defensive positions

[Trout]

How can I have a unit or stack leave thier dug-in position, go somehwere else, and then return without digging in again?

Thanks

[Merlin]

Use individual militia units.

It works like this:

1) Have a militia unit slowly dig in on it's own. When you move a larger force into the region, combine it with the militia, and move the militia back into its own stack the next turn. The larger force will inherit the entrenchments.

OR

2) Merge a militia unit with an entrenched larger force. The next turn, separate the militia from the larger force. The militia will inherit the entrenchments of the larger force, leaving it free to move and return to the entrenchments using 1) above.

[Prussia]

Good information- but bear in mind, and take into account and make an allowance for Militia/etc. inside of a structure vs. outside. Sometimes you have to go through hoops to ensure you have both positions entrenched. I'm having that problem right now with Army of Shenandoa not having any outside entrenchments available, and I don't want to stick the entire Army inside of Winchester.

[Rod Smart]

What Merlin said.


Use a small part of your resources to dig trenches behind the lines, in case something bad happens. I like to recruit those 6 Maryland militia units, and have them sit along the Potomac. And use the two infantry, one artillery brigades the entire length of the Ohio.

[Smitzer52]

Wait, so province can be entrenched inside and out...I was wondering why entrenchment level was so low. Figures.

[Merlin]

Wait, so province can be entrenched inside and out...I was wondering why entrenchment level was so low. Figures.

What Prussia is talking about relates only to structures. Units inside structures will entrench as well, but my statement relates only to entrenchment in the region, not within the structure inside the region. Think of structures as regions inside regions, if you will, and the entrenchment levels or speed of reaching a specific level for forces in each have no bearing on the entrenchments of the other.