Campaign Map Help

[Bandito]

Hi all,

The manual didn't seem to specify on this particularly. I noticed that one can pretty much click on any part of the campaign map and execute a battle. However, if there are no battlegroups in the particular area, then no game effect right? What if you move a battlegroup into a space that is controlled by the opponent, but with no enemy battlegroups? Does going into battle do anything then?

I do remember reading in the manual that it is vital to capture the connecting points on a map: ie, the other side of the map that is normally where a road ends. Does this apply in any of the above cases that I listed? This pretty much applies to any of the Close Combat games, but I posted here as it's the latest release and the one I recently purchased.

[Senior Drill]

If there are no BG's on a map, then there can't be a battle there, correct. If you move on to a map that has no enemy BG and one does not move there to check you, you will gain control of the map and all the VL's.

If an enemy BG also moves to an unoccupied map in the same movement phase that you do, there will be a Meeting Engagement battle (deploy areas near their entry/exit VL).

If you move to a map that has an enemy BG or an enemy BG moves to the map your BG occupies, then a battle will take place with the moving unit attacking (small deploy area) and the static unit defending (most of the rest of the map as deploy area).

It is not normally necessary to gain the VL's on the opposite edge from your deployment as there are usually several exit VL's, each leading to a different map. If you have control of the exit VL that you want to use to move to a different map, you can under certain conditions.

[Bandito]

Thank you very much for the answer. This helps.

I've found that one can in fact have a battle anywhere, though, at least as of Wacht am Rhein whether there's a battlegroup in there or not. In the Longest Day, I did move a battlegroup to a territory unoccupied by the Germans. The territory went green so I think I took it, although I could go into battle and fight. I won the battle, took some victory locations, but nothing seemed to have occured. So I was wondering if these little battles were simply an extension of choosing an individual battle in the Battle Only mode, allowing one to view the map of a possible fight and practice.