Playing a Peninsular campaign battle, my opponenent had some units rout beind my lines. I thought my lines were fairly tight but still they were behind me - most unbeknownst to me. I did discover two of them: one was a normal stabilized unitand another a disrupted unit. My opponent used both of them to over-run two batteries of 6 and 4 guns. Now my opponent was playing within the game system so its not something I can change other than whine like I'm doing now. Its just that 1)units that rout behind enemy lines should never reach "normal" status until they reach their own lines. They should at least stay at "disrupted" and never be able to melee or over-run any enemy unit other than a supply wagon ( which could re-arm them).
2) they should remain at "low on ammo" repreesenting the fact that routing troops tend to throw down their guns when they skeedadle unless- like I said earlier- they can get their hands on a supply wagon - then they could be armed but still at "disrupted" status.
In other words, a player should not be able to take advantage of these routed units that somehow get behind the opponents lines. My opponent was able to get to get to an mv which I had up to now been successful in preventing.
MG Drex Ringbloom,
Cdr, 2nd Div "Corcoran's Legion", VIII Corps
Army of the Shenandoah
