Editing VB-Ground Combat (section)

===Commanders===
Ground Forces Officers may be assigned to command ground units (Leaders window, Leader Type->Ground Forces Officers). Leaders must be of rank 2 to command brigade headquarters (HQs) and rank 3 to command division HQs.


'''Ground Combat Bonus:'''

An officer's Ground Combat Bonus improves the attack and defence strengths of the unit (s)he commands and all subordinate units. This bonus is always applied fully; a divisional commander applies his full bonus to all units in the division. Ground Combat Bonuses stack, and so a unit subordinate to both a division and brigade commander can get bonuses from its own officer (at 100%), the brigade commander (100%), and the division commander (100%). Additional bonuses are detailed below.

Units in a brigade (including the brigade HQ) subordinate to a division HQ get an additional combat bonus (in %) equal to the product of the combat bonuses (again, in %) of both division and brigade leaders, divided by 10<nowiki>0.</nowiki> Therefore, units commanded by a divisional commander with a bonus of 20% and a brigade commander with a bonus of 10% will get a 20% + 10% + (20%*10%/100 = 2%) = 32% bonus.

Units commanded by three officers - divisional commander, brigade commander, and individual unit leader - get an additional bonus approximately equal to 30%-60% (depending on divisional and brigade commander bonuses) of the unit leader's bonus.

'''Ground Forces Training Rating'''

The morale of ground units may increase over time, based on the Ground Forces Training Rating of their brigade and division commanders. 

Every non-HQ unit is checked every 5-day increment. Those that have at least 100 morale (i.e. have fully recovered from combat) and are on the same planet as their Brigade Headquarters have a chance of morale increase. The base annual chance of increase is equal to the Ground Forces Training Rating of the Brigade commander. If the parent Division HQ of the Brigade HQ is also on the same planet, half the Ground Forces Training Rating of the Division commander is added to the chance of increase. If the Morale of the ground unit is above 100, the chance of morale increase is reduced by double the amount of morale exceeding 10<nowiki>0.</nowiki> 

This does not applies to battalions, Brigade HQs and Division HQs that are on board ships or in PDCs. So a battalion in a PDC cannot gain morale from training and a battalion on a planetary surface outside a PDC cannot gain morale from training if the Brigade HQ is on a ship or in a PDC.
-- Steve Walmsley, from post http://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php/topic,2308.<nowiki>0.</nowiki>html