American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

The rules for damaging bridges are a little vague as to the procedure for accomplishing the task. I realize it says you can fire artillery or perform melee to damage a bridge. What is the exact procedure for performing melee against a bridge. I have tried it and I'm guessing I'm doing something incorrectly as I have not succeeded in damaging the bridge. A little clarification on this would be greatly appreciated.

CE Trog
CPT, USA
6th Artillery Bde
III Div/XVI Corps
Army of the Tennessee

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"My aim was to whip the rebels. To humble their pride. To follow them to their innermost recesses and to make them fear and dread us. War is cruelty! There is no use in trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

-<i>William Tecumseh Sherman</i>-

"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."

- <i>William Lloyd Garrison</i> -

The usual procedure of drag and drop doesn't work on bridges. During the melee phase you must right click on the bridge. This should mark it with the melee target symbol. Then you select the unit that is going to melee it and use the menu item for "Add" under the "Melee" drop down menu to add the unit to the attack. I don't have the game open so the text on these might be slightly different.

Also, if memory serves, only one unit can melee a bridge so pick the biggest you have. I don't know why they made that restriction.

LG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
1/1/III AoM (CSA)

Hi, General,

You are right about the procedure. Just wanted to point out that all the adjacent units in a stack can attack the bridge; they just have to do it one melee at a time.

MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA

Or if no melee phase.

You select the hex the bridge is on, go up to the menu for melee and select "Begin melee" and then select a unit to "Add" to melee. Then execute melee and do again for more adjacent units.

Major General Thompson
Chief of Staff
AoS

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Also, if memory serves, only one unit can melee a bridge so pick the biggest you have. I don't know why they made that restriction.
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Frontage restrictions I guess. The same reason as why only one unit at a time can occupy a bridge.

Gen. Walter, USA
<i>The Blue Blitz</i>
3/2/VIII AoS

West Point Class of '01

There's no restriction on how many units can melee a bridge, as long as they're in the same appropriate hex.

Sincerely,
Lt Gen Dwight McBride
V Corps/AOP/USA

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There's no restriction on how many units can melee a bridge, as long as they're in the same appropriate hex.

Sincerely,
Lt Gen Dwight McBride
V Corps/AOP/USA
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What is the appropriate hex to melee a bridge from?

Vis a vis distance and facing of meleeing unit.

Same hex? Adjacent hex in very front facing?

CE Trog
CPT, USA
6th Artillery Bde
III Div/XVI Corps
Army of the Tennessee

E-Mail cetrog@comcast.net

"My aim was to whip the rebels. To humble their pride. To follow them to their innermost recesses and to make them fear and dread us. War is cruelty! There is no use in trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

-<i>William Tecumseh Sherman</i>-

"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."

- <i>William Lloyd Garrison</i> -

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There's no restriction on how many units can melee a bridge, as long as they're in the same appropriate hex.

Sincerely,
Lt Gen Dwight McBride
V Corps/AOP/USA
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What is the appropriate hex to melee a bridge from?

<font color="red">either end of the bridge hex</font id="red">

Vis a vis distance and facing of meleeing unit.

<font color="red">adjacent to and facing the bridge hex you are trying to destroy. Other restrictions are that you can't have moved, fired or meleed in that player turn. The unit must also be in good order.

It is interesting to note that when you are repairing a bridge, the repairing unit must be in column (I assume mounted for cavalry), but to destroy a bridge formation doesn't matter.</font id="red">



Same hex? Adjacent hex in very front facing?



CE Trog
CPT, USA
6th Artillery Bde
III Div/XVI Corps
Army of the Tennessee

E-Mail cetrog@comcast.net

"My aim was to whip the rebels. To humble their pride. To follow them to their innermost recesses and to make them fear and dread us. War is cruelty! There is no use in trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

-<i>William Tecumseh Sherman</i>-

"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."

- <i>William Lloyd Garrison</i> -
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MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA

Thank you, gentlemen.

CE Trog
CPT, USA
6th Artillery Bde
III Div/XVI Corps
Army of the Tennessee

E-Mail cetrog@comcast.net

"My aim was to whip the rebels. To humble their pride. To follow them to their innermost recesses and to make them fear and dread us. War is cruelty! There is no use in trying to reform it. The crueler it is the sooner it will be over."

-<i>William Tecumseh Sherman</i>-

"I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice... I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard."

- <i>William Lloyd Garrison</i> -