Thanks for the quick responses. I'll try instant and see if it works better in those situations. I can always use detailed, of course, but I've learned that a detailed battle with that many brigades can take a whole evening!

<t> Getting back into this game after a few years and a couple of issues I've run into. Hope someone is still reading this and can help.<br/>
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1) During quick combat setup, the rules say I'm supposed to be able to put up to 36 brigades on the map - one for each square in the charge, attack ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Akmatov<br/>
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Just a quick thought about Southern treatment of prisoners. Being a prisoner of a society where the soldiers and civilians are on a starvation diet is not a good thing. Nor is being guarded by the dregs of the society that aren't even wanted in ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ericbabe<br/>
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I personally like the random rule, as it makes it harder to game the National Morale rules, but I'm open to general input on this subject.<br/>

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I can see that, but perhaps it could be weighted - that would ...

<r> 1796 game, playing as France. Austria fell quickly and the ruthlessly opportunistic Russians, Prussians, and Swedes decided to pile on Britain. This led to the division, distraction and partial destruction of the British fleet which meant I could land a decent army in Scotland and eventually ...

<t> To be fair, at least CoG has much more realistic victory conditions than most popular games - instead of turning the whole map blue or red, your task is to become the dominant power in Europe.<br/>
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It always bugged me in, say, the Total War games when my English were recruiting archers ...

<r> Impressive, yes, but not enough.<br/>
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I was brought up in the Cult of Lee and still find the man very admirable in many ways. But ultimately, his strategic vision fell short. Gettysburg wasn't a plan to win the war, it was a gesture. Lee could not hit on any strategy that, if ...

<t> Most wars end when one side decides it is beaten, not when all capability of active resistance is physically beaten down&nbsp;- WW2 in Europe was exceptional.<br/>
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Unfortunately, this subjective process often gives rise to decades of wrangling over the true nature and meaning of ...

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There ought to be a limit to the number of men you can have under arms.
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There ought to be diminishing returns and economies of scale - the 10th artillery unit you raise should cost more than the 1st, and ...

<t> Start the game over. (You did save your setup, didn't you? If not, you should save a setup for the TE and a couple for the CP depending on what strategy you want to use. You can use them as templates for further games and just tweak your standard setup rather than having to do it all again.)<br ...

<t> "The attachment box is the little window that pops up on the main map. I forget the exact mouseclick that opens it (I don't have my COG stuff on this computer to look it up...I can do it naturally while I'm playing -- I think it's something like CTRL+right-click). You should be able to select ...

Assuming you aren't allied to Russia, are you already at war with another nation that is at war with them? The game doesn't allow 3-way wars.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: ericbabe<br/>
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There are a few small provinces (Brunswick, Mecklenberg, Corsica, etc.) in which sometimes all of the units that exist there do not display properly. You can select these units by opening the Attachment Box for the entire province.
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Don't know how I missed that; thanks.

I guess at the time I assumed that when my allies sounded the retreat it went for my forces too. Apparently not (which is good).

<t> The first time I lost a detailed battle I was fighting alongside a greater number of allied troops. When the retreat was sounded their troops promptly routed off the map leaving me to face the music. At this point I realized I had no idea - and the manual didn't say - how to retreat off the map ...

<t> I've been playing CoG obsessively for a couple of weeks now and have run across one definite bug I haven't seen addressed here (lately, anyway) and another I suspect is a bug as well.<br/>
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The first is that in a few games one province turns into a black hole - units of any type, even ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: FrankHunter<br/>
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I have a save of a supply issue concerning the city of Athens (fixed) but if there's other supply issues please tell me and I will check them out asap. Thanks!<br/>
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Thanks. The one I had turned out ...

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the "new gold master" - does that just mean the latest version?

Great news about the manuals!

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Well Britain's incentive to enter WW1 was as much about the economic perspective and dependence upon French and Russian support in the far east to keep the trade flowing and their Empire intact than concern for violation of Belgian neutrality ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: boogada<br/>
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Yes we had this problem in a game, and thats why we have no updated to 1.21. Frank Hunter has been informed.<br/>
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Its covered here I think:<br/>
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