New strategy-gamer and new in this forum. I'm uruguayan, 17 y/o, recently finished school,working as barmaid and living by myself. I like history and politics so much, and come from a very "politic-fanatic" family (and frecuently arguing for this reason)...for one side a leftist (not commies, much more like anarchists) for the other a nazi grandfather (and not a monster, a very lovely person)... so, advancing in time, "peronistas" (that's a political filiation in Argentina, where relatives lived some time, and simpatyzers with the "tupamaros" movement (urban leftist guerrilla in Uruguay at the end of the 60's and begining of the 70's)...
Did I forget something? yes, an uncle priest. So, even if I'm non catholic (neither christian) I'm very familiar with some religious problems.
Recently I finished with a boyfriend who introduced me to the strategy games, and I find myself in heaven.
Toooo much.
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I made a question in the spanish forum cause my english is very limited and I'm lazy, but Rafiki invited me to make the question here:
Well, I have been playing for four days -intensivly- and after an introductory game in "easy-low agr" thinked that I was capable to jump to a "normal-normal" one (I was tempted to put it in agressive, but it says that the AI could be non prudent, so I leave it on normal).
All was ok, I was playing CSA and winning (hardly, with a lot of panic-full moments, but advancing in KY and MISS) but I get bored with a lot of stupid battle results.
For example, I put a militia and an arty in a city in KY, they trenchered, in one specific turn had two extra units in that province (both were in transit), and, to my surprise, there was a yankee arty so happy, like making a picnic (
)...
Then I decided to leave three of the units in defensive for not losing that adventage, and put the fourth in agressive for starting a battle. Of the two non trenchered units, I chosed for pull the trigger an arty (supossing that could use the range aganist the enemy arty, and that a cavalry attack could be like the "ligth brigade charge"...
So:
In one stack, one militia and one arty-12, deffensive, in trenches lvl 2.
In another stack one cavalry, not in trench, deffensive position.
In the last stack, another 12 arty, on aggresive position.
The yankee supermen:
One arty.
Outcome:
I had 280 KIA, and lossed the battle (but not the province)...
the f*cking yankee spacetroopers, zero deads...
zero,
ze-ro,
ZERO
I dont want to be reiterative, buy it happened several times. I put another example as a footnote, if somebody is interested... but the idea is the same.
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Well, somebody in the spanish forum suggest me that is possible that the enemy figthes only one of my units a time, till the others are out of the battle... is that possible?
Maybe that's the anser, cause I always put the units separated, for not having command-points penalties...
I'm not sure but I remember have readed that only corps practice that of "marching to the sound of guns" (please confirmation) , but that's logic if the units are in different provinces... shoul I supose that I have my soldiers playing cards and telling dirty stories while their comrades are figthing at half a mile????
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THE REITERATIVE FOOTNOTE: Four militias in defensive attitude (all in lvl 2 trench, but separated in four differen stacks) vs two militias, one infantry and one cavalry... and they rolled over me. Dont say in wikiACW that the defender, specially in trenchs, have all adventages?
What happens with the 3-1 attaking ratio?
leure: 
) we already have three woman aboard!
) cause at least this makes clear that the enemies spacetroopers arent using ak-47 or sable-lasers.