Disruption recovery

[Ricky B]

Yeah...I know for sure you have to be in your command range of your parent HQ...it doesnt have to be In Command though. I think your right about the patrolling unit receiving replacements. Think I noticed it once myself. And I am playing the Germans in Normandy, on turn 83 :) and I have a fair bit of wrecked flak units that are waiting for Army Group B to show up as that is their parent HQ.

Okay, I did a test on the unit being in command range, based on knowing that for years this was not needed. In my test, I setup an HQ with a command range of 5 hexes, then placed 2 subordinate units within the 5 hex range, and 2 more placed about 20 hexes away, thus out of command range. I also set the HQ to a 1 man strength. For the enemy side I added 2 units at 1 man, without an HQ at all, meaning they should automatically be in command range.

Ran the test, and the units outside of command range recovered losses just fine, as well as the units in command did. The HQ did also, and the enemy units without an HQ recovered losses.

I believe the confusion here, and is what Dog Soldier brought up, is that there is the new replacement rule, which allows a formation to have a replacement rate added to it in the OOB, in addition to the loss recovery that all units get. This is a new rule, not used in any PzC standard scenarios that are out as far as I can think of. This new rule does require the units involved to be in command range to get its replacements, but again does not apply to the old fashioned loss recovery - there is no need to be in command range to recover losses, per the original and still normal method of regaining strength.

Just remember, there is loss recovery, works as it always did, and the new replacement rule, which has a lot of different requirements to it.
Rick