Posted by: nuclearslurpee
« on: Today at 08:40:26 AM »A quick question. I set up my ground military without really paying attention to my officers, and just set it to auto-assign. When I went back and checked it I realized that that was a mistake, as the base level unit was set to too high a rank and the rank structure was all screwed up. So I went in to the ground forces screen, formation template tab, and manually reset the ranks for the various units to the rank that I needed it to be to make the rank structure work. I assumed that officer auto-assign would take care of the shake up over time so went back to focusing on other things. However, there was no real change. I then decided to manually assign officers of the appropriate rank to the correct ground commands, but Aurora won't let me. The base level battalion unit can be assigned to the lowest ranking officer, but the next level HQ is requiring a rank two levels higher than what I've set in the Formation Templates screen to be assigned.
Example:
Battalion, required rank is major, actual required rank is major
Brigade, required rank is lieutenant colonel, actual required rank is lieutenant colonel
Division, required rank is colonel, actual required rank is major general
Corps, required rank is brigadier general, actual required rank is lieutenant general
I've saved and closed, advanced time, waited for it to work itself out, to no avail. I assume that I'm doing something wrong, rather than this being a bug.
For already existing ground formations there is a button to change the required rank for the selected formation on the Order of Battle tab. Bottom-right I think.
Don't feel bad as you're not the first person to miss this button. I suspect it works this way because once built, a formation is not tied to its build template (which would otherwise specify the rank) aside from the replacements mechanic, since formations can lose units or have them added to make a custom OOB. Ground unit are quite different from ships in this way.
