Seems like 1500 man brigades, and 500-600 man cav, 350 man snipers, and 12 gun batteries of 20lb and 24lbers for the Union will dominate the battlefield and reduce scaling. Seems like more of them fit in woods and they move faster and use less ammo
25:38 (1hr 17m GT) Left wheel forward, Advance! You could have rolled up his left flank and trapped him against the two rivers and completely wrecked his army. Good job getting those guns and a well fought battle.
Congratulations, that is a hard battle on Legendary, and you got through it in great shape. - Check with pandakraut on the optimum size of units. Units over 2,000 become slow and difficult to maneuver. Melee cav is fine at 750, but rifle cav gets a debuff starting at about 360. - I recommend buying all of the good artillery. This is a great battle for 24 h and 20 P. Naps and 6 pds are already obsolete.
Just in case you hadn't seen it. The Grand Tactician has a YTube channel up with a few battle vids. The features are just amazing. If they can pull this off it may be the best Civil War game to date. No vids on the grand strategy campaign portions yet but I think they said they are coming. Graphics need some polish. I'm fired up about this one. Projected release date late 2019.
30:23 My name is Horn and I had no idea it was an option for a commander’s name. Unfortunately all of the Horns in my family fought for Alabama, but I did have one other ancestors fight in the Lightning Brigade
As always good job on using the terrain to further increase your advantage,your strategy and tactics are effective.Especially the cavalry charge.Watch out rebs!
Riverbeds are the most powerful thing if used properly, you want your troops to be just about in range when the enemy is inside it, not a second earlier or else you do it wrong. 85% damage taken 24% cover on open terrain, 100% and 0% cover in river beds. Using riverbeds properly allows you to shred huge numbers of enemies in no time on Shiloh, gains mill and onwards. It's a bid cheese to exploit the ai that way but that's often your only advantage left.
This level is easy. Simple rush your army over to the woods on the far left. There are only a few river crossing and with some cannons it makes it impossible for CS to dig you out. Then when you reinforcements arrive, have them setup in the woods surrounding the objective on the bottom left. CS will attack south an then you move your army on the left east to take North Malvern hill. I only lost 1,500 men on legendary and killed like 8k.
Good stuff! I did somewhat similar tactic on MG but I just pulled my main army to the left side of the map at the very beginning. Waited him to push towards the Left/Right hills and just back-capped the north hill at the last minute. Considering the difficulty, I saved a lot of money and men. Thinking of doing a Legendary run on Union and wondering if you would suggest 1500 or 2k brigades?
I am really struggling with this game, and particularly this battle. I think it is scaling that is screwing me. I have fewer troops in the battle than you do, but the enemy forces are WAY more. From a previous battle I had started a third corps, but they are not fielded on this battle. Is scaling adding more enemy troops based on my total number in the camp phase? Are the enemy getting more troops due to troops I am not even bringing to the battle?
Good job on the win! Suggestion on 2nd Bull Run. (I know you like to finish it on the 1st day.): Defend most of the time. He will attack you. Use sharpshooters to harass his army. Wait it out till day day2 when you have to hold henry hill. You can wipe out his army. Then send a couple cav units to take the victory location.
to be honest, i don't believe this legendary mode, because you need everything in the battle of malvern hill, all your recruits, all the money to have the same army cuff like you, did it multiple times and each time i have the same fact at malvern hill. i never had a corps counting 50.000 strong at the battle. you can barely recruit 36.000 recruits at that time. so i'm sorry this is easy mode, because at the beginning of the battle on legendary their army strikes as one not in single regiments at a time. second the second wave, they attack again with a full corps, didn't happen only 12.500 reinforced the confederates, the second wave contains dubble on legendary
Look at the two stars in the top left corner in the army build screen. On easy mode that would be a bird for a colonel. On Brigadier General it's one star, and on Legendary and Major General it shows two stars. It all depends on what you do in the campaign up to this point. Just because it never happened for you doesn't mean other people aren't more successful.
@@TheHistoryGuy alright you are right no comments, i almost do the same like you but at the beginning when i'm starting the firts wave its one huge mob of confederates continously charging from the forest and river crossing its just insane, and at the end good thinking about your cav division, i always do it with skirmishers you know you just leave them on the left in the forest and when they are forming up and attacking your line move in with the skirmishers like a fake line and one regiment on the capture point. and the main reason why i don't bring cav is to have a larger infantry or artillery force. and again sorry for not seeing the generals badge actually didn't thought about it to check it, and yeah i was to fast with judging so my apoligizes. keep up what you do and what you love
Seems like 1500 man brigades, and 500-600 man cav, 350 man snipers, and 12 gun batteries of 20lb and 24lbers for the Union will dominate the battlefield and reduce scaling. Seems like more of them fit in woods and they move faster and use less ammo
Also scaling takes into account average brigade size. So a division of 500 man brigades can help reduce scaling.
25:38 (1hr 17m GT) Left wheel forward, Advance!
You could have rolled up his left flank and trapped him against the two rivers and completely wrecked his army. Good job getting those guns and a well fought battle.
Congratulations, that is a hard battle on Legendary, and you got through it in great shape.
- Check with pandakraut on the optimum size of units. Units over 2,000 become slow and difficult to maneuver. Melee cav is fine at 750, but rifle cav gets a debuff starting at about 360.
- I recommend buying all of the good artillery. This is a great battle for 24 h and 20 P. Naps and 6 pds are already obsolete.
Yeah I'm not planning to go any higher than 2k on the infantry brigades
I really enjoyed your strategy in this battle. That was fun.
Just in case you hadn't seen it. The Grand Tactician has a YTube channel up with a few battle vids. The features are just amazing. If they can pull this off it may be the best Civil War game to date. No vids on the grand strategy campaign portions yet but I think they said they are coming. Graphics need some polish. I'm fired up about this one. Projected release date late 2019.
I hadn't seen it yet. They're supposed to have me on their press list. Thanks for the heads up!
Looks pretty cool!
30:23 My name is Horn and I had no idea it was an option for a commander’s name. Unfortunately all of the Horns in my family fought for Alabama, but I did have one other ancestors fight in the Lightning Brigade
I can just imagine hearing the Battlefield 1 Apocalypse DLC Attackers Advance theme play when the battle of Malvern Hill starts
As always good job on using the terrain to further increase your advantage,your strategy and tactics are effective.Especially the cavalry charge.Watch out rebs!
That password alert around 20:10 scared me until I noticed it was in the video.
Outstanding job and well done
Riverbeds are the most powerful thing if used properly, you want your troops to be just about in range when the enemy is inside it, not a second earlier or else you do it wrong.
85% damage taken 24% cover on open terrain, 100% and 0% cover in river beds.
Using riverbeds properly allows you to shred huge numbers of enemies in no time on Shiloh, gains mill and onwards.
It's a bid cheese to exploit the ai that way but that's often your only advantage left.
This level is easy. Simple rush your army over to the woods on the far left. There are only a few river crossing and with some cannons it makes it impossible for CS to dig you out. Then when you reinforcements arrive, have them setup in the woods surrounding the objective on the bottom left. CS will attack south an then you move your army on the left east to take North Malvern hill. I only lost 1,500 men on legendary and killed like 8k.
Interesting strategy. I was thinking if the water debuf was worth having your troops in the open. Seemed to work out well.
well done
Good stuff! I did somewhat similar tactic on MG but I just pulled my main army to the left side of the map at the very beginning. Waited him to push towards the Left/Right hills and just back-capped the north hill at the last minute. Considering the difficulty, I saved a lot of money and men. Thinking of doing a Legendary run on Union and wondering if you would suggest 1500 or 2k brigades?
I am really struggling with this game, and particularly this battle. I think it is scaling that is screwing me. I have fewer troops in the battle than you do, but the enemy forces are WAY more. From a previous battle I had started a third corps, but they are not fielded on this battle. Is scaling adding more enemy troops based on my total number in the camp phase? Are the enemy getting more troops due to troops I am not even bringing to the battle?
Would artillery be effective firing in or through the woods?
it looks like every your brigade has just wipe out a whole entir CSA brigade :)
So many cannon and enemy supplies you could have captured
Good job on the win! Suggestion on 2nd Bull Run. (I know you like to finish it on the 1st day.): Defend most of the time. He will attack you. Use sharpshooters to harass his army. Wait it out till day day2 when you have to hold henry hill. You can wipe out his army. Then send a couple cav units to take the victory location.
Yeah, I've been thinking about that battle and I'll definitely be looking at dragging it out to inflict more casualties.
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YOU ALWAYS NEED SUPPIES!-Your always complaining about the LACK of them at the end of every battle...lol
to be honest, i don't believe this legendary mode, because you need everything in the battle of malvern hill, all your recruits, all the money to have the same army cuff like you, did it multiple times and each time i have the same fact at malvern hill. i never had a corps counting 50.000 strong at the battle. you can barely recruit 36.000 recruits at that time. so i'm sorry this is easy mode, because at the beginning of the battle on legendary their army strikes as one not in single regiments at a time. second the second wave, they attack again with a full corps, didn't happen only 12.500 reinforced the confederates, the second wave contains dubble on legendary
Look at the two stars in the top left corner in the army build screen. On easy mode that would be a bird for a colonel. On Brigadier General it's one star, and on Legendary and Major General it shows two stars. It all depends on what you do in the campaign up to this point. Just because it never happened for you doesn't mean other people aren't more successful.
@@TheHistoryGuy alright you are right no comments, i almost do the same like you but at the beginning when i'm starting the firts wave its one huge mob of confederates continously charging from the forest and river crossing its just insane, and at the end good thinking about your cav division, i always do it with skirmishers you know you just leave them on the left in the forest and when they are forming up and attacking your line move in with the skirmishers like a fake line and one regiment on the capture point. and the main reason why i don't bring cav is to have a larger infantry or artillery force. and again sorry for not seeing the generals badge actually didn't thought about it to check it, and yeah i was to fast with judging so my apoligizes. keep up what you do and what you love