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A new screen (a bit blurry, I had to resample it so that Imageshacks accept it):


1861 campaign, CSA player against USA AI.

Zones in red: Banks's command attempted to pass south Harper's Ferry but got stopped and then completely routed. The CSA hold firms the valley, and prevent any further penetration down south, as seen with the regions in red. The pulsating icon on the stack panel would tell you the details of the why of the situation: how Banks's army is mobile and how they get prevented to pass the confederate lines. The same mechanism allows cavalry to make deep raids, or Blockade runners pass (sometime!) the brown water blockade of the Union navy.

AI Thoughts:
Being badly mauled, the AI decided that Banks should go in full retreat, toward Annapolis! The move will surely be revised next turn, if the army cohesion climb a bit, for a stop to Washhinton. Notice the small tent on the artillery outside of Harper's Ferry, it means that a part of Bank's army is in fact moving to secure Harper's Ferry (the AI don't likes to give up objectives too easily, even if in this case there is few chances to hold against the main CSA army).

Well, things are still in being and the AI is tuned each day. We don't pretend she can plays as a good player, or even a competent one, but you should have quite some challenge though, as she is able to compute and uses statistics in details before each move.

Regimental resilience: See how, despite being badly mauled, most of the elements in the 1st Division are still there. The artillery seems to have suffered from heavy counter-fire too. (and these Ohio boys seems to have routed before firing even a single shot!)

Pocus wrote:Regimental resilience: See how, despite being badly mauled, most of the elements in the 1st Division are still there. The artillery seems to have suffered from heavy counter-fire too. (and these Ohio boys seems to have routed before firing even a single shot!)

That will be my question:

Why are the union units routed as their shape shows they don't even fight?
Is it because they are green? or stopped by confederate army? etc...

I'll try to answer. 95% of division is in a very bad shape. They lost men, supplies, their moral is low... Few regiments are in a good shape if you look at number of men but their cohesion is low. They probably acted as reserves but rebel blow was so hard that all they could do is run for their life .

In ACW life, imagine this:

You are a solider in 1st Ohio regiment. You have been put as reserves. Waiting for orders to join battle lines if or when needed. Battle begines. Smoke, screems... After 30 minutes you see that your comrades are running towards you. Without weapons, with scare and blood on their faces. Some of the officers are issueing orders to retreat and some to go to front and reinforce battle lines. Total mess. You realize that whole army is retreating. You didn't even get the chance to see the fight and it was all over.

Or something like this

Hope that clears it up a bit. If no, wait for Pocus.

Godspeed

What were the confederate losses in that battle with Banks?

Seems from the save I fetched from the recycle bin that Banks was assigned to the beaten army after the defeat, which happen one month ago, the losses being 2350 rebs killed/injured versus 8550 feds. Yes that's a sound defeat, but the federals (Heintzelman) attacked at 2 vs 1 Johnston's entrenched position and were repelled.

Johnston was formed as an army and had Jackson in the stack too. The Feds maintained their position in the region though (not a total rout so).

Is this really the good screenshot ? The text indicates csa player and union AI but the flag on top left screen is Union and details for brigades,division are given. The fog of war prevent from seing the other side.

yes, I loaded the AI turn for the screenshot. I routinely do that to analyze suboptimal moves (and for now 'she' is making many of these, but less and less every day)

Thanks, i understand now.