American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

All,

After testing this myself I have a theory of what is going on but I can't say I like the implication. There is a solid line of units between the wrong-way inf on the pike and the artillery at the head of this test column. The V key only shows the shadow casts by the lead arty unit, but why can't the lone cav unit see the units shaded green? My theory is that the functionality behind the 'v' key is separate from that of whether a unit is painted on screen or not. Follow me, the 3 units that are in the green shaded hexes are not visible because they are in the shadows of units that are in turn in the shadow of units in the shadow of the lead arty unit, and so on down the line. Is that the right way to do it? Is it wrong? Someone could note a shadow that is "too long" and impute the presence of additional units. It's easy enough to do by holding a paper against the screen to see which hexes are clear of the obstacle. Somebody had a programmatic decision to make and they made it. WAD I suppose.

All,

After testing this myself I have a theory of what is going on but I can't say I like the implication. There is a solid line of units between the wrong-way inf on the pike and the artillery at the head of this test column. The V key only shows the shadow casts by the lead arty unit, but why can't the lone cav unit see the units shaded green? My theory is that the functionality behind the 'v' key is separate from that of whether a unit is painted on screen or not. Follow me, the 3 units that are in the green shaded hexes are not visible because they are in the shadows of units that are in turn in the shadow of units in the shadow of the lead arty unit, and so on down the line. Is that the right way to do it? Is it wrong? Someone could note a shadow that is "too long" and impute the presence of additional units. It's easy enough to do by holding a paper against the screen to see which hexes are clear of the obstacle. Somebody had a programmatic decision to make and they made it. WAD I suppose.

All,

After testing this myself I have a theory of what is going on but I can't say I like the implication. There is a solid line of units between the wrong-way inf on the pike and the artillery at the head of this test column. The V key only shows the shadow casts by the lead arty unit, but why can't the lone cav unit see the units shaded green? My theory is that the functionality behind the 'v' key is separate from that of whether a unit is painted on screen or not. Follow me, the 3 units that are in the green shaded hexes are not visible because they are in the shadows of units that are in turn in the shadow of units in the shadow of the lead arty unit, and so on down the line. Is that the right way to do it? Is it wrong? Someone could note a shadow that is "too long" and impute the presence of additional units. It's easy enough to do by holding a paper against the screen to see which hexes are clear of the obstacle. Somebody had a programmatic decision to make and they made it. WAD I suppose.