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khbynum

Good point, 1stvermont , about a very early intervention perhaps preventing the war. I think it very unlikely, though. What could the European powers, in fact, have done to affect the war? As pgr stated, both England and France had huge commitments elsewhere. Their foreign policy goal was not to fig...

khbynum

Cacrict, I think you've lost your way on the Internet. I hope you sing better than you surf.

khbynum

All that said, I'm not sure what I think should be happening. My gut feeling is that we are being too sensitive, but also that we are too slow to speak out when we see racism and white supremacy in others. As usual, a thoughtful and literate post, tripax . Please excuse me for only quoting the last...

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We both know it was a lot more complicated than that. Tariffs were stifling the Southern economy. Control of Congress was slipping away and with it the ability to steer the nation the way some Southerners wanted. Lincoln set about a war to restore the Union by force, not to free blacks from slavery....

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Lee always believed that Davis was the best choice for the job, or at least said so. But then, he was raised in a culture of military subservience to civilian authority. I think my country lost a lot of things in the Civil War, but at least we didn't lose that. If the South had structured a governme...

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Hey, tripax, you're right. I was going to post a ringing endorsement of Stauffenberg's views, which would probably have been a waste of time.

Stauffenberg, I didn't know Lee and Grant ever met after the war. I'd like to hear more about that.

khbynum

Great news, LiarFox! I'll start a new game right away.

Are you new to the AGEod team? I haven't seen your name before. Welcome!

khbynum

I don't normally use paraphrases, especially in a forum with such learned members, but I can't find an exact source. So... Col. E. Porter Alexander to Gen. Longstreet, regarding his disposition of artillery on Marye's Heights at Fredericksburg: "General, a chicken could not live on that field when I...

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Again, the possible use of repeating rifles in the CW is a classic What if...? The argumemt that troops lacked the command and control to use them is really absurd. Cavalry had these guns and most Union cavalry could barely ride their horses. That was your original question, before the thread derai...

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From Nosworthy, Brent. 2003. The Bloody Crucible of Courage . In late 1862, Springfield rifle muskets cost $18.50 in quantity (wish I could get one for that). Sharps, Colt and other breechloading rifles ran $42.50 - $45. The Union could have afforded it, but the Confederacy had neither the means to ...

khbynum

I assure you, Sir, I was born BC. I've also assembled a few plastic panzers in my life. Hope you get it sorted.

khbynum

What Pocus has provided is not a patch, but a replacement for the CW2.exe file. Uncompress the downloaded file on your desktop with WinZip, 7-Zip or whatever utility you prefer. You get a file called CW2.exe. Don't click on it. Go to your AGEod CW2 directory (in my case C:/Games/Civil War 2). In tha...

khbynum

Come on, Sir_Bear, everyone on the forum respects your knowledge of the game and values your advice. But sometimes, you act like a bear with a toothache. There's no need to insult people because they write poorly; you often misspell words, use constructions that are less than clear or submit posts t...

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.rar is a file compression format similar in concept to .zip, but using a different, more efficient algorithm. Most compression/decompression utilities will open .rar files and Windows will automatically use the utility if you have it installed. Just tell it to associate compressed files with the ut...

khbynum

Outstanding, Sir Pocus. Thank you!

khbynum

Gray Fox keeps posting about armies being trapped. That's not what anyone is objecting to. Of course, if your retreat is cut off you have to attack to escape. If you lose a battle and have a valid retreat route, it's absurd for the game to make you continue to attack by changing your posture to off...

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All right then. I attack Richmond and lose. But I get an automatic 5% MC, so I dig in and Richmond is now under siege. Like what happened at Petersburg in June, 1864? I think AndrewKurtz has the right of it. Force offensive posture upon first entering a region with less than 5% military control, bu...

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It surprises me, too. I was waiting for the 1.05 patch to start a new campaign, thinking this game-breaking bug had been squashed. Oh well, "Brother against Brother" is out so I'll play that for a while.

khbynum

Yes, if we ignore all of military history and focus exclusivley on the four years of the CW, then we can ignore any other reality. Unless it happened within our shores and between April 1861 and April 1865, it just wasn't possible. I assume this part of your post was aimed at me. The game is suppos...

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The problem is, nothing like the described mechanic actually happened during the war. No army ever beat itself to death with repeated attacks when it had an open path of retreat. The only time a field army surrendered by necessity (leaving aside sieges, where the commander let himself be trapped) wa...

khbynum

Thank you, Sir. This forum has the most erudite membership of any I've frequented. I try to say just what I mean. Lincoln was a politician, and a consummate one. I'll leave it at that.

khbynum

"You take it on faith, you take it to the heart.
The waiting is the hardest part."

Just kidding, we know it will be here and be great.

"The Waiting", Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Hard Promises, 1981

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I know how you feel, Straight Arrow . I've let myself get involved in p*ssing contests on this forum before and told myself I would never do it again, especially when the discussion descends to denigrating other people's countries and religions (a sure way to guarantee they won't listen to anything ...

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In the lithograph above, that looks like Meade standing next to Grant, but he wasn't actually present at the surrender, was he? Captain_Orso , believe it or not, most of us down here do not have a rectangular Confederate battle flag on the front bumper of our pickup trucks. Actually, I was going to ...

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It is measure of our worth, as a people and a nation, that we put the most horrific war of the 19th century behind us and built something better. Others who have suffered through such wars are not so fortunate and their hatreds still run deep. I have argued in other threads that the war should never...

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Turing test, eh? As far as I am concerned you're a troll and that's how I will respond to you in the future.

khbynum

Do not feed the troll.

khbynum

Yes, that's the way Gray Fox plays and more power to him. It would never occur to me to put CSA merchant ships in the shipping box because I know it defeats the blockade mechanics. If you're into PBEM, agree on a house rule. I'll have to rely on self-control and hope the next patch fixes the problem.

khbynum

When Gray Fox first advocated this idea of an artillery division, which if I understand his last post he got from pgr , I scoffed. Upon reflection, I realized it was a valid way of simulating the artillery concentrations that the Union adopted by mid-war. How many should be allowed? Well, that's up ...

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At times, neither can I. By all accounts I've read, Forrest didn't drink, though I seem to remember a reference to him taking a nip when a surgeon had to dig a pistol ball out of his back.

As to that car, no true Southern man would ever give a car that name.

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