Elements in Contact

[Straight Arrow]

While examining a battle report that ran to 7 pages, I noticed two sets of numbers. I believe one was the number of elements in contact (7) and the other was the total elements available (83).

My numbers did not change though out the report, but the defender's numbers, who had troops MTTSOTG, did. His elements in contact went from (20) to (31).


Here's what I find puzzling. When I checked the terrain overlay for the area, it showed frontage for 17 line elements and 9 support elements.




Questions:

1 Where did the 7 element contact number come from?

2 What does it mean?

3 How does the math work?

[LCcmdr]

While examining a battle report that ran to 7 pages, I noticed two sets of numbers. I believe one was the number of elements in contact (7) and the other was the total elements available (83).

My numbers did not change though out the report, but the defender's numbers, who had troops MTTSOTG, did. His elements in contact went from (20) to (31).


Here's what I find puzzling. When I checked the terrain overlay for the area, it showed frontage for 17 line elements and 9 support elements.




Questions:

1 Where did the 7 element contact number come from?

2 What does it mean?

3 How does the math work?

What was the terrain of the engagement: wild, etc.; and, what was the weather like--Harsh, frozen, muddy, etc.? Though I don't know how to answer your question, I have encountered similar effects when my troops were in winter besieging a fort or fighting in rough terrain. The manual deals with some of these terrain and weather issues.

[Gray Fox]

Do you mean lines in the battlelog like these?

"2:20:42 PM (Reporting) Commit Chance 1008586 P. Kearny' Corps 100 %, Rolled: 56 Commited

2:20:42 PM (Reporting) Commit Chance 1003511 Army of the Potomac 100 %, Rolled: 11 Commited"

If so, this just means that the chance for this unit to commit to battle was 100% and in both cases the number "rolled" was lower, so the whole stack was committed to battle.

A line like this line is typically what describes the number of subunits (SU) involved:

"2:20:42 PM (Reporting) GetRound SubList 128 SUs can be involved during this round."

It should jive with the terrain feature number of line units and support units allowed. This number may be modified by the respective overall commanders for total units in the battle.

"In open terrain only (clear/prairie/desert/wood), the Units Quotas are modified by leader (rank)*(offensive/defensive rating) depending whether in offensive or defensive posture:

Combat Units Quota: (+25 points)*[(rank)]+(off/def rating)]
Support Units Quota: (+10 points)*[(rank)]+(off/def rating)]"

http://www.ageod.net/agewiki/Frontage
http://www.ageod.net/agewiki/Combat_Explained

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P.S. To avoid confusion, the battlelog lines and the terrain pic are from different battles that I had.

[Straight Arrow]

Do you mean lines in the battlelog like these?

How do you access the battlelogs?

[Gray Fox]

I don't have the game in front of me right now, but IIRC it's in the CW2 folder in a subdirectory folder. It might be called something simple like "Logs". The log is a temp file, so each turn you get a new battlelog. If you want to keep one, you need to copy it to a different location or name it something, like Gettysburg.