To reconstitute or not to reconstitute.

[Martin Schenkel]

What are some of your opinions for scenario designers as to reconstitution rate? I find it sometimes frustrating in shorter timeframe scenarios that units can rebuild themselves so quickly. It often took months for a unit to rebuild itself back to combat form, drawing in reserves (perhaps from a second-line duplicate unit), training the new recruits, acustomizing the new commanders to larger scale maneouvres, etc. Surely scenarios shorter than 3-4 months would have very few rebuilt units returning into the meat grinder?

In larger strategic scenarios, often when one wants to disband reserve or lower quality units to bolster your front lines, the disbanded units return again shortly.

Perhaps the unit reconstitution option is under used by designers?

[Chuck?]

I agree that in shorter scenarios units are better off not reconstituting. Especially any scenario that only covers a month or less. To expect mostly fresh recruits to form a new unit in such a short time span doesn't really make sense.

[Bob Cross]

Originally posted by Martin Schenkel
What are some of your opinions for scenario designers as to reconstitution rate? I find it sometimes frustrating in shorter timeframe scenarios that units can rebuild themselves so quickly. It often took months for a unit to rebuild itself back to combat form, drawing in reserves (perhaps from a second-line duplicate unit), training the new recruits, acustomizing the new commanders to larger scale maneouvres, etc. Surely scenarios shorter than 3-4 months would have very few rebuilt units returning into the meat grinder?

In larger strategic scenarios, often when one wants to disband reserve or lower quality units to bolster your front lines, the disbanded units return again shortly.

Perhaps the unit reconstitution option is under used by designers?

Unit elimination is somewhat abstract in TOAW. It may not represent total elimination. Rather, it may represent the unit loosing cohesion. In that sense its quick return may just represent the original unit regaining cohesion, rather than a totally rebuilt unit.