Originally Posted by
Sox
While that may be true, it could just as easily be us guessing. Fact is, we know less than nothing about the so called Historical Battle Mode other than a brief mention on that ages old roadmap, and from the blurb about commanding battles as a General that is on the home page. But one thing that is becoming glaringly clear is exactly what you said, Skirmish mode is looking less and less Company/Regiment friendly. In the Company tool you can, in theory, recruit and field a hundred men in ONE comapny, that system is most certainly not going to work for game mode tailored for a hundred and fifty players per map.
Even here, in closed alpha, with a limited number of players, we are seeing the system break down. For example, if II Corps fields sixty men (which does happen sometimes) that leaves only fifteen slots for other CSA outfits, result.....disgruntled CSA players have to go Union. Saturday was a prime example, one CS Regiment went Union by choice, for a Saturday that's normal because the Union do not usually field seventy five players for the NA Saturday event. This Saturday, however, they had a lot more players on which led to a total reverse of what normally happens, and some Union players were having to go CS. Now Confederate players get auto balanced over to the US all the time, but it rarely happens to US players and on Saturday when it did happen well, they were not happy about it, so unhappy in fact that they were fixing bayonets and stabbing friendlies in the spawn. An awful lot of bad feeling among players is being generated by this system, to the point where some Companies are actually being blamed for being 'too big'.
We cannot see beyond Skirmish mode and that is because we have no idea that there actually is anything beyond Skirmish mode. I fully understand the need to keep quiet, as Devs, while a game is still being developed, I fully understand the damage that can be caused if something is mentioned as a possibility, if it then fails to materialize. Having said that, it would help us, as players, if someone could at least tell us that we are not wasting our time here because as Cheeto pointed out, it really does not look like the Company system & the Skirmish mode are going to make pleasant bedfellows.