Just to emphasize this again. Here is a screenshot of my latest abandoned game. Look at all the random CSA armies of considerable size wasting away in southern PA and West Virginia (Jackson, Holmes, and GW Smith). And there isn't a single real military unit at Richmond. https://i.ibb.co/YRpSYGL/WVA....
Your posts are informative, but you talk about strategy game AI as though it's a Chimera that can never exist (perhaps, more accurately, a unicorn). But as I said earlier in the thread, has anyone ever played a WWII strategy game where the early part of the war, at least, doesn't at least superficia...
I've now played four games over the holiday through about mid-1862. In every single one, the AI will NOT defend Richmond. It is absolutely obsessed with West Virginia and the Shenandoah, but it will not stop me from advancing up the Peninsula and taking Richmond without a fight. And it rarely interp...
My pet theory is that the VP towns are drawing Athenia north. Specifically Winchester and HF. Oddly Fredericksburg and Manassas aren't considered strat towns, so the CSA does not mind abandoning them to make a play for WVa. I finally figured out modding enough that I created a campaign with VP in M...
I actually played this game (and all Civil War games really) exactly like McClellan. :) I kept a ton of troops in Washington until March of 1862, when I launched the Peninsula Campaign with three corps of three divisions each (ultimately three more divisions ended up down there for that battle above...
Athena doesn't have to be a genius to know to defend Richmond. I also don't get why it is obsessed with West Virginia, the Shenandoah, and western Maryland. So many CSA divisions just wasting away running around in those areas while I took Richmond with basically no losses. I've played all the big C...
Remember, this is a game, not a recreation. Have you read this: http://www.ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=331&t=43074 1. I form a "shield" of Divisions from St. Louis to Pittsburgh entrenched in the major cities along the rivers. This allows me to concentrate on the East. In your pic...
Just to bring home the CSA/no defending Richmond thing, what is going on here?
I don't understand what the Confederates are trying to accomplish with all of their forces so far from Richmond when I'm on top of it with three corps.
So despite saying I was going to give up on this game, I've kept chugging along. There is so much I don't like about it (AGEOD's interface is just so clunky compared to the Paradox games I've grown used to), but I just have this feeling that if I could get over it, it's the best Civil War game out t...
I'm confused by what you're recommending now that I'm home from work and could try it. If you turn on Veteran (the slider all the way to the right) it says that it shows all leaders as active, but that their actual activation roll won't happen until later. If they fail that roll, some orders will be...
I think I'm going to give up on playing CW2 and switch to Grigsby's old game, but I wanted to ask one question after my experiences. Commanders need to be active to form divisions, right? That means that to just start organizing your army, you need your leaders to get lucky and be active. And then i...
I might try to change that text and see what happens.
The truth is that even with McClellan commanding my Army of the Potomac, I can't get into this game. There's just something about it (and other AGEOD games, particularly Pride of Nations) that never clicks with me.
I can't get it to trigger either. There is an October 16 McClellan event that triggers every time, but it doesn't do anything. It doesn't even have anything listed in it for it to do. I also discovered even if you get the event to fire by totally changing the conditions, it doesn't add the Army of t...
Changing the fixed date to a min/max date construction and removing the evaluation event requirement, I got it to fire . . . and all it does is remove McClellan and McDowell. It doesn't add them back or create the Army of Potomac.
I simply can't get McClellan to take command in any of my games. The event does not fire. At first, I thought it was because sometimes when I moved McDowell to attack, and he lost, he would still end in Manassas. There is a 10/16/1861 McClellan event that does fire, but it doesn't seem to do anythin...
This event is weird. I don't know a lot about modding, but it has some strange lines in it that don't match any of the other USA events above and below. It has a specified dates under its conditions, plus a line about Manassas and then a bunch of other lines I don't understand. But the thing that is...
If the Union holds Manassas, McClellan isn't bumped up to command the Army of the Potomac. Maybe that's what it is? That must be it. Even when McDowell loses the battle, for some reason he always ends up holding Manassas for one turn. Is it if the Union holds Manassas at any point or in October? I'...
I'm trying to come back to this game since Grand Tactician doesn't seem anywhere near playable and I'm having some trouble getting starting. Specifically, the McClellan event in the July 1861 never happens. I've played through November 1861 in three games now and it has never occurred. I checked the...
I was just keeping it simple. McDowell is a 2-2-2 and McClellan is a 1-1-2 (Strategy, Offensive, Defensive). I just wanted to make sure McClellan is at least the equivalent of the worst historical general in the Union army. I found those files. But I thought you had to change him somewhere else too ...
I bought CW2 forever ago, but never played it (I kept playing CW1 and then moved on). Now I want to play it, but I need to change one thing first: McClellan's stats. This isn't as easy as it seems. There is some step that I am forgetting (that I figured out with CW1). Can someone explain the steps t...