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Skibear

The game released in 3 months ago so I very much doubt anybody has completed a pbem for the full campaign yet unless they all locked themselves in a room to grind through relentlessly :) We have reached may 1806 or thereabouts in both games I'm in, so pretty much 18 months of turns will take 3 month...

Skibear

Intresting game! Just a little clarification: the 150k british men and 5000 guns that is shown on the first screen includes all the sailors and guns in the fleet at port in the region, that didn't fight in the battle. On the battle report everyhing a nation has on a region in accounted for whereas ...

Skibear

To further clarify there are still at least 25 mobile units in Britain and Ireland in addition to the static brigades and batteries. Gibraltar received a boost to discourage Spain (now at peace). The India's sent home a couple of brigades following the fall of Jaipur, and the Americas are unchanged....

Skibear

thanks for the explanations Skibear. I still think Britain should have a really really hard time mustering troops to fight on the continent, it should take time and really the Brits should hardly be able to send 30 000 men on the continent in the first couple of years : in the first years the Brits...

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I am more amazed by the 5371 cannon of the British force. The allies had ~1500 cannon at Liepzig, which if not the most at any one battle has to be close. Did the British take all the cannon off the Royal Navy ships? That does seem high doesn't it? But no nothing landed off ships. Moore's army has ...

Skibear

Here are some wider numbers regarding the situation so far: GB has lost 95k in her adventures in India, Cape town and now on the Continent. We have taken 54k Dutch prisoners, 83k Indian prisoners and 81k French prisoners. Overall French losses against GB, Austria and Prussia seem to be 335k all told...

Skibear

As the British commander I can explain a little bit about the context here. 1805 saw the previous French emperor (who dropped, and Ironclad kindly picked up the pbem position) suffer serious setback in South Germany being outfought and outmaneuvered by Austria with Prussia's help. Britain answered t...

Skibear

I tried one assault once there were several breaches but that failed, although it did serious damage to the defenders. They eventually surrendered but it took quite a long while.

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Skibear

How do you figure out they grumble? My advice is to ignore them and Promote Lannes any way. Better stats and has gifted commander 2 so should provide stats bonuses to his lower rated corp commanders. Promote the best and damm the NM and VP. :) Its a 7 player PBEM so I'm quite keen not to waste hard...

Skibear

I can email you one yes or where should i send the file? 10mb file so won't let me attach here. This particular turn the triangle is Murat (1) to Soult (1) to Moncey (4) and back to Soult.

Skibear

Seems to that seniority and promotion is a bit bugged. For example in a current game Murat has seniority of 1, but try to give him an army to command and the tip says soult will get pissed for being passed over. So we hunt down Soult and he has seniority 1 too. So lets give him the army, I'm not fus...

Skibear

Makes sense, cheers

Skibear

Disbanding units cost VPs, but do these units add conscripts back into the pool?

Skibear

I very much like the look of where that is going

Skibear

It seems we must disagree! I'm unconvinced that because it wasn't taken before it couldn't be taken then with more resources directed at its destruction. But I am not a soldier or an engineer. Nonetheless, whoever is right or not, it would be interesting to hear the developers' opinions on this. I'...

Skibear

Gibraltar held out under siege from France and Spain for 3 years 7 months without falling in the 1780s. It should be virtually impossible to assault, and given that its not actually a walled city as per the model but essentially an unbreachable (at least in the sense of wall breaches making the stru...

Skibear

Those horseless tin wagons are a fad, they'll never catch on

Skibear

Ok, re. the cards I can see on reflection that playing a card might at least restrict the size of shipping found to smaller forces. This is something missing in a big way at the moment that if you are the Union and want to find boats for 100k men in an instant they are there. This is also the type o...

Skibear

Its nice thinking but I can see why went with current system instead as really it does the same thing without having to play the card, except without the delay of the transports next turn. Unless the turn cycle is reduced there will not be a satisfactory solution to the time dimension for a lot of t...

Skibear

I did not saw anything about needing the highest ranking naval officer, but I did say that some sort of naval officer not necessarily an in game character implied by using specifically chartered transport units would improve co-operation and make operations run more smoothly. Without such co-operati...

Skibear

I strongly believe that cohesion should not be touched at all. Transports were nearly--if not completely-- all civilian. Every historic example of troops being transported along or over a major river demonstrate that there was no issue with this. The point here is there should be a difference betwe...

Skibear

Re. Battle of Chickasaw Bayou. That was Sherman being transported by a fleet of gunboats and troop transports. Thats an entirely different proposition to utilising riverine transport points for combat or offensive movement in enemy territory. As Capt Orso states generally folks made sure there wasn'...

Skibear

Seems like this has not been mentioned for a while but remains for me the single most unsatisfactory feature of the game. Without a house rule it is too easy for a unit to rustle up an armada of magic canoes and transport potentially thousands of troops, horses and guns over sea or river. Its a bit ...

Skibear

There are already modifiers for terrain that any defender applies to their benefit. Entrenchments are different, and were not universally dug. Grant was at west point but failed utterly to dig trenches, select suitable ground or even post sentries at Shiloh. Yet in the game they would be automatic. ...

Skibear

Absolutely. Although as the CSA it is possible, and desirable to invest a little to defend Tuscon. All points valid though. Plus the other reason its possible for the USA to hunker down in the east with a network chain of heavily entrenched corps that despite being often inactive due to rubbish comm...

Skibear

Out of interest, actually I believe the origins of the symbols relates to the traditional crossed X webbing straps for infantry & a single webbing strap for cavalry, related to the uniform but for the carrying the sabre as you suggest

Skibear

To briefly fill in the union perspective on Seraphims excellent summary, St Louis caused quite a panic in Washington for sure. Unfortunately while Grant did take Donelson as per plan, and the fleet followed up, the river promptly froze Foote into the harbour and we couldn't respond. However there wa...

Skibear

Well played Ace, solid victory for sure. Enjoy the next round, and bad luck Jim, tough early blows to recover from for sure.

Skibear

Well played Ace, enjoy the next round, and bad luck Jim, tough early blows to recover from for sure.

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Fixing seniority & promotion

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