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Attaching a Regiment to a different brigade:

Hey, I didn’t know this until tonight, but during a battle three of my Brigades were several miles in front of the main body, when they came upon a large enemy corps.

I placed two of the three brigades in line formation facing the enemy troops, and tried to keep the third brigade in reserve until more help arrived.

The smart choice here would have been to place the brigades farther back towards the help that was marching towards them, but I was determined to hold the cross-roads.

Well, the enemy troops did a very good job of matching my two brigades with two of their own, and also moving a brigade to the left of my battle-line.

I started moving the third brigade to the left, when I noticed that another enemy brigade was moving behind the enemy lines to deploy on my right. I then did something that I haven’t done in years, I split the third brigade into two-brigades using the detach option.

This allowed me to send three-regiments under a brigade leader to the left, and two-regiments under a brigade leader to the right to buy some time.

A lot of words here, but I’m getting to the point….. shortly.

Well, the make-shift brigade with the two regiments holding the right of the line suffered several hundred casualties, but they did slow-down the advancing enemy troops.

Now, as far as I know it is impossible to attach another regiment from a different brigade to this make-shift-brigade using the attach option.

So, I took the largest brigade that I had (i.e…General Gordon) consisting of six-regiments, and detached it into two-brigades.

Now, General Gordon is still commanding three of the six-regiments, and a no-name officer is in charge of the other three-regiments.

Now, I split the no-name-officer with three-regiments into another brigade using the detach option. This will place one-regiment under another no-name-officer.

This brigade with the one-regiment can now be assigned to the brigade that was formally on the right-of-the-line that lost several hundred men, boosting their number.

The other brigade that I split off of General Gordon’s brigade can now be re-assigned back to General Gordon using the attach option.

If, anybody else knew this, well it’s new to me!

davinci

I have always been a fan of this technique and I hope the game engine will allow us to reassign brigades to different divisions. This would be very useful in MP.

New to me also, not surprisingly. Never thought to try it, but I have wished for it on many occasions. I'll have to play around with that.

I have always been a fan of this technique and I hope the game engine will allow us to reassign brigades to different divisions. This would be very useful in MP.

Yeah, if it happened on the field historically, you should be able to do it on the game. You've probably noticed in Chancellorsville
, the reb forces are all mixed up, with brigades getting reassigned all over the place. I think this would be especially useful in the strategic layer.

I would love someday to be able to transfer control of units in MP -- but I don't know how the code is set up, it's possible it would be really hard to implement that in which case it's not worth spending time on.

Or ideally, a way to share control of units so multiple players can order them. Again -- quite possibly not worth the effort.

I have always been a fan of this technique and I hope the game engine will allow us to reassign brigades to different divisions. This would be very useful in MP.

New to me also, not surprisingly. Never thought to try it, but I have wished for it on many occasions. I'll have to play around with that.

I’m going to play around with the gui.csv file to see if it is possible to transfer different brigades into another division.

It might not be written in the code to transfer units from one division to another, but sometimes you can by-pass the code and make it do something else.

It’s worth spending several hours this weekend to try to come up with something either way, meaning if it works that would be alright, if it doesn’t….oh…well!

But, I sort of like trying to do things that the game wasn’t meant to do!

davinci

hey how do i get a canon?
i keep asking captain James A Hall but i never get one!

t-storm

hey how do i get a canon?
i keep asking captain James A Hall but i never get one!
t-storm

So, that I understand this correctly, you are sending a courier message to Captain-James-Hall, and asking that he send a single cannon to you?

If that's it, I'm not sure that that is possible by going through Captain Hall.

I would think that you would have to send it to the individual cannon but that is just a guess, I have never tried it.

Or, are you talking about something else?

davinci

well i mean i was asking the canon crew for it but nothing
and i captured a canon but i cant use it why?

t-storm

@t-storm: please have a look at the thread you started on this topic

http://www.norbsoftdev.net/forum/40-dis ... mes-a-hall

A few people have made suggestions. You need to tell us, on that thread, exactly what you are doing. Try not to assume we know what you mean. HTH.