I think the Union is going to need a bandaid

[Doomwalker]

Here are two shots of an engagement in Fredericksburg (think this is spelled wrong), with the Army of Northern Virginia and Union forces out of Alexandria.

First shot the CS wins with: 1,965 vs 25,575 casualties.

Second shot was round number two at: 17,939 vs 66,000

What has been the highest casualty rate that you have seen in an engagement?

[Korrigan]

MMhmmm... nice graphic glitch with the name of the battle...

[Doomwalker]

Graphic glitch, what do you mean, other than it being extremely long?

[Korrigan]

That's what I meant: Fredericksburg Fortifications, this must the longuest name for a battleground in AACW!

[Doomwalker]

Yeah it is a little long. Bad thing was the NVA never even got to move before the initial attack, then here comes Hooker on day 15. All in all it is OK, I will take the NVA not moving for 91,000 Union casualties.

[Doomwalker]

BTW, the way I understand it. The unit icons in the ranged and assault rows are total losses, correct?

[caranorn]

Yep, you lost yourself 5 division headquarters (probably with their entire force).

[Doomwalker]

Actually no, I destroyed 5 Union HQ's and apparently a bunch of other units.

My stats for the battles are on the left side.

[caranorn]

Oh, well then great job;-). So you didn't have the nasty surprise to have to pick up one of your corps' leaders all over the place recovering from wounds (or more likely the shock of just having lost their entire force).

[Doomwalker]

Nope sure didn't, but I probably will. After the pounding the Union took, I am going to chase him back into Maryland. We will see how all turns out.

[Wardyr]

Looks awesome but I wish we could click on the picture and enlarge it to read more of the details and what not. Still awsome pics.

[Alan_Bernardo]

Looks awesome but I wish we could click on the picture and enlarge it to read more of the details and what not. Still awsome pics.

Here's the first pic. A bit fuzzy but you can see some stuff:





Alan

[Doomwalker]

OK, I reposted the original pictures, but this time with battle resolution screen only.

[Doomwalker]

Yup, looking over it again. I just realised that I wiped 80 elements off the map. Man that was one seriously costly battle for the Union.

[Wardyr]

NOw that is what I am talking about as far as making it bigger. Good job...now I must go and ponder over your pictures.

[Doomwalker]

LOL, yeah I tried useing the original pics, but those got way too big. Figured the copy and paste of the important part would work best.

[Cat Lord]

There is a problem with this screen:



The numbers of elements don't add up in the first part: We only see 87 out of your 114 elements, and only 118 out of the 214 Union elements.

So, we don't even see how many infantry elements were engaged by the US for example: None of them are displayed, while 42 have been destroyed...

Cat

[Doomwalker]

Good catch, I hadn't noticed that until now. Yup, looks like we need another line added to the intial units section.

[veji1]

it seems to me it only displays elements outside the divisions in the first box : If you have 13 Div HQs it means you have 13 divs, and only the infantry/cavalry/arty that is outside divisions is displayed... Maybe I am mistaken though.

[Pocus]

sorting down by number can do the trick in the meantime also

[Doomwalker]

I am not too sure I understand what you mean by "sorting down" Pocus, could you explain please?

[Cat Lord]

Well I think it would be better and clearer just to have something like:

all Infantry x 78 (or whatever number)
all Cavalry x 45
all Artillery x 34

Anyway.

I don't understand the current split. There is enough space for all useful NATO symbol, hopefully. Otherwise, some non-combatant service symbol could be excluded first (Medecine, balloon, trans, etc...).



Cat

[Doomwalker]

I second that. Yeah I myself am not too positive on having the display show multiple sets of destroyed units.

For instance up in the first pic, the ranged casualties for the Union side could have just as easily shown 1 HQ, 1 Light arty, 1 sharpshooter, and 6 infantry instead of infantry x 2, infantry x 2, infantry x 2. Now as far as units like in the assault casualties section, I would leave the heavy infantry separated from the regular infantry.

[Queeg]

The display conventions here are all, I suspect, vestiges of BoA. They made perfect sense there, where the forces were smaller and had no divisions. Given the much larger and more diverse forces involved here, the display probably needs a bit of tweaking.