<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by mihalik</i>
<br />One thing I have noticed recently is the vulnerability of crews. In previous games such as Peninsula, it seemed very difficult to kill crews, even with a large musket-armed regiment at point blank range with flanking fire. Now I have seen crews taken out fairly regularly with 400+ men at 500 yds (4 hexes) even though the batteries were in town. Using the default fire table rather than the alternate might contribute to this, because an abnormally high casualty result would be more likely. But I have reports from a friend playing the Chickamauga module who is using the alternate table that he has noticed the same phenomenon. Has something changed?
I used to advocate real crews because you had to fire at artillery a long time to have any appreciable effect. Now I advocate it because the uncrewed result is far too likely. Neither result reflects history.
MG Mike Mihalik
1/III/AoMiss/CSA
<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Mike raises two "crew" questions. (Which is why we are here, near Turner's gap, instead of 'back there', and, yet, still just barely able to make out the saintly spires of Sharpsburg's historic downtown Shaker's First Congregational Church of Former-Day-Dunkers ... and because of the apparent growing bloody-lane of concern, too, regarding thread length.)
Q1) May I assume <i>we</i> did not overlook Tiller's crew-kill formula in the users-manual or his parameter data? (something I admittedly have blown more than once.) If not, might a knowledgable soul, please, direct us to the officially sanctioned copy of Tiller's Crew Kill Probability Formula? Thank you.
Q2) Lastly, has the crew-kill formula changed <i>again</i> with Campaign Antietam as one suspects? The ususal suspects want to know.
Fld. Lt. D. Shoeless, CSA
Secretary of the Cabinet (Ret)
1st Tenn Provisional Army
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