Scourge of War Boards

I am not aware of cavalry taking artillery either in ACW. When the Pennsylvania cavalry charged artillery at Brandy Station they charged through the guns and were unable to disable them.

In TCSM infantry could automatically crew the captured guns. In reality only certain infantry units could do this (all US regulars for instance).

There should be a probability chance that infantry in direct assault against a battery do NOT take the battery due to resistance from the battery personnel. This would more likely simulate the hand to hand fighting that took place around a battery as well as the desperate measures taken by the battery to shoot anything as quickly as possible out of the barrel. Often times in real ACW battles the guns would be fought over and change hands several times without them being recrewed each time.

Once a battery is captured and manned it was really stoooopid to see the other guns in the battery fire canister at it in TCSM. Please, please don't do this in your new game.

The charging of units should be reworked to charge an area which would mean that all units in the area would be engaged in melee. This would solve the gun by gun clickfest now in operation as well as being able to manage larger bodies of troops.

Gfran64 wrote:

Also, guns were rarely left unsupported by infantry and pickets.

So, although in TC2M cavalry is probably the best way to take artillery it is probably not historically accurate.

As you say, maybe the generals during the civil war were just too careful with their artillery, and the morale of the mounted troops just not high enough for such a suicide mission. The mechanism for capturing artillery should be there though, at least in order to punish players that don't pay attention to their guns, and if a modder wants to add cavalry with a morale high enough to charge protected artillery, something which happened in other battles (e.g. Somosierra).

I have suggestion volleys and a movement for the fire closers. We all know what a volley is and it was something that couldn't be done with TC2M. The fire closer movement should be while the line is forming the troops should open up and while it is forming the fire closers can look like the waving for the stragglers to get into line and while there shooting they should point to parts of the line and stuff.