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While playing a hotseat game as the British, I sent a force to take Fort Western. This force consists of two groups. One group consists of one regiment of infantry and a half a dozen heavy cannon batteries; the other has two regiments of infantry.

There are two issues, first, the fort is under-garrisoned (it only has two guns) and it is my understanding that an under-garrisoned fort does not need to be sieged in order to assault it. However, I cannot just assault it.

Second, going on the assumption that I miss-understood the minimum garrison requirements, I placed the two groups in a position to lock the siege and commenced to bombard the fort. Having reduced the walls from 3 to 1, I commenced to attempt to assault it; however, the game would not allow. And, even though several turns passed with the walls remaining a strength of 1, I am still unable to assault and, now, my forces are running out of readiness and supply.

The situation continues, after finally sending in a brand new army, I was able to take the fort. However, the Americans sent a large force in before I was able to rebuild the walls [1(3)] and were unable to assault. As stated above, I thought that a fort could be assaulted if its walls were down to a one.

What gives? Do you need game files?

Thanks in advance.

Mark

Mark,

Sorry for missing this, there are enough forums and threads that at times things slip through. You can always e-mail us directly at support@matrixgames.com if you have an issue you wish to report.

I'll ask the developer to look into this.

Regards,

- Erik

Erik,
 
Thank you. I was beginning to wonder.
 
Regards,
Mark

I found what I believe to be an answer to my assaulting an under-garrisoned fort. In the 1848 rules it indicates that the storming force must contain at least 3000 men and the under-garrisoned force contain less than 300.
 
I am finding that the main problem with this very good game system is the lack of documentation in the rules.
 
Regards,
Mark