Why not just have a standard foreign Intervention Scenario as part ofthe regular game secenarios? Start is in October 1862 and go from there. It should not be that difficult to do. Can't see that it wouldn't require more than a string or two of coding to turn on intervention and continue.

Great new patch! I hope the next patch will do something about the fort bombardment section. There is just no way that a Union fleet should be able to sail up and around a fort a couple of time and blow it away. Has anybody attemped an ambush by putting three ot four confederate coastal defense guns...

Thanks for the help. I shall now use specialists more agressviely to support units anticipating combat. For example, a doctor to accompmany a planned corps level attack or a marine for a corps level attack or quick movement over a river. As US Grant is supposed to have said -- this is an excellent t...

Grey Lensman,

Not complaining -- just observing -- still a great game.

By the way how are you doing in your efforts to defeat the BEMs from evil Boskone -- hope you succeed in making the world safer for players of AACW.

Barksdale Agree that all AIs are dumb (I find the AI's perchant of sending unsupported corps on death rides deep into enemy territory particularly stupid and nonesensical -- also the AI hang up on Harpers Ferry is amazing -- it is usually much better defended then Washington, DC) but I try play for ...

Seems to me that in a two player (or one player against the AI) it would have to England versus France. The English player would raise and command Coalitions (nations would come and go according to their fear of France and how bad they were beat in the last war.) English could subsidize partners (un...

I have been putting support units in Army HQs because I assumed that Engineers, Doctors, Balloonists, Signalers and Marines contributed their special talents to All UNITS (corps) commanded by the Army HQ, even if they are NOT stacked with the Army HQ, and not just the HQ itself. However, I think now...

IMO a Russia first strategy (four or five German armies in the east) coupled with no invasion of Belgium (which may very well keep the Brits out) has a good chance. A quick campaign to grab St Petersburg followed by a magnanimous peace (with the shaken but not ruined Russian Monarchy) that takes Pol...

Now that the opening number of CSA two-stars in the April 1861 full campaign has been "corrected," the best way to get two immediate CSA Corps commanders in the East are J. Johnson (as soon as Beauregard's Army HQ gets in reach) and exchange Polk, in the west, for one of the Richmond one-stars. This...

Wow -- I am impressed about the amount of immediate authoritative comment based on this topic. Now I can see what makes AGEOD gamers so different.

This should make a big difference in the 1861 play balance.

You guys put in a great effort in a short time.

usfkman

Playing with 1.11d and no mods. (Will upgrade to 1.12 and 12/04/08 mod shortly) Ought to have a combat option forbidding units from retreating into structures that will work 90% (?) of the time. There are way to many seiges, especialy ones where a small force gets lucky and puts a large force under ...

I thought that Army HQs (icluding their contents) would not fight when standing alone. However, they could aid other friendly units in the same stack, and could march to the guns to aid other units. Is this not so? Also the Confederacy had a law against the formation of Corps that was not repealed u...

When I try to transfer Union Generals from the east to the west they insist on trying to sneak through Confederate territory -- and naturally are often killed or wounded, This happens even if trace a path to the far to the North. Same with even more valuable Army HQs! What am I doing wrong? Thanks a...