Grant waits until the mud abates and then commences his pontoon assault across the river in Grantian typical massed assault style. But wait. What's this? Two new fledgling units appear in the city...a new militia and a new artillery unit, untried and unproven. Grant rolls right over them and eliminates them. Uncertain otherwise veteran CSA troops panic and stream out of their Davidson area entrenchments back to Rutherford in disarray. Longstreet and staff reluctantly follow. Nashville falls despite a most energetic preparation. Longstreet removes his three stars and pins back on his two. He knows what is in store for him.
Strange?
This is an exact replay from a PBEM I have now (I'm not host and don't have the game file). And while it may be WAD, it flies in the face of a rule I've relied on out here on the forum......that the "outside the structure force" has to be defeated to engage the inside the structure one. Reinforcements show up placed inside the structure.
Shouldn't Longstreet have been attacked first?
This brings up an irksome situation and IMHO, an ahistorical one that the CSA faces often. That being to choose to NOT build units in a combat area for fear of being overrun. Wouldn't the South be actively raising new forces in a threatened area and cashing in, recruitment-wise, on the real threat that citizens can see?
Would not the impetus caused by a real local threat encourage the call to arms, not discourage it?
I have seen now in PBEMs a ploy by the USA to sometimes NOT capture a given state's structure(s) just to greedily wait in ambush for the next unsuspecting new recruit to show up there for instant liquidation.
Oh and my truthful bonus was to get better stats for Longstreet from the demotion. I have never before or since seen such a demotion but I thought THAT was cool and authentic.
