Lee did not have an army level artillery reserve at that point. Pendleton was technically in command of the army artillery, but was in fact an administrator who exercised no field command. The leaders you name commanded the artillery of the separate corps. You can call them divisions, but they real...

When Napoleon was confronted by a British garrison dug in with artillery during the revolution, he knew that an advancing column of closely packed French troops would get slaughtered by the grape-shot. So he simply told the men to fall down on his command and let the shot pass, then charge for a fe...

I've just discovered this excellent AAR.
Can't wait for the next instalment - thanks very much for posting.

I understand what you are saying, and you are obviously right that ingame, this is how it works. But it is another example of why I would so so love to have activation status hidden... So that one cannot do this, and has to roll with the leaders he got : Either you divide the stack in two before th...

Cheers. Can't wait to get stuck into a new campaign.

Any date for the next patch?
Cheers.

Gen.DixonS.Miles wrote:Couldn't ask for a better war-simulation/ game at the operational and strategic level! Thank You AGEOD! So much!

I agree. A cracking game, that gets better as the patches come in.

Count me in.

Try hovering your mouse pointer over the number that indicates the power of an unit, either a single unit or a division, the number of mens/horses/cannons appear in the botton part of the unit card and in the stack tab for the full stack. Regards: Melvi Yes, but that's slightly harder to find as yo...

Hi chaps, After a couple of weeks on AACW2 I'm pleased to say it's a great improvement on the already great original game. What I am really missing is a tooltip letting me know the size of my army in men, horses and guns, and while I can understand that the Power rating of a stack is an important an...