I don't know what I'm doing in the game, but it crashed about 3 turns into the August-start grand campaign.

I attached the log file listed on the screen when the game crashed, but the save game file is too large to attach (about 8.3 Mb) unless I'm choosing the wrong savegame file.

What a poor response. The Civil War did not happen during any standard definition of the "Little Ice Age." The average weather hasn't changed much, if at all, since the Civil War. And because the climate averages go back to about 1880, the averages reflect the probability of what the "average" weath...

Having just had a CSA army stuck (and then unsupplied) in the muds of New Mexico from Feb to April, it occurs to me that the game designers don't have a clue about the actual probabilities of bad weather in the U.S. And what is sad is that long-term monthly data on average temperatures and rain are ...

The linked article is interesting, but the more interesting part of the campaign to me was the retreat of the CSA soldiers following their defeat. With Fort Craig blocking their line of retreat to El Paso, they had to leave the Rio Grande valley and travel through very remote and mountainous terrain...

The reason I raze level 1 structures as the CSA is to try and limit the Union options of advance (without building the resource-expensive forts to protect their supply lines) and to limit the places they can put their forces in the Winter without attrition effects. The ultimate goal is to make the U...

I believe these issues need to viewed from the CSA perspective in a PBEM game. In my opinion playing the CSA is a thankless job, and as Z74 mentions, currently without real objectives other than to block the Union. That is easier done early in the game than later. If the Union chooses to build very ...

My main complaint wasn't that the Union can delay invading the south without penalty (although that is a problem). As the CSA I conquered and held all of New Mexico, destroyed every enemy fort in Kansas and Oklahoma, had raiders running all around the north until they were wiped out, and built numer...

I recently completed a very competitive PBEM game with a strong Union commander that played very cautiously. By early summer 1863 his armies finally began to advance into the South. However, the game was over by late September 1863 even though the only objectives he had conquered were Nashville and ...

As the CSA, when I decide on the cotton embargo option, money is added to my treasury rather than subtracted from it. This is opposite of what the description says will happen. With the huge amount of spare money for the CSA in this patch, I can overwhelm the North with the demonstration option beca...