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Cardinal Ape

Here you fetch me again. But did cotton play an important role in the war efforts of the rebel faction? Its my opinion that the CS tried to make cotton play an important role but failed to do so. For imposing an embargo on cotton, way too much made it out, especially to the North. Turns out that it...

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In all honesty, if you had made a statement about trade between the Union and Confederacy during the war, without presenting the evidence, I would not have believed it, and been appalled at the audacity. I knew that there were agents following, or traveling the military into captured Confederate te...

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My god, we created a monster. :mdr: Yup, this thread has turned into quite the monster, but for me its the tip of the ice-berg; I enlisted the help of a friend who is an amateur board game designer and we started making an economic based game about smuggling cotton out of the South. I have friends ...

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@Orso, Gifs of bouncing boobs, cat videos, and pictures of bears playing electric guitars, is there anything more American? I accept you are Beorn is the USA. Perhaps a full stand down is in order, let the historians conjecture over the Bay of Apes incident. Ya, checking the shipping boxes for ships...

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You can tell I've been playing too much Twilight Struggle this week. I blame the horrible weather. Anyhow... @principes romanes, Your comment about investing conscripts into the plantations brought the Twenty-Slave law to mind. I wonder if it could be modeled into the game... Like the draft options ...

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@BigDuke66, I think that if you, Orso, and I had our way we might spend half our turns managing fodder and cotton. :) You are right about the Union not being able to impact cotton, but the CS doesn't make much from it. Unless they made a ton more, sailing a force down to Texas might lose you more in...

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So what I am thinking is 1. The Export Cotton Event, should continue firing regardless of how much cotton has already been exported. Why? Because I assume that the South will simply never export all of its harvested cotton. 2. Exporting Cotton RGD over the Mexican Border should also not be dependen...

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Harvesting should not be something the player should be concerned with. Agreed. To clarify what I was thinking: The current event that awards six bales of cotton in November would be removed and replaced with separate events for each plantation. If the plantation is owned and unpillaged then you ge...

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If the highest seniority general is also in command of a division, he will only give the unit commander bonus, (3% per OFF/DEF) not stack leader bonus (5% per OFF/DEF). That's backwards, its the other way around. The highest seniority commander will lead the stack and provide stack commander bonuse...

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So, short of actually having 'cotton loads' to physically transport to the Mexican border, the only reasonable thing I can think of would be to restrict the Export Cotton RGD to the border towns on the Rio Grande close to the mouth, and find a way to give the South only one Export Cotton RGD at a t...

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Interesting replies all around. The Export Cotton RGD is all about the Mexican border, the card reads, 'We will organize exports of cotton to European states through the Mexican border.' Like others have said, it is a fairly simple and abstract system, it gets the job done, but I don't like it. My r...

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It should be an easy fix. There probably are some other RGD's that could use that fix too. I think I recall some previous complaints about not being able to stop the 'sneak in blockade runner' RGD. Forgive my ignorance here, but whats the deal with Matagorda being the sole region for the sale of CSA...

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I note that my two commanding officers with field victories to their name are Butler and Patterson. Noice. I'm sure it was all due to Butler's skill rather then Evans being deep into the bottle. Anyhow, I've always had a strange amusement for getting victories with horrible commanders. Good job. So...

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D'oh, you accidentally lost the level 8 entrenchment in Fort Monroe? That's not good... Well, if worst comes to worst then you won't have to worry about Butler demanding an army command... Perhaps you can turn the Fort into Alcatraz if it falls; trap those assaulters on that island for the rest of g...

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Yup, taking Matagorda won't stop the CSA from selling cotton. Been like that for as long as I can remember.

Cardinal Ape

Huh, uhmmm... that's quite the puzzler.

Looks like Athena is playing the ancient Greek/Discordian game of Sink.

Cardinal Ape

@Orso, Yup, you are correct; a general can't be both a stack and a unit commander at the same time. If a general is the stack commander and also has a division when a battle ensues, his division will not receive any division command bonuses. I have tested it several times, because the first time I r...

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Nah, the DLC does not add any new game play features, only scenarios. Yup, it is a drinkings mans game, the two worst attacks I've launched in PBEM games either came before my morning coffee, or after my after work beer. Oh, wait, you said thinking, that works too. :siffle: When asked, I always reco...

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Nah, this new fancy forum doesn't have tables.. It sucks.

Though, I think if they really wanted to they could inject some code for it.

Cardinal Ape

Ya, the inherited stats can't exceed the army commanders own stats. I believe the strategic rating is the only stat capable of being reduced through the chain of command. The offensive and defensive ratings will never go down. Giving Grant a corp under Lil'Mac will only negatively affect Grant's str...

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An interesting idea. I'm not sure exactly what you mean by "one turn reserve" though. Currently every unit, AFAIK, can always carry 2 turns worth of GS. As far as I know there is no unit that carries less than two turns of GS. However, there are a few that I can remember off hand that can...

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You are right to be skeptical of the counter-intelligence cards; their 25$ price tag is pretty high. I rarely use them. In general I find fighting for loyalty to not be worth the cost. Or rather, I don't like spending resources on loyalty. I try to save every dollar for recruitment. Usually, I just ...

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You asked how other players use their cash options. As the Union I always use them as soon as they are available and I still find myself wanting more cash (who doesn't). I tend to buy a lot of artillery and use the higher end choices of recruiting options. I also tend to invest in my railroad almost...

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It seems though that in a PBEM, most of the distant blockades do not work properly ( http://www.ageod-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=331&t=50889&p=388918#p388918 ). While that is true, you should be able to work around it so that it does not adversely affect your game. The host should run a dumm...

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Orso, you do make a good argument for the use of fodder. I'd play with it. Though, getting a good fodder system into the game may be a bit of dream, sadly. Its like an awesome piece of furniture that won't fit through the doorway of your house. I'm curious about what you think should be the conseque...

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Artillery having a greater impact with the traffic penalty is good and all, but I can't help but wonder if maybe artillery has too high of a base move speed to begin with? All but the biggest guns technically move at the same speed as infantry. IIRC, a stacks movement speed gets averaged out, so a c...

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It's Blockade; Block-Aid is the benefits concert 'Bobby' Lee-Geldorf organized for the relief of Southern cities suffering under the lack of imported Scotch and French Brandy. They were however swimming in Bourbon and Rum ;) . Damnit, Orso. You broke my association with the Civil War blockade, now ...

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I'd recommend turning your naval boxes handling option to 'manual'. At 'fully automated' their effectiveness is reduced by 75%.

Just check your blockade flotillas supply levels every few months, send a pair of transports out to resupply them as needed.

A Block-Aid concert.. that's gold.

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1.) Somewhere deep in this forum is a thread that contains good data from testing.. I couldn't find it.. Anyhow, IIRC the average number of hits replaced per chit is much higher than 10. For infantry its around 40, I believe. But, as you noted, DICE! :leprechau Sometimes you get the blessing of RNGe...

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Good one, Orso.

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