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That's true, detached skirmishers do cause confusion in some of my battles, like Chickamauga! Sometimes I find that they and cavalry units get in the way when I need to plug a gap in the line with fresh infantry. I've found that skirmishers require a good bit of micromanagement too; you have to tell them to hold if you don't want them wandering all over the place!

Footnotes and citing of sources are critical to the historian--they allow us to go to the author's source of information. This in turn enables us to see whether the content in question is valid or not. Without documentation, a piece of info could have come from a local liquor store owner or from MAD Magazine for all we know. Regardless, I enjoyed Foote's narrative immensely--Bruce Catton's, too. Interestingly, Catton was a novelist by trade, like Foote.

I do something similar--once my brigades have reached two stars I'll try to get them better weapons and customize their names so I can recognize my most reliable troops on the field. Currently, my elite infantry brigades are The Coffee Coolers (a period term for slackers!), Walker's Tigers, the Palmetto Rifles, Daniel's Legion, etc. I do the same thing for cavalry units. With artillery units I'll attach the name "Rifles" after the commander's name, to show me which units have rifled guns. I haven't generally created skirmisher units; if I need skirmishers during a battle, I detach them from my infantry, which was done historically---so I usually sell or pass on to the cavalry any skirmisher weapons I capture. Except Spencers! I will form skirmisher units if I get enough of those.

Thanks so much for the Shift key tip, Soldier! I have to admit I feel a bit silly now, because I've since discovered that the issue was with my mouse, not with the game. I just plugged in a new mouse and everything's fine now. However, you did let me know about the alternate method of wheeling brigades, so my post wasn't totally in vain LOL! I like your signature--I read somewhere that Confederate General D.H. Hill once said that "Confederate infantry, fighting side by side with Federal artillery, need fear no foe on Earth."

I've noticed a new problem in the game. Previously, I've been able to hold the right click mouse button to rotate a brigade to the desired facing. Now, much of the time, it doesn't work well--it results in the brigade moving instead of wheeling. Also, I used to be able to draw a line with the mouse to make several brigades form a line in the desired location. Usually this no longer works; the brigades will march and form a line in a different location from the facing I want to put them in. All this makes gameplay maddening and nearly impossible. Did one of the recent patches break something here?