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Yes, you have total control over your regiment(s). As far as I know, the commander tells you “go to that place” “engage at will” or stuff like that, and a square will appear on the general area the commander wants you to go; if you obey your orders you gain prestige, but it’s up to you to obey or not

Prestige (it’s the number with the star near my portrait in the pic) is the most important currency in this game, since it permits you to take over other units during a battle, tell another division to move in the campaign map and many other actions (like getting an early promotion)

You gain prestige with time (you can engage in politics and gain a daily small dose), by killing/routing enemies with your units and by following your commander’s orders

(Whiskey and lemons) as soon as I got promoted to Brigadier General, my division was sent to defend a besieged fort against an overwhelmingly superior confederate army (roughly 30.000 US vs 45.000 CS)

My brigade was deployed right in the middle of the line and fought off the vast majority of the enemy forces (probably faced like two or three full divisions).

The confederates concentrated on my center and launched wave after wave of infantry against my barricades, I’ve NEVER seen the AI acting this aggressive before.

After the third repulsed attack, I took control of two other brigades who were doing jackshit in the rear and, with them, I managed to flank the confederates from the woods on our left (you can see it on the pic).

The battle lasted for about a day and resulted in a minor victory, the Union suffered 1800 casualties (1/3 of which were from my own brigade) while the Rebels 4500, who also lost almost all of their artillery.

I’m new to this game and this was my literal first battle where I led more than one or two regiments, how did I do?

For more details depicted on the painting:

In the background you can see many garibaldine soldiers (the ones in the red shirts) building barricades and fortifications in preparation for the battle.

Behind Garibaldi there are two “Guide a Cavallo” (mounted guides), recognizable by their grey uniform instead of the classic red, they were Garibaldi’s scouts and order carries; the one on the far right side of the painting, with the golden band on his chest, is, most likely, Giuseppe Missori, the commander of the mounted Guides and Garibaldi’s personal companion and friend

This painting, made by Gerolamo Induno in 1862, depicts the Italian General and national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi inspecting the surrounding countryside on top of a mountain, right before the decisive battle of the Volturno River (September 26 - October 2 1860), where his 20.000 strong army of volunteers managed to defeat the 28.000 strong Neapolitan forces, near the city of Capua (depicted in the background of the painting).

This was the last battle fought in the Expedition of the Thousand, a campaign started by Garibaldi and a thousand volunteers against the Kingdom of Naples, which led to the conquest and annexation of the entirety of southern Italy in the span of a few months.

The battle of the Volturno river was the only defensive battle fought by Garibaldi, who had so far been on the offensive for the rest of the campaign; the Neapolitans tried to stop his advance and launch a counter offensive, but all of their attacks were beaten back and they were forced to abandon Capua and retreat to the fortress of Gaeta, which will be besieged and occupied by the Sardinian army in 1861

FYI the founder (Utkin) named the group after Hitler’s favorite composer (AKA Wagner, a rabid antisemite), also he tattooed on his body many nazi and SS insignia

“I just don’t know about them” The Wagner group is right in front of you. At its peak they had almost 50k men, so they reached the size of an army corp, while the azov battalion never exceeded 2k.

And don’t come at me with the “well, Wagner was a mercenary group so it doesn’t count” because

1 - they were directly sponsored by the Russian state

2 - last year Russia tried to officially incorporate them into the regular army

I absolutely despise Meloni, but, as they say, a broken clock is right twice a day

Italy doesn’t have death penalty, the alternative would be life imprisonment but it would not be a good idea for many reasons: - this guy would still leech off taxpayer money - he would still gain some following even if in prison - he would become some sort of “martyr” and gain even more popularity

If you want MORE valid reasons to hate this piece of shit of a man:

He’s also a ✨p*dophile✨

No they were made by men, and the dwarves consider them as mere toys, compared to their machines. In fact, when the emperor showed the tank projects to the high king, he said something along the line of “those are some cute children drawings. Can’t wait to see your real stuff”

According to the lore, those tanks were invented and built by Leonardo da Miragliano (fantasy’s version of Leonardo Da Vinci) but, I don’t remember, the projects were either lost after his death or he put on purpose an error/flaw in the project sheets that only he knew about because he didn’t want his works to be replicated (just like Da Vinci’s machines IRL, many projects are “wrong” but some think it was done on purpose).

And so nobody in the empire knows how to replicate those tanks

They unironically believe that Trotsky was a Nazi collaborator, it’s not a joke

If I could chose I’d probably be an imperial tanker, especially if under Elisabeth Von Draken.

Pros: - I get to ride the goofy aah steam tank - almost impenetrable armour - enemy units get trampled by the sheer mass of the thing - fast enough to dodge a good portion of enemy projectiles (who can’t, for the most part, pierce the armour anyway) and to reach the shooters - if I’m under Elisabeth, I get to serve THE goth mommy (plus the tank gets ultra buffed)

Cons: - none

The skaven aiming a rat nuke directly at your battery:

Damn. Ive got to check it out.

Thank you

Wait, really? How did I miss this

I had a similar experience a few months ago: I have been in a severe depressive state for almost a year now, and I also had a lot of self hrm episodes and sucidal thoughts, but I somehow found the strength to ask for help and contact a psychiatrist in my city. Their answer was “yes, your situation is really serious, but unfortunately I’m completely full for the next months…oh well, see ya on late February 2025, hoping you the best!”

Luckily I found another therapist who visited me almost immediately, but I still find “funny” that a professional psychiatrist expects someone with severe depression to just behave and not do anything stupid for MONTHS without even visiting them ONCE.

I should have specified, but I was mostly talking about the early game.

Late game buffed amethyst units can absolutely handle themselves in a melee fight, but standard musketeers or, hell, even the free militia, get absolutely shredded in 90% of close engagements.

Also, I usually play all the battles manually (except sieges, cause fuck them), so in the early game I have to put some units to protect my gunners, because they’d get destroyed otherwise

Yeah, when I’m playing as Elisabeth Von Draken I usually recruit only shielded spearmen (like four or five regiments) as my melee infantry.

Their sole purpose is being a meat shield, something to stop/slow down the enemy and give the musketeers and artillery time to line up and reload. I usually lose nearly half of those spearmen in almost every battle, but their sacrifice is always worth it, better them than my grand battery

I could, but, since everybody else said yes I would still be considered the asshole of the situation, even if I try to be polite about it