Battleground Civil War questions

[Kingmaker]

HiHi

Hello Alsistair and welcome to the Ladder, in answer to your questions

Q1 yes you can use skirmishers in every game (units diolouge/deploy-recall skirmishers), it extends by 1 hex the sight for the 3 front facing hex sides of your unit, you will see a Blue or Buff ? if enemy units occupy the hex but no details as to the unit (unless you can see them anyhow) if FoW is on (not sure without, never use it)

The unit must be over 100 strong and not disrupted to deploy (note, units that already have skirmishers deployed and then become disrupted still keep their skirmishers, as do units that drop below 100 through combat loss)

It costs 1 movement point to deploy-recall, and an extra 1pt when advancing, I think in combat the firepower of the unit is redused by 100, but not sure, I just bang away & hope :-)

Q2 Yes cav can do all those things when mounted and as far as I know they melee at their unit strenght. Word of Warning re Chickamauga, they altered the rules slightly there and cav will disrupt when monting/dismounting if not done on a road/trail or on a clear Hex, so for eg if you want to advance cav in line through some woods do it before entering the woods! Cav can also deploy skirmishers, but remember cav are like arty, when deployed into line they cant fire in that turns Offensive fire phase.

Suggest when you are ready for combat with real folk you do a small battle eg 'Give them rocks' (4 turns) off BR to get a feel for the game against real inteligance you also get out of Bootcamp quicker.

Gonna see if I can find a post I did sometime ago which has dropped of the front page, it has some tips for Bootcampers, I'll give it a nudge up the posts. It ain't pretty as it's cut & paste from various emails but there may be some stuff there you find useful.

Hope this answers your questions OK, come back if not.

All the Best
Peter

All the best
Peter