1. In my sole game so far, the CSA tried to move fort batteries around but they move ridiculously slowly, even on a ship. Don't these represent artillery pieces that are on mounts unsuitable for use as field artillery, and shouldn't they be immobile? It certainly seems something that the AI struggle...

So if you're doing synchronised movement with several Corps and one is 'inactive', they all move only slower (the 'active' leaders had to keep stopping to find out where the slow guy was). What do these 'inactive' leaders represent? The real leaders might delay before starting, move slowly, break of...

Can anybody explain what the point of this is. I found out that you have to use Martial Law in captured territory (for most of the game!) in order to use the rail net, but HC doesn't give you this benefit (does it?).

I've seen it suggested that garrisoning every city you take is not the way to play the game. If you don't, you get the 'local citizenry have rebelled' event or one of the AI's invisible raiders walks in. And then your rail net is disrupted. I've also had instances where I have had a large force outs...

Not convinced by this mechanism. If I had a large stack with an inactive leader I shuffled it so that an active leader was in charge, if necessary removing the Corps or Army commander and attacking with his sub-units. With a Division, I detached the leader and led the constituent units make the atta...

Just completed my first game (10a patch) as Union and the end game was rather tiresome. Once I had captured all the objectives, the CSA formed large gorilla (spelling deliberate) stacks which charged around behind my lines without any obvious supply souce supply smashing through my garrisons at will...

While people are talking about guns, I have a couple of questions. 1) If I put naval artillery in (say) Cairo, will it fire ? You'd think it would make a pretty big hole in a cotton-clad. 2) In my latest game (patch 10) I've noticed that the CSA are removing the fort batteries from their forts and s...