Ageod Games - PBEM Matchmaking

Strategy

• Supply is key; control/destroy supply sources; block supply lines using
MC/guerillas/cavalry; keep supply from your enemy forces.
• Defend objectives and anything the enemy values.
• Out maneuver your opponent; use ground to your advantage; “Get there
first with the most.”
• Look for a decisive battle with Lee/Jackson in open terrain and clear
weather.
• Keep an eye on the weather and its effects.
• Form a continuous line of well entrenched stacks in the East; use small
units to limit flanking or entrench 2nd row fall back positions.
• Fan out small units to capture MC.
• To secure the capital, act as a fire brigade, or to reinforce with fresh
troops after a battle, keep a division in Richmond,
• When threatened, move the capital at last moment.
• Coastal, strategic cities should be garrisoned with a division, leader and
a wagon.
• Defending forces can be blended with fixed troops and new unit builds.
*The probability to destroy railroads is equal to your current power value,
with a bonus of 25 if a pillager.
• Use small garrisons combined with a fast moving hammer stack to
check raids.
• Hunt partisans units with a leaderless 2 cavalry and 1 horse artillery
stack.
• Defend Suffolk just west of Norfolk.
• Reinforce Fort Henry with a brigade or two.
• Abandon West Virginia early.
• Minimize builds and effort in Far West; burn everything.
• ASAP build militia in Jefferson City and Rollo to burn depots and tear up
rails.
• Artillery and regular infantry build in El Paso for Tucson.

Target

• Objective cities, strategic cities and tent cities,
• Cities with stars create VPs.
• Destroy elements in battle to win NM.
• Be stingy in spending NM and victory points.

Military Control

• Use units to raise MC to >75% and deny RR use and supply to the other
side.
• Fan out units to surrounding areas to grab MC in areas that maybe
become possible supply routes.
• Supply movement is blocked by <25% MC.
Watch MC, if below 5% units will shift to Orange and will attack.
• Garrison objective and strategic cities to gain VP and stop creation of
enemy units by card.
*To collect VPs you must control the location, and to control a location
with <50% loyalty, garrison with either militia/irregulars inside the city or
line infantry out or inside.

Movement

• Snow can block travel in mountains, both foot and rail.
• Unlike many other games, it’s possible to chain actions and moves by a
unit.
• Moving land or naval stacks can try to intercept a passing targeted
enemy unit.
• Don’t target a unit unless combining or intercepting; instead, target the
area to avoid canceled moves.
• Move troops in Green/Green to limit travel attrition.
• Separate units traveling to the same area on Green/Green can form up
and assault next turn.
• Always stack leaders with a unit when ending a move in hostile territory.
• To areas serviced by rail, use strategic redeployment to instantly move
generals, wagons, or support units per turn.
• Guns larger than 20 pounders slow movement.
• Transport heavy artillery with transports or RR.
*Use the development cards to build roads to transport supplies or to
increase an area's frontage.

Battles

• Frontage determines how many elements fight. Before attacking, check
the terrain overlay in the combat area to determine the number of
elements usable during any round. This is key to smaller armies
defeating more numerous opponents.
To check, click on a leader's stack and press the "7" key for a terrain
overlay. Cursor a region. A menu will pop up with the number of Line
(infantry & cavalry) and Support elements (artillery) that will fight under
that leader in that region. Extra elements count as a reserve replacing
any that withdraw/rout.
*In a structure like a city or redoubt, the defender frontage is as clear
terrain, the attacker has 25% less.
• Weather and leader's strategic rating factor into the final numbers for
combat. Frontage in clear terrain is linked to your generals' ratings.
• Out maneuver your opponent; use ground to your advantage; “Get there
first with the most.”
*Before a battle, use partisans and the destroy depot card to wreck your
opponents supply chain and to cut critical RR lines leading into key areas.
• Reinforcing corps will return to their original region after the battle.
• Small independent stacks avoid CP penalty, but risk defeat in detail by a
concentrated force.
• Militia does not hold up against regular troops.
• You need 3-1 to storm a structure.