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ORIGINAL: ericbabe

Artillery screening is handled as in Crown of Glory: an enemy unit adjacent to one of your formed infantry units cannot charge one of your artillery/supply units.  This lets infantry protect artillery from nearby hexes.

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Okay, I checked the manual (now the the relevant part of the manual is written), so here's the deal with March Attrition. Infantry and artillery brigades serving in "container units" (= divisions/corps/army) that have a Logistics Rating of "Fair" or worse will lose 5% strength per province. (I had wrongly said 5% per march.) If the governing logistics staff is rated "Good," "Great" or "Excellent" then attrition is only 2.5%, and "Superb" leads to no losses. Such land movement also has a chance to lower unit's disposition.

This is one of those things that can easily be changed once the game is out -- we'd certainly entertain arguments in favor of lower (or higher?) rates of attrition.

ORIGINAL: genie144

What is this weather gage that allowed the CSA to be victorious?

Sam

To have the weather gage describes the favorable position of a sailing vessel relative to another with respect to the wind. The term is from the Age of Sail, and is now antiquated. It is any position upwind of the other vessel. An upwind vessel is able to maneuver at will toward any downwind point, since in doing so the relative wind moves aft. A vessel downwind of another, however, in attempting to attack upwind, is constrained to trim sail as the relative wind moves forward and cannot point too far into the wind for fear of being headed. In sailing warfare, when beating to windward, the vessel heels under the sideward pressure of the wind. This restricts gunnery, as cannon on the windward side are now elevated, while the leeward gun ports aim into the sea, or in heavy weather may be awash. A ship with the weather gage, turning downwind to attack, may alter course at will in order to bring starboard and port guns to appropriate elevations.

ORIGINAL: Oldguard

Gil, at first blush your numbers strike me as very reasonable and realistic. Most every wargaming analysis I've ever read puts normal attrition in that same ballpark - in dire, hazardous environments attrition can even exceed combat losses.

The key appears to be having a good logistics infrastructure and staff. I'm assuming we can build things to help with the infrastructure - is there a way to enhance the staff and management part of the equation?

ORIGINAL: Lava

Hi Gil,

I think I have a pretty good understanding of what a "container" is, but could you expand on exactly what it is and its importance in FOF?

Thanks.

Ray (alias Lava)

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Containers all have Logistics and Command ratings, which affect the performance of the contained units.

ORIGINAL: Lava
At the risk of sounding a bit dense..

I would imagine that the containers ratings are based on the units you put in them, for example, a good general. But the way I read your posts it seems that the container "itself" can also have its own characteristics. Is this due to research and if so can you expand a little bit on that?