1 point = 200 men. The most likely arrangements for land units would be regimental (2000 to 3000) or divisional (~10000) men. You can spend up to three times the point cost of a division on training and regular infantry equipment, and up to six times on artillery.Rawtooth wrote:Okay, I can't make head nor tails of the infantry system. Could someone explain it to me?
To simplify, here are some examples.
1. A division of irregulars levied with minimal training and armed with a clutter of elderly small arms.
Each body of 200 men at minimum quality costs 1 point, thus 10000 men cost 50 points.
2. A division of well-trained infantry equipped with modern bolt-action magazine rifles.
200 best quality men cost 3 points, thus 10000 men costs you 150 points.
3. A division of guards infantry equipped with modern bolt-action magazine rifles and carrying horse-drawn artillery (including maxim guns).
200 best quality men with organic field artillery cost 6 points, thus 10000 men costs 300 points (or the same as a battleship).
Cavalry works the same way, but at default they are four times as expensive. Their only real advantage is that they're way faster on the ground. Logic suggests that good men ahorse would be pretty good at police duties and breaking up minimum-quality opponents, but against anything capable of organized volley fire they'd be screwed.
A few notes:
The technology and knowledge base is around 1890, so we won't really appreciate things like "lolz my generals are so smart that they create WWI-style fortifications automatically". People don't know how to do that yet, especially in an up-and-coming former backwater like the Indian Ocean. Machineguns, for example, are deployed like artillery pieces--in wheeled gun carriages.
The basic 50-point division is capable of keeping order, manning fortifications, and so forth. However, battle artillery rules the field and a 300-point division will hammer bargain-priced opponents unmercifully. If you save pennies on your army and a division of Omani Republican Army regulars makes landfall on your coast, it'll hurt. On the other hand, for the same price as I paid for each division you could buy a whole battleship, which is probably more immediately valuable in light of how important sea control is on the map we're using.
My army is weighted at the most professional end of the scale and consumes a pretty large portion of my budget, for RP reasons. Your army is likely to both be less expensive in general and less professional/well equipped in particular.
They were randomly assigned, he got lucky.Edit: And Chewbaca gets six resources?
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