Beating Washington on legendary

[godspeedthunder]

For some reason no matter what I do I can't get to Washington with more than 60k troops. If it's not too much hassle can someone who has completed this mission please tell me how many troops they had lost before this Battle. If you have the save before Washington then the easiest way to find out is to lose the Washington Battle so the end game stats page comes up which tells you so u don't have to do the maths for each individual Battle yourself. Obviously this includes troops given to you that arnt yours but I'm guessing they won't affect the totals too much.

My k/d tally leading up to Washington is 575k/250k.

I tried to kill as many troops as possible on most maps (which cost me a lot of men) as I thought that would reduce how many troops they would have at Washington but I have heard that their numbers are set for that Battle. So would I have been better off preserving my troops instead? The only Battle that I lost a lot of troops at was chickamauga (24k) but I can't see how I could have done better in that Mission.

I lost 13k at Gettysburg
9k at cold harbor
6k at chancellorsville
13k at stones river (should have done better)
13k at fredericksburg
I skipped antietam because... lol
14k at 2nd bull run (I tried to kill as many as I could and lost a lot doing so)
16k at Malvern hill (again tried to kill as many as possible)
3k gaines mill
14k shiloh (most not mine)

So I lost a lot through trying to kill as many as possible but I don't see how that was beneficial so should I have preserved my army?

Thanks in advance for advice!

[pandakraut]

Ursprungligen skrivet av CivWar64:

Ursprungligen skrivet av pandakraut:

@godspeedthunder first few videos up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVqJputCaKc&list=PLNFTAFys32_-N-fIfWJgRSJIhVtOZjEGe

Nicely Done!

a) I've never thought to try to push out enemy skirmishers by advancing my own. I always sit and exchange and then advance infantry to push them out. Enemy skirms really retreat when your own skirms advance?

b) Never thought to empty out the fort and try to catch them at the river in part 2. Very novel idea!

c) BTW..in my Legendary CSA, I had time to wipe them out all the way West, and then go take the fort. I rest until closer to an 1 hour left to take the fort. That's usually enough.

a) Skirmishing logic is basically 'am I reloading and is an enemy unit within a specific range, determined by comparing both units weapon ranges, of me? then fall back' So you can just walk them out most times though larger units will charge you. Sometimes directly targetting them will also get them to move, I try it when I'm taking the treeline in the 2nd phase. But if they are in a firing animation you have to wait.

b) Mostly figured this one out from playing earlier versions of the Rebalance mod. It was nearly impossible to hold the fortifications and you couldn't hit the ironclads so some alternative was needed. That's since been fixed, but it's a useful alternative in the base game as well.

c) I'm sure it's possible, I tried it a few times and things just weren't working out so I decided not to bother. Having to play the battle yet another time was not worth the potential benefit. In retrospect I should have just sent 3-4 detached skirmishers to push them into the corner and slowly shoot them to death while I take the fort. Assuming a normal playthrough where the third infantry unit doesn't abandon the fort and throw everything off.

[godspeedthunder]

Ursprungligen skrivet av pandakraut:

@godspeedthunder first few videos up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVqJputCaKc&list=PLNFTAFys32_-N-fIfWJgRSJIhVtOZjEGe

Awesome I look forward to watching your playthrough!

I feel a bit burnt out on UGCW at the moment as I played all day everyday for about 2 weeks so I'm having a rest and will come back to it soon. I'm currently at chickamauga on my union Legendary campaign, I feel like it's going well so far but as this is my first playthrough as union I'm not sure what to expect in each Battle which is quite fun tbh. I'm sure I will return to the game in a few weeks, in the mean time I look forward to watching your vids!

[godspeedthunder]

Ursprungligen skrivet av pandakraut:

@godspeedthunder first few videos up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVqJputCaKc&list=PLNFTAFys32_-N-fIfWJgRSJIhVtOZjEGe

nice first mission, I cant wait to see the rest! are you going to be uploading it to youtube or just on steam?

[pandakraut]

I didn't realize the steam link wasn't going to the full playlist. Videos are on youtube up through Stay Alert so far.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNFTAFys32_-N-fIfWJgRSJIhVtOZjEGe