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Childress

Now if you have counter-arguments... Also you can mod the values if you are not satisfied, in the meantime. Well, if stragglers are included in the casualty totals, these are much more more plausible. Problem is they weren't back then, AFAIK, only dead and wounded. So the inflated results in NAC, t...

Childress

O/T, but playing the 1815 scenario it seems impossible to replicate le deroulement of the actual campaign. The French side really can't 'steal a march' and prevent Blucher and Wellington from concentrating. More often than not, Napoleon ends up facing an Allied force of 200K. Or am I missing somethi...

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Yes, Pocus, this is the most recent update. Battle results are more plausible than 1.0, agreed, but still too bloody, IMO. It's a bit of an immersion killer. Are Missing included in the totals? I do appreciate the programming challenges involved in getting it right, though. There are a lot of algori...

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Haven't, as I posted in the other thread, picked this game up in months but I've been fooling around with it lately. Playing the 1815 scenario I'm seeing battles with amazing casualty reports- sometimes over 80k. There was a single battle in the campaign that approached these numbers- Waterloo. But ...

Childress

Bought this impressive game several months ago but have never gotten into it. I did a lot PBEMing in Combat Mission but it seems that the process was a bit clunky in the AEGEOD series; multiple files, no playback for one side, etc. I remember reading they were were working in some new utility that w...

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A slight augmentation of the hide value of your stack, if you have enough cav, can be evaluated, we will discuss that with the team. Thanks for the input. De rien! I remember reading about this Napoleonic technique in some book ages ago. The question is whether this ability should be extended to no...

Childress

Napoleon, IIRC, innovated the concept of sending out vast formations of mounted troops cross country at the outset of a campaign to blind enemy intel and disguise the centre of gravity of his main thrust. I was wondering if this kind of counter-intelligence technique is present and usable in the gam...

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In waiting other solutions, like Combat Mission, the must, a third person can be the host, no ? No, just two players. I remember competing in very competitive tournaments of 32-64 participants. The only downside was the extra email per turn, which in AACW should be less onerous since each turn = 15...

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Cheating is impossible in CM and it uses the same WEGO format. It's been a couple of years since I played it but do remember there was a proposal for an 'honour system' that eliminated one of the exchanges. It may be worth investigating since any good PBEM game should have rock solid security. (Not ...

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Yes, indeed, an important question. Battlefront, with their Combat Missions series, solved this but it entailed, IIRC, three email exchanges for every 2 turns.

Childress

Stonewall Jackson died as the result of friendly fire, a freakish accident. It seems logical, given average probability factors, that he should be present right though to the end of the game.

Childress

Interesting read: The Great Raid of 1863
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan's_Raid

Childress

No offense Childress, but I think it's not nearly as complex as you make it out to be. I think a 4 is about right. I think this game has as good a balance of management and abstraction as you'll find in any ACW game. If you think this one is complex don't even go anywhere near FoF, the other curren...

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WAW maybe be about a 2 out of 10 for complexity I think. Was too simple for me actually. I would peg AACW maybe at 4. War in the Pacific is a 10 for reference. Lol, what are you smoking, JHD? If WiTP scores 10 on the scale AACW merits at least a 7 or 8. The complex command system, the reinforcement...

Childress

I can't imagine this game, or a least one of the full campaigns, being played MP by any fewer than 4-6 participants. It's too damned huge in scope.

One also gathers that, though playable, it's not fully ready for satisfying PBEMs. For one thing, it lacks a turn replay function for the 2nd player.

Childress

Stonewall wrote:If you forsee an enemy unit retreating into one if its cities within a turn, don't give your own units orders to "intercept" the enemy unit.

How can this be always 'forseen'? Many regions have cities. This seems to be a *minor* exploit calling for the attention of the developers.

Childress

(Way O/T)

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!
Adm. Farragut, before Mobile Bay.

What was referred as torpedoes in the Civil War were actually naval mines. So, Pocus, are these present in the game?

Childress

denisonh wrote:In an ongoing PBEM, my opponent killed McClellan on the first turn and didn't know until I informed him.

One more reason, it seems to me, why the PBEM configuration needs some more refinement, notably turn replay for the non-hosting side. (I realize some enhancements are in the works)

Childress

Soldiers aren't robots, who just keep attacking until wiped out to the last man. They break and run long before reaching the 100% casualty mark. A bit OT: notice that a force carelessly left out of supply will eventually dissolve to the last man. But a real army, unless besieged or surrounded a la ...

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Maybe real commanders wouldn't order their troops to attack highly entrenched artillery on an open field which are under command of an excellent general? :siffle: Or, if they did, would have called it off before reaching the 20k level. And the figure of 689 for Jackson's force is hardly credible si...

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*The point being, IMO, that AACW battles in their decisiveness tend toward the Napoleonic campaigns of maneuver in character. *The POW thing is a a sticky issue since there were two regimes in force during the Civil War; an early parole system followed by the prison camp system. I think this element...

Childress

Here's a web site with the relevant stats: http://americancivilwar.com/cwstats.html One remarks that 1- Civil War battles were remarkably bloody. 2- Casualties figures tended to run relatively even on both sides despite often huge force discrepancies. 3- When there were lop-sided outcomes, as in Gra...

Childress

Terrific and deep, if somewhat overwhelming, game, AGEOD. But, tinkering around, I've noticed that some battles yield curious results in which one force inflicts 2x, 3x, 10x or even more casualties than the other side. Were these crushing defeats really typical in the Civil War during a period when ...

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Casualties, pt deux

Is it PBEM ready?

Napoleonic cavalry screens

Assymetrical casualties