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Good ericbabe. Casaulties were real.

My poor Stonewall Jackson almost always gets it, stone cold dead.  He is a marked man. [:(]
 
Chris
 
 

You know, we did consider putting something in the code so that generals who actually died during the war would have a better chance of dying in the game. Never got around to it, though... as far as I know [insert evil laugh here].

You know, we did consider putting something in the code so that generals who actually died during the war would have a better chance of dying in the game. Never got around to it, though... as far as I know [insert evil laugh here].

Hee hee hee. Stonewall has a target on him.[X(] Chris

ORIGINAL: mikeejay2

ON 9 OUT OF 11

NO ARTILLARY SHOT AT ME

3 IMPROVISED
4 MUSKETS
3 SPRINGFIELDS
AND THAT "DAMN" HENRY

TALK ABOUT DESTROYING MY MORALE LET ALONE MY TROOPS

While it certainly sounds like u got unlucky. I can give some player to player advice.
I have in my many many many detailed battles only lost 1 corps or higher commander.

I treasure those and will do every thing not to put them in harms way. The generals that i promote to those ranks are so high skilled so too valueble to die, IMO.

What i do through out a detailed battle is use the G key to move my corps+ commanders around all the time. Division commanders from time to time, but they are more a dim a dusin. Constandly reattach them to new units or supply wagons. So that they are never attached to a unit that will get high casulties. General casulties are base as a fraction of the casulties ur unit take in casulties. So by avoid having generals on units that takes casulties u never to rarely lose them.
If i for example move a line up and know im gona fire on another line i know im gona take heavy casulties. I reattach any general on that unit at leased if corps commader + to another unit.

This isnt totally free because u lose the firebonus that a general gives for being directly attached to a unit. But if im goan chose between possibly lose Grant / Lee or give another 50 men in casulties IMO such a general far outweighs that. So he is moved!
Said in a nutshell my generals arent very heroic [:D] but they live to tell the story.

Btw that damn Henry is most likely one of the Sharpshooter LUs. Those have an heigtend chance to kill generals. Very leathal, keep generals away from such units.

Hope it can help,

Rasmus

ORIGINAL: christof139

My poor Stonewall Jackson almost always gets it, stone cold dead.  He is a marked man. [:(]

Chris

I thought four-star generals couldn't be killed.

Only so in QC, they can in HW.

You know, we did consider putting something in the code so that generals who actually died during the war would have a better chance of dying in the game. Never got around to it, though... as far as I know [insert evil laugh here].

Gil R., you should have.