Huge Monster Stack

[Mosby]

I was doing really well, with things in the east maybe going my way, when I was assaulted by some crazy over 100k union force. They went and just plowed through Manassas, and if it wasn't for P.G.T. and his magic, I would've surely lost the game.

I remember reading about how these monster stacks wouldn't be in the game, due to the way the command chain worked. And while I can see how you could just march around it in the west, it absolutely kills in the east, where it can just take whatever it wants.

I'm just kinda lucky that one, it went back to D.C. after I threatened to take it, and two it looks like it split up when Lee started going to New York, while Johnston once again threatened to take the capitol.

[soloswolf]

It's not hard to get stacks like that.

And no offense to P.G.T.'s magical abilities, but your victory probably had a lot to do with all of their regiments being out of command, which is a common concern for the computer with forces of that size.

Just avoid it until you can strike it on your terms. I would advise your terms including heavy entrentchment levels and a river crossing if you can manage it.

[GShock]

In the finals, the union had massed over 160.000 in VA to prepare for Richmond...it is historically accurate to have monster stacks and it's engine-wise correct to remind you not all of those troops can be committed at the same time due to frontage rules.

Finally, as remarked, the leaders' stats come into play, along with entrenchments and ooc penalties.

Numbers alone do not confer an advantage. They do confer one but that doesn't mean they win...in fact you have beaten them.

[lenny]

Playing as CSA I had monster battles with 200K men on each side and combined casualties of over 80K. Mind you, that was in 1865 when the war had de facto ended in a stalemate but the AI apparently wanted to make a last desperate push out of Alexandria. (At the end, the war saw 1.2 million casualties, almost 1/3rd of it in the last year.)