Help understanding digging in

[nhill40]

You guys are great, thank you again - this is very helpful.

The manual certainly isn't terrible by any stretch, but I've found it does have a tendency to deep-dive some relatively arcane corner cases while at the same time glossing over what I feel are some very core game mechanics...that can make a noob's life challenging! ;)

I predict my next question might perhaps be on cavalry (I'm looking at France '14) as I am running into additional confusion there, but I see that the notes have extensive comments on cavalry so I want to make sure I give those a good read-through first.