A layman's guide to Combat Resolution (long post)

[minipol]

If the assault is how you explain it, one could argue that artillery isn't as useful as we think, at least in a division.

[GraniteStater]

Well, I'm gonna write a Grapeshot Canister mod, then.

[Gray Fox]

Gray Fox,

They do? Where did you find this? I thought that stacks maintained their integrity during battle and derived bonuses and penalties from the leader of the stack. I do not know the answer, that is just what I thought, and do not have source confirmation. Also, the rule might be different for MTSG, which, again, is a subject I am poorly informed on.

Division commanders and the Corps/Army commander give their Offensive/Defensive stat bonus to the Division/Stack they directly command. So lots of general's stats get factored into multiple stack battles. However, one and only one general's stats affect how many units participate in a battle in any given terrain/weather. So Divisions, Corps and Armies get individual leader bonuses, but "all stacks in a region" only get the benefit of the highest ranking leader to determine the quota of elements that actually engage. That is what I meant. Sorry for any confusion.

[ArmChairGeneral]

Gray Fox,
Got it, and that is a useful tidbit about frontage.

minipol,
I am beginning to come to that conclusion as well.

[GraniteStater]

Is the model correct? Combat ends in an Assault phase, right, as distinguished from the Firing phases at Range>1?

Maps and Mapmakers of the Civil War has a captioned commentary on one map that states (paraphrase): "Bayonet wounds were rare and hand-to-hand fighting was uncommon." Page 183, somewhere around that point.

If combat always ends in a 'hand-to-hand'...maybe the modelling isn't entirely congruent to historical reality. Not that it has to be.

Just thought I'd bring it up. I need some Extra Credit.