On Map, Off Map, what is the consensus please?

[K K Rossokolski]

And, Trains, do those work in this game? Any observations about them. Were they part of the original game or have they been added.
I'm playing a scenario with troops cars, railroad protection cars, and armed cars. Along with a few cars that are set up with artillery.

I have brought up troops to the front and am considering bringing all the armed rail cars back to the front where the enemy is breaking through my lines.

They were not in the original EFII as I remember, although the Map Editor has always had railway tracks available. A lot of the org lists now include trains of various types. A railway cutting can be done, but it takes three hexes across...750m.