How does one win ??

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How does one win ??

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Played the Meridith's Brigade scenario. Held the ridge and inflicted more casualties than I took. Lost!

Played the Barksdale's Brigade scenario. Took the Peach Orchard and again inflicted more damage than I suffered. The scenario would not end. Resigned and lost again.

Am I doing something wrong?
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Johnnie wrote:
Played the Meridith's Brigade scenario. Held the ridge and inflicted more casualties than I took. Lost!

Played the Barksdale's Brigade scenario. Took the Peach Orchard and again inflicted more damage than I suffered. The scenario would not end. Resigned and lost again.

Am I doing something wrong?
In both of these scenarios you have to immediately take the Objectives and hold them. The Peach Orchard is especially hard. Keep trying, you'll beat them. :)
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To secure objectives you need to move a unit commander (at least Brig) to it, not only a regiment, right?

With the Iron Brigade scenario, you can then only hold either the Ridge or the woods... right?

I am having similar problems as OP.
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There needs to be an officer and a certain amount of soldiers. You can see how many from the tool tip on the map screen.
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zSkender wrote:
To secure objectives you need to move a unit commander (at least Brig) to it, not only a regiment, right?

With the Iron Brigade scenario, you can then only hold either the Ridge or the woods... right?

I am having similar problems as OP.
With Iron Brigade scenario, hold the woods Objective and ignore the ridge Objective.
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Also, make sur eyou play until time runs out. The Scenario will end, eventually.

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Peach Orchard...how to win...

Double quick your two left most regiments toward the red barn to take on artillery there in the area while the third regiment charges the skirmishers to clear them out and your far right regiment goes straight for the crossroads at the Peach Orchard and engages the Federals there. You'll end up having to charge and melee a few times to move them out but you should have suppport coming up from Wofford & Kershaw by the time you do it...so cross your fingers your boys don't retreat before then. I held the objective about 20 minutes...oh, and definitely send requests for artillery support!
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14GA wrote:
Peach Orchard...how to win...

Double quick your two left most regiments toward the red barn to take on artillery there in the area while the third regiment charges the skirmishers to clear them out and your far right regiment goes straight for the crossroads at the Peach Orchard and engages the Federals there. You'll end up having to charge and melee a few times to move them out but you should have suppport coming up from Wofford & Kershaw by the time you do it...so cross your fingers your boys don't retreat before then. I held the objective about 20 minutes...oh, and definitely send requests for artillery support!
Was this a 3000+ Major Victory played on 'Normal' difficulty?
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RebBugler wrote:
14GA wrote:
Peach Orchard...how to win...

Double quick your two left most regiments toward the red barn to take on artillery there in the area while the third regiment charges the skirmishers to clear them out and your far right regiment goes straight for the crossroads at the Peach Orchard and engages the Federals there. You'll end up having to charge and melee a few times to move them out but you should have suppport coming up from Wofford & Kershaw by the time you do it...so cross your fingers your boys don't retreat before then. I held the objective about 20 minutes...oh, and definitely send requests for artillery support!
Was this a 3000+ Major Victory played on 'Normal' difficulty?

Hey RebBugler...Settings were on Seasoned and total points 2530. I imagine it may be a tad bit easier to do in Normal difficulty.
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RebBugler wrote:
14GA wrote:
Peach Orchard...how to win...

Double quick your two left most regiments toward the red barn to take on artillery there in the area while the third regiment charges the skirmishers to clear them out and your far right regiment goes straight for the crossroads at the Peach Orchard and engages the Federals there. You'll end up having to charge and melee a few times to move them out but you should have suppport coming up from Wofford & Kershaw by the time you do it...so cross your fingers your boys don't retreat before then. I held the objective about 20 minutes...oh, and definitely send requests for artillery support!
Was this a 3000+ Major Victory played on 'Normal' difficulty?

Ok, I tried it on Normal difficulty...took 5 minutes to take the Peach Orchard. Score = 2987.
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