Playing as CSA I had monster battles with 200K men on each side and combined casualties of over 80K. Mind you, that was in 1865 when the war had de facto ended in a stalemate but the AI apparently wanted to make a last desperate push out of Alexandria. (At the end, the war saw 1.2 million casualties...

In my just finished first CSA campain (on normal) I assaulted it early 1863 with IIRC 3 divisions. The union had reinforced it with a strong brigade and Union strength was about 350+fort garrison.

1) The tool-tip lists several reasons why the "enable divisional command" button is greyed out. Usually, this is due to the selected general being inactive. Also, especially at the beginning of the campain, it can be due to insufficient resources available. 2) Only time I am not able to add units to...

If you want to move troops from Texas to help out in more eastern theatres, I would ship them to New Orleans and then send them north/north-east by trains.

The large CSA brigades (especially Virginians) seem to be very useful when you hit the division cap.

Thanks for the replies! So suicide runs are a weakness of the AI. What about the blockade? Is it also common for the AI to not blockade at all?

P.S. I know that the real challenge is in multi player. But I bought AACW explicitly as a single player game.

I frequently reorganize my divisions in 1.09e. But I just use "-" to remove the current units from the division, the merge the new brigades with "+" without doing anything like removing/adding divisional command from the general in question.

I have recently acquired this great game and am enjoying it very much. After some scenarios and try-and-error approaches to campaigns I have finished my first Union campaign in summer 1863 by storming Richmond and now I am on my first real Confederate campaign. Playing the rebels I have noticed 2 th...