retreat into a fort

[ypzou]

As there is a fort in region, in witch case a defeated force will retreat into the fort instead of adjacent area？

[Longshanks]

Retreating forces usually retreat to another region.

[Altaris]

In my last PBEM game, I was playing South and the Northern player had a 700 CP stack led by Grant bunkered down in Paducah during winter of 1861-1862. On the late February 1862 turn, I decided to jump up there with a big stack led by Stonewall and try to trap him. My opponent says he moved the stack out that turn and set it to Defend/lowest retreat value, it definitely retreated but went straight back into the Paducah structure (and I wasn't blocking the path with ships or anything). Turned out to be quite fortuitous for me, as I kept Grant bottled up for almost all of the 1862 campaigning season, and they eventually surrendered for a pretty big loss.

Now this is all based off what my opponent told me, but if that was the case, seems that retreats sometimes do go into structure instead of to another region. That game was being played on 1.15 btw.

[lodilefty]

In my last PBEM game, I was playing South and the Northern player had a 700 CP stack led by Grant bunkered down in Paducah during winter of 1861-1862. On the late February 1862 turn, I decided to jump up there with a big stack led by Stonewall and try to trap him. My opponent says he moved the stack out that turn and set it to Defend/lowest retreat value, it definitely retreated but went straight back into the Paducah structure (and I wasn't blocking the path with ships or anything). Turned out to be quite fortuitous for me, as I kept Grant bottled up for almost all of the 1862 campaigning season, and they eventually surrendered for a pretty big loss.

Now this is all based off what my opponent told me, but if that was the case, seems that retreats sometimes do go into structure instead of to another region. That game was being played on 1.15 btw.

If that's where they came from, yes.

Very high emphasis on "retreat to region where turn started", so in this case it puts them back inside.

It would have been interesting to see where he retreated if he was caught trying to leave the region....

[Hohenlohe]

In my last PBEM game, I was playing South and the Northern player had a 700 CP stack led by Grant bunkered down in Paducah during winter of 1861-1862. On the late February 1862 turn, I decided to jump up there with a big stack led by Stonewall and try to trap him. My opponent says he moved the stack out that turn and set it to Defend/lowest retreat value, it definitely retreated but went straight back into the Paducah structure (and I wasn't blocking the path with ships or anything). Turned out to be quite fortuitous for me, as I kept Grant bottled up for almost all of the 1862 campaigning season, and they eventually surrendered for a pretty big loss.

Now this is all based off what my opponent told me, but if that was the case, seems that retreats sometimes do go into structure instead of to another region. That game was being played on 1.15 btw.

I assume that if your structure lays near a river the retreat follows a special path direct into the structure because the way crossing the river is to difficult.There must be somekind of modifier to regulate this.But in your case it will be an advantage if you have enough forces there to block Grant from sortie out of the fort.

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Hohenlohe