CSA Battles of Annihilation on COL and BG

[Gael]

All,

Upon thinking about the battles I have played as CSA on UG, the ones where I was fortunate enough to wipe out the Yank army, were the following:

1. Shiloh - almost every time

2. Antietam/Sharpsburg

3. Gettysburg - 1st day

4. Stones River

5. Cold Harbor

6. Washington - 1st day

The successes were very dependent upon building the Southern army up to even or larger than the Northern one.

Philosophy and style are conservative until I get the upper hand, and then I seem to go into a sort of blitzkrieg mode.  Like Forrest said - put a skeer into 'em.  Once they start moving backward, don't let up and use the game boundaries and surround them.

For 1st Manassas I usually annihilate half their army.

For 2nd Manassas I generally come close to wiping them out, but not quite.

                           --Gael

[Aetius]

It's a function of the high lethality and the AI's no-retreat-no-surrender berserker mentality. As long as you have the time you can turn any battle into a TAW, but it tends to happen on large, long battles that have few enemy reinforcements in the latter half of the battle.