Do you play detailed battles?

[Jam_USMC]

Still waiting for the day when we can play a game with Fof type strategy and TC2M type tactical battles.......................................................I'm only in my thirties.

[terje439]

I always play detailed battles, as IMHO the best tactic for the CSA is to eliminate as many union battalions as possible, and this is best done in detailed battle.
Surround-attack-accept their surrender, repeat. Although the north have a better capacity for producing troops it does not matter as long as I am able to force some 5-10 battalions to surrender every turn.

About the ability to setup before the battle...
I feel that said ability is poor at best (sorry but my honest oppinion). If I could place each battalion myself instead of having to move them a division at a time it would be better, the reason being that when I move my div's, the AI seems to believe that I want to place my supply unit as a spearhead (aka front unit)...Beside the battalions of the moved Div gets way too stacked IMHO.

[Gil R.]

I rarely use group-move, so I haven't observed this business of the supply getting out front. Are others experiencing this regularly, too? If so, it makes sense to see if that can be changed.

[terje439]

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

I rarely use group-move, so I haven't observed this business of the supply getting out front.

Is there any other way to move them "pre battle" than moving the entire division? That is all I am allowed to do atleast, if I move the first active unit of a Div, than all its units are moved to its location as well.
And not sure if this is working as intended or if it is a bug, but when about to chose a starting location for a Div, if I right-click (so that the active unit changes standing), I get to place my Divs furter up the front. If battles are set to "close" this allows me to place my Divs behind the enemy troops. Well an easy way to capture those yank brigades, but seems kinda wrong to me thou.

Terje

[ericbabe]

With the "near start" option, the division move at the start of battle should move your troops behind your own other starting troops, not behind enemy troops.  The only other complaints we've had about this behavior is that when you reposition them they end up being too far *back* from the main line, not too far forward, though I can imagine there might be situations in which they are sometimes too forward.