Fri Oct 13, 2023 7:59 pm
Complementing what Blood and Thunder Brigade and Nickel said, yes, the outcome of the battle sometimes doesn't match what we imagine. I like to think that these types of battles are tactical defeats (which we don't control in the game).
The most important thing is that you have not lost national morale.
What we control in the game is at the strategic and operational level. Therefore, despite this "tactical defeat", you had a strategic victory. With a smaller number of troops, you caused a large amount of losses to the USA. Furthermore, as the friend above said, now Banks's troops are in a difficult situation, which over time will increasingly lose battles and troops, and especially supplies, in consecutive battles, leading to liquidation if they do not retreat.
I also don't advise using "order defensive/hold at all costs", especially playing with CSA. Instead of a "strategic victory" that you obtained, the opposite could have happened, obtaining a tactical victory, but at a cost in men and materials that you as CSA cannot incur. With the CSA it is always better to survive to fight another day, while at the same time inflicting significant losses on the USA.