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PostPosted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 2:46 am 
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I observed the following in an ongoing Battle of Shiloh (Historic):

A small Rebel regiment was occupying a captured Union artillery hex. A large Union regiment moved up on it's flank. In the fire phase the Rebel regiment was wiped out leaving just the crewless Union artillery unit in the hex.

Normal game mechanics at this point would have marked the hex for automatic melee entry during the coming melee phase. However, under the new rules this did not occur and since the now vacated hex contained a "Union" gun, it could not be meleed under regular melee rules.

LG. Kennon Whitehead
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Why would a crewless Union gun need to be meleed by a Union regiment? They would just occupy the hex during the next movement phase. Later, they can recrew if desired.

Lt. Col. Richard Walker
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Lt. Col. Walker,
I am assuming that the issue would be that the Union troops would be better off not firing given such a situation, and that the if they closed to shoot away the crew they would have moved to "take" the artillery unit. I would suspect many would apply the same thought about a unit destroyed by fire. "Why the open triangle, they can just take the hex next turn".
Not sure how I feel about this, as I could see points on each side of the issue, but I suspect that is what commander Whitehead is getting at.
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The whole thing would make more sense if the guns were owned by the last side occupying them. But that has already been said several times. It is interesting to note that even though the guns revert to control of the original owner, the victory hex remains in control of the last side occupying it. So if it was the last turn of the game, it might be better to melee the unit than destroy it by fire. But here is an interesting thought. Rather than have just melees allow for the extra hex, let all phasing units advance one additional hex during the melee phase, whether attacking anyone or not. Sounds logical to me.

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The problem is the presence of a gun changed what would and would not work against the hex in question. In this particular case since the objective was to occupy the hex, the unit shouldn't have fired so that it could melee normally and occupy the hex. But if the guns hadn't been present the offensive fire would have elliminated the enemy unit and the attacking regiment could have occupied the hex during melee using the auto rule and done it without being disrupted.

If one says as Rich states this is a valid handling then the lack of having a gun should have resulted in the same handling, which it doesn't. One or the other is in error but there is a game mechanics error regardless.

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Yes. That was what I was just thinking because the same thing happened to me...didn't seem to be a matter of melee, but just "walking into the hex" on the next movement turn...unless of course some Reb was close enough to it to put another enemy unit into it before my next movement phase....THEN I would have been able to melee if not disrupted and strong enough. Or am I reading this situation incorrectly? Though I do see the original point..that formerly when you wiped out a unit with gunfire, you saw a red triangle and then you could melee it...but wasn't that red triangle just a marker for a now evaporated enemy unit and as such you are entitled to "exploit" by occupying the hex? BUT since your own arty remains there you ARE already occupying it and apparently the triangle trick isn't appropos for that particular circumstance...duhh..is that the long way around the barn or what [:)] However, I may be close...Rich?

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<br />Why would a crewless Union gun need to be meleed by a Union regiment? They would just occupy the hex during the next movement phase. Later, they can recrew if desired.

Lt. Col. Richard Walker
I Corps
Army of the Mississippi
2nd Brigade, 3rd Division
"Defenders of Tennessee"
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I see what your saying. Logically, you can't melee your own unit, hence the problem (which btw is only present using MDF). I hate MDF! Sorry! So I'm not that familiar with the habits of those using MDF.

But I will try to find out if this can be addressed.

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I on the other hand have the opposite view which I will express on the other post as soon as its clarified so everyone knows what is be referred too.

Turn based play is extremely flawed. It allows tactics more appropriate to modern warfare in a game that is suppose to be about the Civil War. Panzer blitz tactics shouldn't be possible by soldiers in two rank lines. Their formations were just not capable of breakthrough attacks followed by changes of front and exploitation which that system allows.

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This problem has been fixed, and will appear with the next round of patches.

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