Generals/Admirals dying?

[Sarosh]

Casual player here. Never paid attention to my CAGs and just assumed that they'd be fine if the carrier was fine; lost them somewhere along the way of invading Japan as the US. Then I noticed that their wing leaders had vanished from my general list. Can division commanders actually die? I couldn't find anything in the wiki about it, and I found an older thread where someone was talking about losing admirals if their subs sink, but nothing concrete.

 

[j_k_k]

I would assume that if somehow you managed to make your CAGs ditch at sea because there was no eligible carrier or airbase in range, you'd lose the leader. I suspect you'd also lose an air general if somehow the enemy wiped out the whole air wing, which is pretty hard unless one sends up a lone weakened air unit.

 

[marxianTJ]

In hoi2 there was actually a chance that your land generals would die in combat. It could happen to anybody.


In this game I don't think there's any way for land generals to die. In Hoi2, they'd be gone forever if their division went down at sea in a transport, got surrounded, or sometimes randomly during battles. In hoi3, land generals can definitely be surrounded, only to come back on the roster, and I'm *pretty* sure if their division goes down at sea, they're fine. Sometimes they die by design though (some generals have end dates - you can find them on the wiki).

In hoi3, Air generals die if their entire wing is destroyed. Naval generals die if their entire fleet is sunk.

Again, you can also lose generals by design - some of them have "end dates" where they retire/die - usually tied to historical events, and sometimes arbitrarily.

 

[markkur]

Naval generals die if their entire fleet is sunk.

Had something weird happen with that. Two CV fleets found and sunk one of my Wolfpacks and I received the pop-up, then the admiral but no subs attached. It showed that white arrow for fleeing... and then went black. I wish I'd thought to look in my officer inventory. I'll take a look anyway. Might be I saw the script working to save the Admiral and then delete the admiral. <L>

 

[Kovax]

That's a case where the entire fleet was destroyed. Next hour, the fleet and admiral would be deleted from the roster. You can't attach or detach an admiral while the fleet is at sea, so once he's committed to battle, he's vulnerable.