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by jscott991
Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:44 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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....
by jscott991
Tue Jan 05, 2021 11:34 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Tue Jan 05, 2021 5:30 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Manassas Disappeared?
Replies: 7
Views: 4214

Re: Manassas Disappeared?

OneSwellFoop wrote:So by inadvertently destroying Manassas, you're sayin' McClellan actually accomplished something on a march thru Virginia? :dada:


Ha.

In my games, actually, McClellan takes Richmond every time in 1862 (details in my other thread).
by jscott991
Sat Dec 26, 2020 2:17 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Manassas Disappeared?
Replies: 7
Views: 4214

Re: Manassas Disappeared?

I don't think it did happen on this turn. It probably was the one before when McClellan moved through Manassas.

I didn't notice until then.
by jscott991
Fri Dec 25, 2020 9:40 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Manassas Disappeared?
Replies: 7
Views: 4214

Re: Manassas Disappeared?

I don't think any battle occurred there. If there was one, it was just with whatever garrison starts in the town.
by jscott991
Fri Dec 25, 2020 4:44 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Manassas Disappeared?
Replies: 7
Views: 4214

Manassas Disappeared?

Anyone know how or why Manassas might have disappeared in this game?

I've reloaded a few times, so it's not something that corrected itself.

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by jscott991
Thu Dec 24, 2020 4:04 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Wed Dec 23, 2020 7:02 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:13 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

The "epic" battle that ended my game.

Is this typical? Does the AI usually fail to defend Richmond?

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by jscott991
Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:04 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Tue Dec 22, 2020 8:22 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Tue Dec 22, 2020 4:43 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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.

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by jscott991
Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:36 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Re: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

How do you promote someone?

Also, I don't think Keyes was promoted in my game. He's still a brigadier in June of 1862.
by jscott991
Tue Dec 22, 2020 3:16 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start
Replies: 33
Views: 9999

Some Questions Playing the Union - 1861 Start

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 10, 2020 9:35 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Commanders Needing to be Active to Make Divisions
Replies: 6
Views: 3878

Re: Commanders Needing to be Active to Make Divisions

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:05 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Commanders Needing to be Active to Make Divisions
Replies: 6
Views: 3878

Commanders Needing to be Active to Make Divisions

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 10, 2020 3:00 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: McClellan Event Never Fires
Replies: 12
Views: 4806

Re: McClellan Event Never Fires

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.
by jscott991
Sat Dec 05, 2020 4:57 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: McClellan Event Never Fires
Replies: 12
Views: 4806

Re: McClellan Event Never Fires

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 03, 2020 8:59 pm
Forum: CW2 Mods
Topic: Getting the McClellan Event to Fire
Replies: 2
Views: 2766

Re: Getting the McClellan to Fire

This is so infuriating.

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.

Ugh!!!!!!!!!
by jscott991
Thu Dec 03, 2020 7:44 pm
Forum: CW2 Mods
Topic: Getting the McClellan Event to Fire
Replies: 2
Views: 2766

Getting the McClellan Event to Fire

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 03, 2020 3:11 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: McClellan Event Never Fires
Replies: 12
Views: 4806

Re: McClellan Event Never Fires

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:23 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: McClellan Event Never Fires
Replies: 12
Views: 4806

Re: McClellan Event Never Fires

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'...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:07 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: McClellan Event Never Fires
Replies: 12
Views: 4806

McClellan Event Never Fires

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...
by jscott991
Thu Dec 03, 2020 4:02 am
Forum: CW2 Mods
Topic: How to Mod a General
Replies: 4
Views: 2703

Re: How to Mod a General

Yep. I got it. Thanks!

Now I need to figure out why the McClellan Takes Command event never fires.
by jscott991
Tue Dec 01, 2020 4:55 am
Forum: CW2 Mods
Topic: How to Mod a General
Replies: 4
Views: 2703

Re: How to Mod a General

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 ...
by jscott991
Tue Dec 01, 2020 1:58 am
Forum: CW2 Mods
Topic: How to Mod a General
Replies: 4
Views: 2703

How to Mod a General

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...
by jscott991
Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:21 am
Forum: Help improve PON
Topic: Any idea when the new patch will be ready?
Replies: 10
Views: 13676

Yes, any kind of estimate would be great.

I am just about to come back to this game after burning out on Kaiserreich.
by jscott991
Mon Sep 28, 2015 8:50 pm
Forum: Pride of Nations
Topic: 1.04 Beta Patch: Assassination of Franz Ferdinand
Replies: 3
Views: 3150

Thanks!

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