DBMcWaters wrote:
Just ran across a possible bug in the Gettysburg module (4.03)...
Initiated melee with one unit of J. Davis's brigade against 1 Union cavalry unit. Davis was with the unit meleeing.
Result of the melee was that the Union cavalry unit was eliminated. Somehow, J Davis was captured during this...
Does that seem logical? Maybe I'm just not thinking carefully, but seems weird that a leader could be captured by a unit that is eliminated during a melee...I mean, if they captured me and then all got killed, I'm going back to my lines.... not being a gentleman and saying, "See y'all later, boys - they got me fair and square! Going to turn myself in!"
That's very funny.
I agree with Mike's analysis that such a thing has always been a possibility.
Another thing is that officers can be captured by routing units. In one MP game we lost General Longstreet to a small band of crazed Yankees who routed behind our lines. We wiped them out soon afterwards [I think our very next turn] but there was no sign of General Longstreet. He must have wandered through our lines to let the enemy know he was a prisoner of theirs.