One thing I don't see...

[Revolutionarythought]

A couple campaigns in I've noticed something that bothers me a bit.

I can have an entrenched army, set on defend that the other player, or AI can just walk around.

In some senses this is fine. If an army sees an entrenched enemy, he can choose to try to avoid assaulting a fortified enemy by trying to move around him.

I guess what I'd like to see is the ability to "defend" a region in such a way that you force a battle if an enemy unit tries to move around you.

Its strange that to force a battle, I have to give up all terrain bonuses. It seems that an army during the American Civil war could, and did, position themselves in such a way that the other side would have to attack.

It should be possible, for instance, for general Lee to pick the best terrain the situation allows, putting himself between Federal forces and Richmond.

In guess whats bothering me is that in the game, in order to force a battle with an advancing enemy, I've got to toggle the little button that says I give up all terrain bonuses.

It seems we should be allowed to force a battle, defending, just giving up some (or even most) of the terrain bonuses, but not all.

Just a though.

-Scott

[Coffee Sergeant]

I thought that if you have < 5% military control of a region, your army would automatically switched to offensive posture.

[Pocus]

indeed. If you control entirely the region, then any opponent advancing on you will auto switch to attack...

[Le Ricain]

indeed. If you control entirely the region, then any opponent advancing on you will auto switch to attack...

This auto-attack also applies to stacks which are inactive, but are moving into enemy territory. This is the exception to the rule that inactive stacks can not assault or attack. This was tactic in the early days of AACW.

[Coffee Sergeant]

Actually in a recent PBEM I tried advancing two corps through enemy held territory helpd by a large Union Corps, when I executed the turn it says the movement was "blocked"

[Pocus]

this means there was a residual enemy presence in the region they were in, so you could not penetrate deeper into Union territory.