Scourge of War Boards

I am still heavily engaged in the scenarios at the moment - I am currently on the Jackson: Third Time's a Charm scenario, and it's lovely!

But, I've tried to do a couple of sandbox games. I choose one of the battlefields, select confederates, and then click "Corps." I was working under the assumption this would pit a confederate and union corps against one another. When my game loads, I have control of Robert E Lee. Huzzah! This is going to be great... oh wait... I only have an artillery battalion under my command!? And what's that approaching me from the distance? An entire union corps? Crap... I fast forwarded the game for several minutes and I never got any reinforcements. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong when setting the game up? :huh:

This isn't a bug. If you select an army commander (Lee) the game will randomly assign one of his corps (in the OOB structure an artillery battalion is the equivalent of a corps) as his force in a corps vs. corps battle.

Noticed exactly the same type of behavior yesterday! We were the only troops on the field...no infantry on our side at all.

J

You should use the first OOB in the list when setting up a sandbox game. That has infantry and artillery mixed in the divisions.

Garnier wrote:

You should use the first OOB in the list when setting up a sandbox game. That has infantry and artillery mixed in the divisions.

the problem is; is playing corp vs. corps, which seemed kind of funky to me too.