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Cromagnonman

Hood's invasion required speed and stealth that would have been compromised by shooting his way across the river. If the impediments to field artillery taking on ships are so great, why then are armies so capable when being bombarded by ships? I parked a large naval force to support my Norkfolk garr...

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A brig may be a vessel used in war, but it's no war-ship. For example (because Wikipedia is easy), the USS Niagara draws 9 feet of water, just a few more than the ironclad Carondelet's 6 feet, and barely half of the draft of true warships such as USS Hartford and Minnesota. A brig is at best a scout...

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Most sea-going vessels cannot, in game, enter rivers. Brigs and trabsports can, but they are not warships. In my experience (having not played for a few weeks), the Union navy's big ships are ahistorically limited in how far up rivers they can sail. The fall-line of the Mississippi is damn-near in M...

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Union generals worth saluting are relatively uncommon early in the war. The few good ones can make the others better by being the Army to their Corps. Thus, it behooves the Federal player to place so-so generals into an army command structure below a more competent commander. The rebels are more abl...

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Perhaps this betrays my Victoria & E:TW roots, but I really wish I had more RDCs to "waste" on development, entirely separate from my war needs...

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Mid-'62, south of Raleigh NC, I surrounded a rebel field corps containing fort batteries. Over the ensuing 6 weeks, I hit it repeatedly with a corps containing my best Eastern generals, its escape foiled by the slow-moving guns. At the end, the corps was wiped out and several artillery elements were...

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I played the various Indian cards when the Great Sioux Uprising event fired, and it was almost universally successful. Once the war was over, they stopped working again (but I did have a few very expensive Indian units in my army). I would posit that, although the RDCs say they work on both hostile ...

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Yeah - you could consider each battery to be double. But the numbers of men/guns/horses is really just for flavor. What matters more is how many hits an element has, and how many it can inflict.

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Curtis should be able to make 3-star, as he historically commanded an army. It's really too bad that you are forced to use a seniority system that causes you lose points when promoting past an unpromotable officer... You can always send Sumner into suddent death.

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Milroy's men may have had some repeaters, but they appear to have been a variety of makes; I have not been able to find evidence that even half of his soldiers were armed thus. Regardless, he was a poor commander leading green troops against much higher numbers of veterans who knew the ground better...

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You can assault without any breaches at all - it's just that the defender gets some bonuses.

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Whoa, I didn't realize you could still build forts. Though if it costs 4 arty units and no guns are in the fort when done, then it's a waste

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You can't build a fort...?

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Of what "federal list" do you speak?

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grimjaw wrote:True, but there's no good way I know of to represent that in the game.

No need to. Just don't worry about switching over from "volunteers" to "conscripts."

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Whatever, Casey's is obviously superior

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I accept that "conscripts" is a term for raw line infantry, even though over 85% of the Union's soldiers were volunteers. I like your solution of renaming them "volunteers," which hews more closely to history; I would simply call the militia units "militia," as in AACW. Given this fix, I'm not sure ...

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The genius of Lee was enhanced by several factors that largely boiled down to superior intelligence. Lee first had the advantage of fighting a strategic defensive on home ground. His men, officers, and himself were much more likely to "know the ground" than their enemy, including the sometimes criti...

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Lincoln did not seem to have major qualms about divisiveness. Especially in border states, efforts were made to sharply differentiate loyal from disloyal persons. My guess is that the call for 75,000 volunteers was in part intended to make the undecided slave states take sides, because the war for t...

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3 is tough I agree. I think the best way would be to research the regiments of each state and their swearing-in dates, then make each state's force pool expand at about that rate. This would probably be plenty flexible, as I have found it nearly impossible to build an army of historically-accurate s...

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The only way for Lee to stay in the US Army was for Virginia to stay in the USA, and that was impossible with Lincoln's call for volunteers. So a scenario with Lee on the Federal side requires Lincoln to not call for volunteers, but to put down the rebellion with whatever Regulars he can gather, plu...

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1. I love militia, and I hate them. Militia are by far the most cost-effective infantry, not only in resources but also time. As a Federal player I can and do build tons of them, brigade them, and train them to regulars with the several training generals. I use them almost exclusively to garrison al...

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minipol wrote:Interesting info, thanks. A lot of good info on this forum seems to come from animals: we have a fox, a bear and an ape

That's because "Ageod" is French for "Narnia"

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Usually I see my navies getting blown out of the water by field armies that deliver many dozens of hits.
Historically speaking, Fort Henry was reduced by naval gunfire, as were several forts in the Outer Banks (and those by wooden ships).

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You pay money (and either NM or VP, I don't recall) to move to foreign entry needle

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I think it moves Foreign Entry in your favor

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There is some arcane method for determining from the element description what sort of replacement chit it uses

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This strikes at the heart of the AGEOD command structure problem. Army commanders really did not command their soldiers in the same way as corps commanders, and it does not seem reasonable on the surface for Grant or Sherman or Meade or Lee to directly command divisions in addition to directing the ...

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I don't think a unit (eg a division) can entrench or move at a different speed than the stack it's in...

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Black powder makes for a dirty barrel, which makes muzzle-loading a rifle incredibly annoying. The only time I actually put lead through my Enfield it got fouled very quickly, such that I barely got 10 rounds through in 30 minutes. Just the fear of an accidental discharge makes one trepidatious abou...

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