Captain_Orso wrote:The 1.16rc10a public beta is already out since Friday: AACW {public beta} patch 1.16 Release Candidate 10a - January 13, 2012
There are no changes to current campaigns or scenarios being worked on other than to fix events and discrepancies.
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In general I do not know of any special goals or awards to gaining military control over any regions other than strategic and objective cities and those appointed through events; Wheeling and Pittsburgh are both stratigic. If you take a strategic or objective city you will get a message in the log stating that your citizens are very pleased with this and you will get some MN awarded--although this is not always stated in the log--and 1 VP per turn that you hold them; more if there is an event that states this.
I've end-run Jackson into Harrisburg PA, taking and holding it for several turns before my supply started to wain and I don't think I got any NM for this at all. It just disrupted the Union's operations forcing them to gather a force together to try to throw me out again, which never happened because I skedaddled before they arrived. I'm not sure of what in-game significance Harrisburg has, but while displaying 'Strategic Towns'--press '3' while displaying the map--it's region is colored, but it's neither strategic nor an objective. It is the capital of PA in Real-Life™.
I think that strategically in the game, the importance of West Virginia for the South is to be able to threaten Wheeling and Pittsburgh. As the Union I almost always put a depot in Pendleton WV with a division and another division in Grafton to counter this. In Real-Life™ I don't know that WV played all that big of a role in the war . Giving WV official statehood in '63 I think had more political value than anything else, sort of like the Union patting itself on the shoulder for finding a friend and showing that the Union was still working; but I'm no historian.
lodilefty wrote:The shape of WV is summed up in one word: RailRoad
The Baltimore & Ohio line runs through Harpers Ferry and northern WV. Owners were big suppporters of Lincoln. Create a new state with a funny shape as reward! [There was also something about the "finger" running north toward Pittsburg, can't recall what ]
lodilefty wrote:The shape of WV is summed up in one word: RailRoad
The Baltimore & Ohio line runs through Harpers Ferry and northern WV. Owners were big suppporters of Lincoln. Create a new state with a funny shape as reward! [There was also something about the "finger" running north toward Pittsburg, can't recall what ]
Captain_Orso wrote:
"The '"finger"' running north toward Pittsburgh"? Then there's the shotgun in the Shenandoah and what's that thingy from Maryland doing poking its way between Virginia and Pennsylvania? It's no wonder it came to war with all this poking in each others tender spots
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