Retreats

[Captain]

Retreats rules the bane of my life !

Ok a full strength division under Longstreet with arty 'inside' forts HD. Outside Breckridge with a full strength division entrenched and naval guns.
The Feds attack at 3:2 roll Breckenridge, but hey does he do the obvious (and niavely expected by me) and retreat in the Fort ? Nope the whole division dies or surrenders and the Feds get my naval guns!!!!

My plan was that B retreat with Longstreet and then the naval guns could interdict the rivers.
Well another stuff up, scratch one division.

Let me guess someone will tell me I had to push the move inside structure button or something. Really it seems a bit illogical to me that troops holding an outer perimeter would prefer to die or surrender than simply fall back inside the fortified inner perimeter.

Explanations???

[Gray_Lensman]

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[Rafiki]

Things is, depending on the opposition, retreating inside the fort can be a deathtrap, while retreating to a neighboring region can be the first step in living to fight another day, so you need to make a choice on what to do.

[dublish]

Things is, depending on the opposition, retreating inside the fort can be a deathtrap, while retreating to a neighboring region can be the first step in living to fight another day, so you need to make a choice on what to do.

This. The AI seems especially fond of cramming as large an army as it can into a single city as far behind your lines as it possibly can, then letting you starve it into submission. General rule of thumb is to get out of structures while you have the chance.

[Captain]

Things is, depending on the opposition, retreating inside the fort can be a deathtrap, while retreating to a neighboring region can be the first step in living to fight another day, so you need to make a choice on what to do.

If the front has moved way south, the arguement is academic. I.E. all surrounding areas are red, (non-retreatable). Now lets remember I have left these divisons deliberately behind to tie down an army or two for as long as they can.
So does the outside division retreat inside the fort ? Nope they die or surrender ! This is ludicrous ! It simply cannot reflect any semblance of reality.

If Gray is right and I am meant to push the inside structure button, I find this equally bizzare that troops give up a 5-7 entrenchment level for nothing.

No there is something fundamentally wrong here methinks.

Comments panel?

[Gray_Lensman]

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