Posture Question

[Maj. Frogbottom]

I sent RE Lee with his army and another corps to a contested region, with the Union having the higher percentage, in a defensive posture. During the resolution of the turn he switched to an offensive posture and attacked, the first two battles went well but it seemed he continued the attack against overwhelming forces and got his butt handed to him. Did he switch posture because of the percent control of the region or will leaders do that sometimes on their own? I was hoping to enter the region and make them attack me but Lee got a little carried away it seemed and lost a whole corps plus some. Or did I not understand the mechanism behind the move?

[Hobbes]

I sent RE Lee with his army and another corps to a contested region, with the Union having the higher percentage, in a defensive posture. During the resolution of the turn he switched to an offensive posture and attacked, the first two battles went well but it seemed he continued the attack against overwhelming forces and got his butt handed to him. Did he switch posture because of the percent control of the region or will leaders do that sometimes on their own? I was hoping to enter the region and make them attack me but Lee got a little carried away it seemed and lost a whole corps plus some. Or did I not understand the mechanism behind the move?

It would have been the % control.
Cheers, Chris

[pasternakski]

I was hoping to enter the region and make them attack me

"You see them redskins over there? They's too tough to kill where they is, so we's a-gonna advance on 'em until they attack, so as we can defeat 'em."

[Pocus]

If they were in defensive posture, you had no chances that they would attack you, logical.
Lee can have switched to offensive if you did not have enough control when he entered the region. Perhaps you had some residual control from the last turn, but the time to get there was enough for the Union corps to secure all the region.
If he attacks, as he is restless, he have trouble stopping the attack when wisdom would dictate it.

Hope this clear the matters.

[Maj. Frogbottom]

Yes, thanks Pocus. Pasternakski, "You're welcome," for the chance to show your mental superiority compared to a simpleton such as myself.