TEP wrote:Pardon a raw newbie, but the feature exists for corps of the same army to coordinate their attack, does it not?
Just one more benefit of an army/corps structure.
It could be argued that the lack of such an option for independent divisions represents the lack of coordination associated with this system.
Hi TEP!
This feature is intended to work only with corps/army stacks moving form the same region. You cannot use it to coordinate corps starting from different regions.
Regarding cptcav comment about Shiloh,
for what i remember, the rebel advance to battle would have been (in game terms) from the same region.
All corps were reunited and moved to the battle by 3 different parallel roads that IMHO would all been in the same region, as they were very close to each other.
In fact, IIRC on the game map Corinth, the starting point and Pittburg landing are adjacent regions.
In spite of all this, the real war coordination between the corps was awful and the travel had lots of delays.
I bet that if they had departed form different areas, 100 miles apart form each other they would have no been able to coordinate at all for the battle.
One thing to have in mind related to this coordination of arrival is that, at least between corps of the same army, the march to the sound of guns can simulate this very well.
Several corps moving form different regions towards and enemy stack don’t need to arrive at the same day to participate together in battle.
Once the fastest ones arrives and engages all the friendly corps in adjacent regions (even if still several days away) will roll to try to march to the sound of the guns and participate in battle.
Of course luck and leaders quality its important for this marching to be successful but it was also and important factor in the real war.
I’m not sure the degree of coordination cptcav ask for should be available giving the huge problems armies had back then to coordinate their efforts even when fighting in the same region or even being just some miles away.
In any case, if this coordination feature is be added to the game in AACW2 the success chance should be pretty low.
Cheers!