Army Organization--How many career point?

[UtahSteel]

I am about to start Chickamauga and have 'Army Organizatio' set to '7' which limits brigades to 2,000 and 20 brigades per Corp...Looking at the Enemy Army size, it would seem I need a larger army...Should 'army organization' be maxed out eariler in game?

[ceutermark]

For Chickamauga i had AO at lvl 9 so i could have 6 brigades a divison and 2500 man infantry units because you can only use 2 corps for chickamauga and i think between my two corps i had about 80k with i think about 40 or 41k in each corps also i kept AO at lvl 6 till after stones river and only increased it on the run up to chancellorsville and by chickamauga i had AO 9 and only maxed out AO before richmond to make sure i had more than enough men for the final battle.

[Champin Playr]

As Confederates i played with 6 up to Gettysburg. After Gettysburg and Jackson i picked 9

[UtahSteel]

Thanks for replies.. that is good advice...I saw where I could have 25 brigades each corp and I could only field 20 with AO set at 7...another 10 brigades will make a huge difference in manpower and ability to flank or extend lines...

[amimai002]

Originally posted by bamajab:

Thanks for replies.. that is good advice...I saw where I could have 25 brigades each corp and I could only field 20 with AO set at 7...another 10 brigades will make a huge difference in manpower and ability to flank or extend lines...

no it wont XD

90% of the time only the first 10 brigades you have come into play, its better to keep those brigades trained and armed with the best weapons you can get your hands on and fill the rest with raw recruit skirmisher/cavalry battalions so you have something that can get to battle fast once the game finally allows you to field the second reinforcement brigades

my first division has 9000 elite troops, those 9000 troops usually land first and get 70% of the kills in the battle. The second brigade varies, one contains 1500 cavalry and 2000 skirmishers, the other contains 5000 infantry and 40 cannon(for battles where the 2 field together) it accounts for the other 20% of the kills I see in battle.

[kokopeli]

I don't recall all the steps, but I'm playing CSA as BG level at the moment. I raised my AO to 9 for Fredericksburg so I could have 24 unit strong Corps.

Before that I raised it to 7 for Sharpsburg so could have something like a fourth Corps, can't remember now.

Before that I raised it to 5 at 2nd Manassas so I could have more units as well. I remember putting some points into it before 1st Manassas so I could have 4 brigades in my Division at that battle, then found out they don't have to belong to the same Division to fight in the battle. I can't recall if I put any in before Shiloh, Gaines Mill or Malvern Hill.

First priority in Politics, then Medicine while keeping AO high enough. I think it will be economics next.