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khbynum

You lost me with this post, especially the part about Clorox. You seem to be arguing that the "friction" produced by the game rules is appropriate, but that as a player you have the right to negate it if the code allows. No problem, play the game the way you want. It's a computer game; you can't che...

khbynum

I meant no criticism of anyone's play style. I'm a history buff at heart, not a gamer. I value the game as a simulation, related strictly to my interest in Civil War history. So, when I say gamey, I mean something that has no relationship to historical practice. I wouldn't do it against Athena and s...

khbynum

Yes, this "tactic" has always seemed very gamey to me. You can't do it with a division commander because (as I understand it) you get a temporary drop in his stats every time you appoint a new one, so why can you do it with a corps commander? I think the same rule should apply.

khbynum

I just finished Sibley's campaign as CSA and lost on points, despite retaining all my original locations, occupying everything north to Santa Fe, winning every battle, destroying Canby's army and inflicting 2:1 casualties. So, I think that one can't be won. I'm now trying it as the USA.

khbynum

Buchanan resigned his US naval commission on the assumption that Maryland, where he had close ties with slave-holding relatives, would secede. When it didn't he tried to retract his resignation, but Secretary of the Navy Gideon Welles would have none of it and struck his name from the list of naval ...

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Greetings, Ol' Choctaw. I hope your health problems have resolved for the best. I'm not sure it's a good idea to reopen this old thread, but I'm glad to see you back.

khbynum

Sir, your memory is as correct as mine is faulty. The Federals did in fact set off two mines at Vicksburg, each with about half the powder of the Petersburg mine. The Confederates also set off some small charges in countermines. They used mostly black laborers for these and the second Union mine did...

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Rarely, people are still injured or killed in the USA by unexploded Civil War ordnance (link). It's nothing like the situation in Germany or France, though, or many other countries around the world.

khbynum

Yes, the one at Petersburg was the famous Battle of the Crater. It might have worked if Burnside (actually, Meade) hadn't given in to political pressure and substituted worn-out white units for the fresh Black units that had trained specifically for the mission. But, who knows? The one at Vicksburg ...

khbynum

I don't think it is a illogical restriction, but agree it could be better documented. The only two mines used in the Civil War were against elaborate field fortifications around cities, not against forts (though I admit the distinction is blurry). The mine at Vickburg was completed too late to use b...

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8< Okay, sorry, enough unsinn from me. Captain_Orso , my comment was written late at night and without a smilie to indicate humor, not criticism. Please believe I hold you in high esteem. It's just that, for a couple of posts you reminded me of a comment by one of my favorite authors, Stephen King ...

khbynum

Well, the forum was dying anyhow. Captain_Orso's post just put it out of it's misery.

khbynum

Sadly, not many, and most of them self-serving partisan efforts to justify their Civil War record or weigh in on the "Lost Cause" post-war nostalgia. Longstreet, Forrest and Gordon come to mind, but I doubt those can be accessed outside of research libraries. Henry Kyd Douglas ("I Rode with Stonewal...

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Well, where to start? Everyone, on both sides, felt at that point they were outnumbered and about to be overrun. If Fremont felt put upon, imagine Price, who couldn't even find muskets for his militiamen. I think the South had a chance at a coup early in the war in the Trans-Mississippi, but only on...

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After two bloody days of inconclusive fighting in the Wilderness (5-6 May 1864), in which Lee held Grant to a stalemate despite being outnumbered 2:1, everyone from Private to Major General wondered what Grant would do next. In the past (McClellan, Pope, Burnside, Hooker) the Union army had always r...

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Strategy is overrated. Execution is underrated. The overweight smoker knows they should quit smoking and go on a diet, but most can't do it. Same thing here, most generals know they need to get there first with the most men but they can't cut through all the crap to actually do it. Strategy may be ...

khbynum

Thank you, gentlemen, for not excoriating me. Considering some of my posts on this forum, I deserve it. The strategic theorist whose ideas most impressed me was B. H. Liddell Hart and his "indirect approach". Like so many theorists in every field who had One Big Idea, he tried to shoehorn the entire...

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I just can't ignore threads like this, though I know I should. So, I'll risk p*ssing people off because I'm going to throw out generalizations ( Granitestater ) and denigrate the greats ( Gray Fox ). I've read Jomini, von Clausewitz and Sun Tzu. To me it all sounded like a turgid (the first two) or ...

khbynum

Since the thread has gone off in several directions, I'll go with the flow. Such a rule would have the effect of forcing the player to try to duplicate the way the Civil War actually happened. I am very much against that approach and think the game should simulate the conditions under which the war ...

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Don't say that, it is a lot of fun for me to read and take part in these conversations. OK, tripax , you asked for it. In anything but a strictly tactical fight, or the martial arts, I think the "keep one point" doctrine is nonsense. I don't care what Clausewitz wrote; Albert Einstein said, “...

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I feel I'm being chastised for a sin I didn't commit. I was not taking an historical position for which I felt I had to provide proof, but rather trying to start an historical discussion. It worked, even if it has been sidetracked into discussions of two-front strategy and specific game strategy. I ...

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Gray Fox recently posted in the main forum: "An ancient axiom of war is not to fight on two fronts at the same time. That is why I hold in the center with a line of strongpoints along major rivers and attack in the east. If you attack down the Mississippi this would require a lot of men and supplie...

khbynum

An ancient axiom of war is not to fight on two fronts at the same time. That is why I hold in the center with a line of strongpoints along major rivers and attack in the east. If you attack down the Mississippi this would require a lot of men and supplies that you should be using to take Richmond. ...

khbynum

Whoa, am I reading this right? The game allows you to move the capital to Atlanta? I ask because I lamented in another thread that it wasn't possible and no one corrected me. I thought the only possibility was Mobile (which makes no sense militarily).

khbynum

Thanks for the offer, but I bought it and gave it to someone else. So, if I want a new copy for myself I must buy it again. I don't rip off software, ever.

khbynum

Very Disappointed and Frustrated So am I. I've gone back to AACW. Unfortunately, I gave away my AACW disc. Fortunately, I could download it from Matrix for the price of dinner and a couple of beers. Also, lodilefty 's lovingly assembled 1.17a heritage patch is still available, so I once again have ...

khbynum

I've actually reverted to AACW. CW2 brought a much better main UI and admittedly better graphics, but other than that only the cards (trivial chrome, which distort game play), the expanded far West (interesting, but had absolutely no effect on the Civil War), changes in NM rules that emphasize game ...

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Clicking on the link gives a "File not found" message, but clicking on AACW under lodilefty's signature turns up the file. I've struggled to appreciate CW2 for a couple of months now and have decided to go back to AACW. Unfortunately, I gave away my disc. Fortunately, I can download it from Matrix f...

khbynum

Thanks for your reply. I certainly did not mean to exclude citizens of other countries and should have made that plain in the initial post.

So, if you were a recent immigrant to the USA, how would you have dealt with the situation?

khbynum

I'm going to take a chance on another hypothetical, if only to keep the subforum going. If you had been alive at the outbreak of the Civil War, in your own state, teens or early twenties (or any age), what would you have done? I would have been in South Carolina, probably a son of a gentleman farmer...

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