Q: Upgrading units...

[Palmerdale]

Playing Italy, I quickly cleaned up the initial war and moved a couple of corps of Militia back to Italy to refit them. I changed several to Motorized, and a number into Mountain Infantry and shipped them out for other duties.

One odd thing I noticed is that the upgrade occurs via the production, but starting the upgrade requires units to be connected by road (not navy) to Rome. The unit is marked with a yellow corner signifying that 1 or more brigades are being updated. My question is, what happens if I move the units before the upgrade process finishes? I didn't try it (the upgrades were already finished and I was out of the game before I thought of this). I would expect the production on those brigades to stop, with maybe some kind of out-of-range notification to alert me of the problem.

Any thoughts?

 

[yamato2cz]

Playing Italy, I quickly cleaned up the initial war and moved a couple of corps of Militia back to Italy to refit them. I changed several to Motorized, and a number into Mountain Infantry and shipped them out for other duties.

One odd thing I noticed is that the upgrade occurs via the production, but starting the upgrade requires units to be connected by road (not navy) to Rome. The unit is marked with a yellow corner signifying that 1 or more brigades are being updated. My question is, what happens if I move the units before the upgrade process finishes? I didn't try it (the upgrades were already finished and I was out of the game before I thought of this). I would expect the production on those brigades to stop, with maybe some kind of out-of-range notification to alert me of the problem.

Any thoughts?

unit just vanishes. you will have to deploy it upon upgrading by that deploy screen as any other new unit

 

[Palmerdale]

What would happen if you only upgraded 2 of the 3 brigades in that unit? Would the updated brigades be independent brigades, or would they into the deployment queue as a single unit? What happens if the brigades finish the update cycle before another?

Scenario: A unit with 3xMil brigades is brought back for upgrades. Brigade 1 is updated to Motorized Infantry, and Brigade 2 is updated to an Infantry, and Brigade 3 is left alone (to keep a placeholder unit on the map along with the chain of command). When Brigade 2 is updated, Brigade 3 is upgraded to an Infantry. As it is now, the unit remains in map and the brigades upgrade in place.

 

[browd]

Each brigade appears separately in the production queue and can finish at different times (based on build times for the upgrade unit (e.g., motorized taking longer than infantry), their queue priority and applicable practicals), and rejoin their division as they complete.

 

[Kovax]

You can move the division by road without problems while parts of it are upgrading (and absent), but if you move it overseas, the rebuilt brigades won't be able to rejoin it.