My Union opponent made a bold amphibious attack against Wilmington and took the town. I decided I had to get it back and sent a Corp down from Richmond to engage his forces. The battle was going well and my opponents forces made two attempts to retreat. Unfortunatly for me there was nowhere for him to retreat to and I didn't have the power to destroy him completely. I assume that in this scenario the game will force the attacker to retreat as my opponent was defending outside of the town so we couldn't begin the next turn with both forces in the same region.
Unfortunatly instead of retreating to the region I was last in I was actually made to retreat past Wilmington and into fort Fisher. The only way out of fort Fisher is through Wilmington across a river into a marsh region. So basically I was stuck. My opponent holds Wilmington, cuts a main rail line and
corners an entire CSA Corp. If I sent an army down to try and relieve the situation it might also be forced to retreat into fort Fisher.
My main points about this are :-
1. Retreat regions need some work - at least make some dead ends like fort Fisher very low priority as a retreat path (snag with this is if you came from fort Fisher in the first place). Ideally the game should remember where the attacker came from and make this the priority retreat region if it is still valid.
2. I'm worried that a superior attacker is forced to retreat just because he cannot eliminate a cornered opponent?
3. Does anyone live in or know the area? Would it be possible for a force in fort Fisher to move from there to Burke/South Port? If so at least a fix for this one area could be to add a region link.
I worry that any union player worth his salt will always attack Wilmington to exploit this problem. You can't take it back without the chance of being shunted into fort Fisher.
I have to say that Gene my PBEM opponent actually went inside Wilmington rather than defending outside to allow me to escape. (He said he was going to do this anyway but I'm not sure about that - a fine opponent!)
Cheers, Chris
P.S. I've told Gene that I won't attack Wilmington before he has a chance to build up his defences again but when I do there is a very good chance I will end up once more stuck in fort Fisher. In the meantime I'm losing a huge amount of supply
