I play GER 36 with old guard remove -event. In 39, I already have about 90 units, but stil only 2 FMs, 1Gen... I have a feeling, that no land-leader got promoted, since I turned the autopromotion on. Any experiences with that?
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I just finished a 1.3 Beta 2 game as the Germans. Don't worry, the promotions roll in about 1940.
With the default Germany Promotion Levels you should have 1.8 Feld Marchals and 2.79 Generals
Autopromotion is working correctly in Beta 2.
Make sure that the commanders that you want promoted are in active commands... they get priority.
Make sure that the commanders that you want promoted are in active commands... they get priority.
Not always. Playing USA, I often see Vadms with active commands whom I want promoted while in the pool others have been promoted to Adm.
Naval and air leaders get autpromoted when they are NOT in command, while land commanders get autopromoted when they are in command. Different rules.
90 land divisions mean that you have hardly built anything [30 more div approximately], so autopromotions will be few until you build more divisions. Even when building lots of infantry divisions which significantly increases my land div count, it takes a while for Guderian et al to get an autopromotion to Lt Gen.
90 land divisions mean that you have hardly built anything [30 more div approximately], so autopromotions will be few until you build more divisions. Even when building lots of infantry divisions which significantly increases my land div count, it takes a while for Guderian et al to get an autopromotion to Lt Gen.
Btw, playing as Germany some leaders sometimes get auto promoted above their "cap". Like Blaskowitz pretty often get auto promoted to FM, even though his ideal rank is 1 and his "rank 0 year" is 1990. This happens sometimes even though I have other generals (like von Weichs, von Kleist, Busch, von Küchler etc) who should get promoted to FM in 1942 or 1943. I haven't noticed this before 1.3... Does anybody know why this is this happening?
Perhaps, I have no idea how it works really. I assumed rank year determine when the auto promoter promotes a leader.
It doesn't.
The BEST WAY to get all your good mj. generals promoted to lt. general is to promote all your current crappy lt. generals or FMs or generals. Just keep promoting the lt. generals until your mj. generals get promoted to lt. general. This way you have to promote to generals and FMs manually, but even if you didn't do this you would only get maybe 4-5 free general promotions and maybe 1-2 FM promotions as Germany for the entire war. Being able to control and get as many free lt. general promotions as you want far outweighs the cost though.
I generally end up with the 'elite' German generals (Rommel, Model, Hausser, von Kleist, Guderian - the guys leading my panzer armies) auto-promoted to general at least (often Field Marshal) by 1942. Although I also use the old guards retire event too.
As I played further, the leaders got promoted one-by-one. So it's working. It was me, who expected, when switching autopromotions on, all the leaders who are in queue autopromote, will autopromote immedietly. It doesn't happens immedietly, it takes some time (even without building new units).
I don't get why people disband the old guards since most of them have logistic wizards and defence doctrines, stuff that you use for garrison duty.
As Germany you have so many generals that you can have all your garrison duty commanders with defensive doctrine or logisitics wizard anyway and by clearing out the old guards from senior ranks (generals and field marshals especially) it clears the way for the high quality German commanders to quickly rush through the ranks.
It actually does have an effect.
A general with a promotion date of 1940 for Lt. General will not autopromote until then even if he is eligible and the next one in line.