Well this didn't last long... - Shortly after my post and i think right at the start of 1862 my war supply production shot up like a rocket. I suppose it did help that one turn in late 1861 I pushed 2 states to the highest industrialization level and 2 others into mid level. I now easily saee 5-10 i...
First off, this is my first game playing the full campaign (I couldn't resist) so I've made plenty of mistakes and yet I still have some questions. I'm about 95 turns left. I've fully secured my side of the MDL W-SW of Washington and have it stonewalled with 3 powerful corps. I'm about to take Nashv...
I learn something new every day. My only problem is that I have tried to get any and every 1-star general in some of my stacks to create a division but many won't do it. They need to be in a stack with a corp leader most of the time to do so. Otherwise there is some penalty cost to enable them to bu...
How about a hierarchy screen that looks like a family tree? One that shows the army leader, the corp leaders under him, their divisions and such. Players can click on a [+] or [-] to expand and subtract parts of the view that can go down to individual elements. It gives a player a visual and easy to...
I think I've got it now. The reinforcements quite literally just sub straight into damaged units of the specific type after losses, as unrealistic as it is for nationally ordered troops to appear exactly where needed.
I got this game as a random gift from a close friend a couple of weeks ago. In my teen years I was a big Avalon Hill Gettysburg boardgame fan and even to a bigger extent Lee Vs. Hill which was even more realistic. Supply lines and depots, unit activity levels, fortification building, attrition, etc....