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How does that work?

A strange battle occured when I interdicted Union stacks sent by train to Harper Ferry. I arrived a day before in a region through which Union troops travelled and they stumbled right into my stack. Fighting ensued. Battles were all in my favor, two Union generals died (sic!), lots of captured enemy wagons etc.

My question is: what are the penalties for stack attacked when they are caught travelling on trains? Limited frontage? What else?

Excellent question. I've wondered that myself.

happened to me !!! I lost 2 generals and divs hqs I was sending west like that from a cavalry interception in Knoxville...

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For now there are no penalties, because the game is functionning at the operationnal level, where you can move up to 50000 men in trains, which means you would not just ambush a train but dozens spread over a day in this case.

But the main reason is that the rule indicates that you can only use train if you have at least 25% military control in the region. So if you get control over a portion of a territory, it means the enemy is not yet completely in control of it, so you still have room to unload and deploy before being engaged.