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Just my 2 cents but units very rarely fired from 500 yards and out. It's a waste of ammo. Put me in the camp of those who think you can tell a lot about the effectiveness of the regiment that you're in a firefight with, presuming they are well within 500 yards.

Major Bill Cirillo
3rd Brigade, 1st Div.
XX Corps, AoC, USA
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If you are using ADF to speed up melee games, you are stuck with every unit with a rifle and a target firing at any range unless you almost completely shut down Defensive Fire by setting the AI to minimum (one hex) distance. And even at 100 yards there is little an officer could tell about an enemy regiment through the smoke of battlefield conditions other than they are over there. Other than a few regiments and brigades like the Black Hat ones that had distinctive markings they had little idea who they were fighting unless they captured someone.

LG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
1/1/III AoM (CSA)
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Well, as much as I agree with you on 99% of everything else, I do think that experienced troops could tell by the rate of incoming fire when their opponents were weakening, running low on ammo, taking heavy casualties, or suffering from extreme fatigue. There are plenty of first hand accounts from fighting that would indicate that would be the case. But those would still be generalities and the specifics could not be known. After the first few volleys the smoke limited visibilty on most battlefields to the point where everything past that was guess work.

Regards,

Lt. Gen. Alan Lynn
CSA Chief of Staff
3rd Bgde, 3rd Cav Div, II Corps, AoA

God Bless <><
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Actually the best tranined troops will withhold their fire until the enemy closes and deliver volley fire. Troops using volume of fire at distance would more than likely make the wrong assumption. From my reading the better judge of the stoutness of the defense is observing whether men are leaving the line. This is something difficult to judge at distances over 100 yards as many a report of commanders confusing a redeployment of a regiment or battery as a route. For every example of a regiment "seeing" the enemy waiver and charging forward successfully you can probably find one of them charging into a redeployed line waiting for them. For everyone that "saw" the enemy line thinning you can find one where they thought the "saw" a strong position but was really held by skirmishers.

But my main complaint with the Detail Results display is in our games our 1000 foot (he grew) General already knows far more than any commander should be able to know about the enemy. Giving him even more information on troops he is not even in contact with is way to much.

LG. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
1/1/III AoM (CSA)