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I agree with what was said before: Having the option for fixed enemy strength on normal difficulty would be great.

This is a fun game, I really enjoy it. And I'm happy someone made it, since Creative Assembly seems to have given up on these kinds of scenarios. So please don't be offended by my question: Does anyone else have the feeling that the briefings kind of f--ck with you? The strategic advice I am given most often turns out to be very, very bad. Even in the first mission as a Confederate I learned that the advice of 'delaying' the Union by sending skirmishers out helped not a bit, just got some hundred of my men demoralized and/or killed very fast. The better strategy was to dig myself in, defend the fort with teeth and nails. Now I'm trying to defend a town the Union is attacking. In the briefing, I was advised to fight north of town to 'delay' the enemy. Again this turned out to be bullshit advice. I have only few troops, there was no way that I could plug all the possible entryways. So I couldnt prevent enemy skirmishers to sneak behind my lines and occupy the place, while my men where dying northwards, trying to defend it. Is this an attempt to portray the kind of 'realism' that no plan survives the beginning of a battle? Is it an IQ-test for aspiring commanders? What's the deal here.