gwgardner

What a great game. So much good, but there are some features that make it impossible for me to play extensively. Right now it's just an arcade game. I personally would like a more historical simulation. Some people don't want a historical simulation. I get that. But for those that do, I think the following are needed: 1) Capability for a much reduced speed of play. 2) The fixed formations feature is a huge abstraction. We need column, the various line formations, realistic skirmisher formations, cavalry mount and dismount, artillery limber and unlimber. 3) One of the most irksome features of the game currently is the existence of completely ahistorical skirmisher formations. Please get rid of them. When I play right now, I just hide those units off in the back and never touch them.

I hope that the developers provide the necessary capability for the player to change formations, allowing for a unit to send out skirmishers and call them back. I very much dislike the ahistorical existence of permanent skirmisher units in the game. I'm not referring to dismounted cavalry, but infantry skirmishers. As the game is set up now, I would personally have to use a 'house rule' attaching a skirmusher unit to an infantry unit, sending it forward when needed, then hiding it behind the line when 'called back.' Thus simulating the actual use of skirmishers. For an otherwise fine-looking game, the existence of the separate skirmisher units is an unfortunate 'compromise.'

I haven't played the game, but am on the verge of getting it. One of the elements that was appealing was the promise of historical OOBs. Historically were there Confederate dismounted cavalry involved in the opening engagement at Gettysburg? I've seen them in the game's youtube videos, situated between Davis's and Archer's brigades, advancing on McPherson's ridge. I can't recall ever reading about a dismounted Confederate cavalry unit making that assault.

I thought that in real life skirmishers were sent forward from a regiment/brigade, to screen, scout, disperse And then brought back in when the unit was to go into a different formation. Why are skirmishers treated as completely separate units in the game?