(08-27-2021, 04:03 AM)Steel God Wrote: Alright, so I've progressed onto a second game of 1776 in an attempt to grasp this system. This scenario is a little more wide open than Bunker Hill, more space for maneuver and less of the expected routes as it were. So, we're almost 10 turns in and combat is just starting to happen and I'm noticing that units in column can melee with no apparent penalty (am I seeing that correctly)? Dare I ask if they also receive the 10% bonus for not firing before melee since they're in column? Also I have noticed that even when firing into the flank and rear of units in column they are not marked as enfiladed, that only seems to happen to units in line or extended formation. Is that also normal?
I wish I could say that I had an answer for you SG, however I did want to let you know that I am getting a lot from your posts about this period, and how you are seeing the series operating ... but more especially how it feels like it ought to be working (like in comparison to your understanding of the period and history of what you're taking on)...
The Bunker Hill material got me thinking about that battle specifically (it happened to come along right at about the same time that I had been reading Philbrick's book on Bunker Hill (technically about Boston from before the Revolution ... and I assume through to when the British evacuated.).
I plan on reading a few books on that period (well at least a couple - and then chapters in others as I come across them) -with the aim of getting a handle on the respective views from each side as to what they had hoped to accomplish (and how/why they were going to go about doing that).
In effect keep it coming.
Great stuff. :)
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1776 - 2nd attempt to understand the game
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