power is just a rather abstracted guess estimate of how will fare your men in battle. It is much more better to have 100 combat power of a few elite troops in hilly terrain, led by a good general, and not 350 combat power of militia having lost half their cohesion with a lousy leader. ;) I'll keep ...

Ace wrote:Where you attacking or defending?

I was attacking, I stated I thought my other 2 corps of 20,000 each were arriving on the same day but I was mistaken.

Is it just me in my newbish ways or do numbers tend to dictate battles. I was facing off 40,000 yanks with Longstreet's corps with numbered around 22,000. I wouldn't expect to demolish or come out unscathed. But what happened was pure destruction. I managed out of there with only 8,000 men. Also, wh...