Historical Tactics

[Outlaw Josey Wales]

As realistic as you can get is the way to go as well as playing totally blind. I try to play by doing things that I think was possible then and had read in books somewhere. Example in ACW is I don't attack in column. I only remember one in the books I've read and taht was Burnside's Bridge at Antietam. There may be others, I just don't remember. Of course the only way to cross a bridge or ford is in column, but for me, there will be no other column attacks except mounted cav. I won't do it with inf because it just wasn't done that way. That's why I don't play Naps because I would always end up fighting like ACW. I can't get the hang of Naps, they don't move and fight like ACW. It's sad too, because one of the things about wargaming is the attraction to multinationalities which always peaks my interest. WW2 and Modern campaigns are big attractions for me because of that plus I've been reading about ww2 my whole life and I was a two time volunteer in modern times. I tried ww1, but I've been spoiled by ww2 and modern, so it doesn't work for me even with the multinationalities.