate is set in the campaign - for example in Vicksburg it is 28% -so that if you lose a unit entirely you get it back in the next scenario (assuming it is present in that scenarios OOB file ) you get the unit back at 28% of its full strength amount.

However in the regular old battles, I don't believe they do; I know that prior to Overland they did not, and the Overland web site info posted at JTS does not mention it as a change so I assume that it still doesn't.

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~Retired~

We tried to get replacements for some of the longer scenarios, but did not, unfortunately.

The game has some built in losses that act like stragglers but it does not keep track of them separately. So that is no "straggler" recovery but there is a built in recovery of casualties in the Campaigns.

Campaign Loss Recover is a straight percentage of all casualties and here are the numbers I have from the last time someone published them. The recover percentage is based on days since previous scenario:

10% for 1-6 days
20% for 7-17 days
30% for 14-30 days
40% for 31-59 days
50% for 60+ days

I am not sure how round off occurs but the few checks I have made indicate the South has an advantage with those little one gun batteries because they always come back.

I don't think the game tracks anything but scenario to scenario. Also I haven't verified how it measures casualties. That is, relative full strength, which is what I suspect, or losses during last battle.

Here is what "I think" happens:

First scenario of campaign a unit loses 90% of its force. 1000 men reduced to 100.
Next scenario which occurs three days later the regiment will be at 190 strength.
That scenario it loses 50% of its force so strength is 95.
Next scenario is two weeks later (20% recovery). The new strength is 276.

But this is really tedious to verify.

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General Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
AoT II/1/3 (CSA)