gotrek wrote:Yes, after a campaign up to 1863 and looking carefully into what was going on , I think you are right.
The green indicator takes troops into account , so for example when a second corps joins the battle the green will go up all the way but you'll lose anyway because it ignores trenches and command bonus etc.
LOL don't worry, you'll get the hang of it.
Pay attention that your attacking troops are not low on cohesion; it's one of the most deadly things for you to attack with worn-out troops; especially against well rested troops. If you have been fighting with the same units a number of times you can assume that they are just as tired as you are, with the side winning the most being in better condition; happy troops are more cohesive.
If you can avoid it, don't attack troops that are deeply entrenched. Look at the bottom of the unit icon, it indicates how well/deeply they are entrenched.
gotrek wrote:One thing I still don't get is how can I load one of the passed saved games? I tried copy p/pasting in the saves files but I still only can load my latest turn.
I believe you mean, how can you load previous turns of a saved game. There are two ways.
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To do this, open the Load Game Menu and hold your mouse-pointer over the game from which you want to back one or more turns, press the <Home> key. A popup will ask you if you want to backup to the previous turn. Click 'Yes' or 'Cancel'. If you click yes, the previously run turn will be deleted and your game will be at the status of just before executing that turn, in other words, all your orders are in place, and you can now go back and change them, or just run them as they were originally given.
If you want to go back one turn further, repeat the above. Each time the last run turn will be deleted.
You can only backup up to 1 year like this, as only 24 turns--one year-- are saved by the game.
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If you only want to go back and look at a turn, or you do not want to loose the game in question, you can manually clone a game.
First, know the name of the game you want to clone. Then go to the Saves directory under your installation directory. The structure should look something like this:
..\AGEod's American Civil War\ACW\Saves
Under ..\Saves\ you will find one or more directories named after the games that you have started. Find the one you want to clone, but do not enter that directory.
Now create a directory under Saves named 'zzzzzzzz'. The reason for this is that the Load Game Menu sorts what if finds under Saves alphabetically, so 'zzzzz' will be at the end of the list. The number of 'z's is unimportant, just so that this directory is listed last.
Now copy the content of the directory of the game you want to clone into the newly created 'zzzzz' directory. So if the name of your game is 'CSA Goes To Town', you have to change into that directory, mark all the files and directories you find there, and copy them into 'zzzzz'.
Exactly how you do this will depend on the file manager you are using; I do hope you know how to use the one you will use; please, I'd rather not try to explain how to copy files back and forth in win-duh-s.
Once you have copied the files and directories of your saved game into the new directory, go into the Load Game Menu. At the very bottom of the saved games list will be the game you have copied. The original game that you are cloning will be somewhere above it in the list.
Put your mouse pointer over the last game in the list and press the <Ins> key. You will now be asked to provide a new name for your game. Enter the new name and hit <Enter>.
You can now backup in this game as far as you want without affecting the original saved game. As with before you cannot go forwards and every turn you backup is lost forever, but you still have the original, and you can manually clone a game as often as you have disk space and can think of game names
You do not have to end the game to do any of this, just go back to the Main Menu before copying any files.
gotrek wrote:another question in the settings, if I tick off fog of war will it mean that I will not have fog of war anymore or the AI or both? Since I play with high detection bonus for the AI, I wondered if that option didn't have the same effect in fact.
I don't know settings by heart, but the tool-tip describes them pretty will. Just click though them to see what each says.
gotrek wrote:My current settings are AI: Passive, Lieutenant, high detection, activation easy and give AI more time.
Passive is the aggressiveness with which Athena plays. At rc7 and above you can pretty much take it for what is says. Before that if you set Athena to anything above passive and she will do some pretty weird things occasionally; lot's of very deep raiding en-force.
The AI Rank will determine, from what I've been able to see, how well Athena organizes her forces and maybe how well she runs the economy. Anything below Lieutenant and she is very sloppy with building division and choosing generals. At lieutenant she's much better, but still, if you look at what she's doing, you will do a massive face-palm at some of what you find. I haven't played at above Lieutenant yet.
