Scourge of War Boards

I am not sure what this tutorial is meant to teach me.

It is the one where you start by seeing off two Confederate regiments across a river, then you are told to join up with the main force taking the arty battery left flank some distance up the road. You are intercepted by a large force of confederates (or at least I was).

The first encounter is trivial. On my first attempt I tried to follow orders and road march past the intercepting confederates to take my position next to the battery but this did not go well at all as I got shot to pieces. On a second attempt I formed a defensive line and fought the enemy near the bridge until some time later the main force arrived in the enemy's rear and this time victory of sorts was achieved.

However I received messages from my commander pleading with me to take position of the left flank as ordered, even I as I was defending against about twice as many enemy regiments as I had. So i am not sure what the tutorial is trying to teach me:

a) Very little turns out as planned and whatever your orders you must adapt to the situation as you see it if necessary, or

b) You need to learn how to conduct evasive manoeuvres around enemy interference so you can reach the spot you are ordered to.

a) Very little turns out as planned and whatever your orders you must adapt to the situation as you see it if necessary.

I don't know if that's the intended lesson, but it's well worth keeping it in mind nevertheless, I've found.

Both lessons are appropriate and the other lesson is that your commander may have no idea what kind of fecal material just hit the rotating airfoil at your location. As a commander you have to use your best judgement about your situation. It is not always clear exactly what is the best move but that is the real life situation commanders have faced since armies were invented.

-Jim