how not to attack the defended

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red is where the Federal forces will be, blue is where i will be coming from and the blue line is where i'll be forming up and assaulting the heights and defenders from, poor choice of terrain for me, and i'll be lucky to survive the attacks

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4, move to range with advance to by brigade move orders, then once there, change to assault for close in range attack, staying in formation and in regiments by brigades in line with skirmishes out, no charge or mass charge orders, as the units in the heights haven't been pre weakened so won't budge, my gun's are in support and all are in command radius

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5, out of range to all but lucky and cannon fire i move one more time then change brigade orders to assault for the close in work

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6, while all my moves go as planned and i'm fully in place for the next turn attack, i'm too weak to fully manage to do anything at all as i don't have the force modifier to push off units from this sort of defences no matter how i try from a frontal assault, with or without gun support, i need more men, lots more

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7, while the men change to assault and get in line, they know it's might not be a mountain they have to climb, but it might as well be

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8, the first assault / attack goes in, with high loss for little gain tbh

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9, and the first unit surrenders, doesn't like the heat and leaves the kitchen

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10, the men won't last as the slaughter continues as this rate with the losses of men and morale gain pace

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11, as i break through gaps in the line, the CSA / AI counters me

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12, i push to hard and some of my men rout, won't be the 1st of last in this battle tbh

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13, the CSA counter and more of my men fall back and rout

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14, 2nd unit surrenders and 2 more rout, battle is almost over before it has almost begun, this is why frontal assaults don't work

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wont be long before my morale fail and i lose so i pull back and retreat before i lose the whole command, as i capture some guns my whole attack / assault fails and i fall back in full retreat and as the run becomes a rout i resign the game

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those guns cost one regiment almost 300 men, the cost is too high, the butchers bill to much to pay, defeat is staring me in the face, and a frontal attack fails, but while the commander lives, most of his men under his command doesn't and defeat is a bitter sweet pill to swallow

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the shame knows no bounds

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while it seems i could have done better, i couldn't have done any worse

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and i have been beaten, and thrown off the battle field in disgrace

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know the ground,
when and when not to fight,
and when you can't move forward,
go around

learn the lessons commander, and learn them well, or your men won't live to tell the tale[&o][&o][&o]