Campaign scenario issues

[MikeK]

Conflict at Brenner's Hill (Late July 3) as Union, the scenario says we are facing constant attack but the troop totals are 45K USA and 39K CSA though the CSA has more guns (reinforced totals).  

 

Trying to work through the phases, in the immediately preceding fight over Cemetery Ridge and the eastern hills, after some set up I mainly practiced maneuvering some troops in the rear area and launching one big cavalry charge and then let the Union troops do as they liked.  The Confederates pushed forward to take the 10,000 VP on the ridge but after that did very little to press forward anywhere in an organized way. Some of their cavalry swished back and forth just ahead of their VP objective and beside a resting infantry brigade without making an attack.  Artillery bombarded in a desultory fashion.  Otherwise all was static.  A brigade advanced to exchange fire, then retired, then another one.  Eventually time ran out - the AI was not interested in improving its position at the front.

 

In this battle, hands off, the CS takes Cem Ridge, Culps Hill and eventually Benner's, though Benner's is the easiest at the extremity of the right and vulnerable it takes the longest.  Stuarts's horsemen pushed south past behind it and eventually into the US reinforcements - the AI turns some units to face - and fights its own battle behind the lines before eventually charging at the objective and disrupting the defenders enough for the infantry on the far side to press forward. The AI could and should have concentrated more troops against that objective (and guarded its first VP on Cem Ridge more strongly, as it was fairly open to a counterattack with the CS forces massed against Culps and at the bottom of the map.

 

That large concentration against the Union extreme left wing at the bottom of the map is a curious thing.  It is against a a hill originally held for the Union but of no VP or other real importance and far from the closest (Cem Ridge) VP taken. That hill only has value as a threat to CS troops trying to sweep past and break through the Union left, which is a moot issue once Cem Ridge is taken.

 

Custer's cavalry seemed to have a mind of their own when Stuart's were running nearby. Is there a particular reaction dynamic for cavalry vs. cavalry?

 

Result- Valiant Defeat evening of July 3.