Battle selection?

[chichetr]

I'm slowly coming around to actually consider buying this game. Formations seem to be much better and are less frequently blobs of men.

My question is, can you select battles you play a la carte without having to play through the campaign? 

[Captiva]

Yes you can. You can play the Campaign mode where the battle timeline is linear, or you can play the Historic battles in which you can choose to play most of the battles that are in the Campaign but you are choosing them individually and in any order i.e. "I feel like playing Gettysburg today", "that was fun, now I think I'll play Shiloh". Awesome.

[chichetr]

Cool, thanks so much for the reply. 

I'm assuming troop numbers are set at the historical amounts?

[chichetr]

Anyone, Bueller? Bueller? 

In the selected battles, are historical troop amounts used?

[CSA Watkins]

Chichetr, yes for the most part Historical, places.. strengths , times.  Weapons are balances for a more realistic fight..imo,, Historical Battles are nice and give the player a choice , where n when to fight.(as Captiva mentioned)

I like looking up the real battle n than play the historical. Each to their own though.....Historical/Custom/Campaign // Levels...

[chichetr]

Thanks man! Appreciate it! Looks like I'll have to get this one then!