A few questions after my first play

[Gary McClellan]

First of all, be cautious about comparing much of anything in the NAP or M&P engines to the ACW engine. The split between those two engines is very long standing (20+ years at this point), and while they have many similarities, the differences will always trip you up.

Column is one of the huge issues there. It really represents different things across the engines. In NAP, it represents the classic Napoleonic Column of Attack, which is a wider, shorter formation, while in ACW it is Column of March, longer and narrower. Thus, column is penalized in ACW in ways it's not in NAP. (Incidentally, that varies in M&P. In REN, Rich doesn't penalize column in the same what that SYW does, but that's to represent the different tactical formations of the different time periods.)

I haven't played ACW in years, and not with EFOW, so I can't comment on that.

There isn't ever really a display of the immediate morale status of a unit, aside from the letter grade and possible yellow text. You won't be able to see what modifiers will be applied to the next rout phase. Probably would be nice, but this is actually the first time I've thought about it myself.