Bloody Road South - To get or not?

[Taillebois]

I see very little mention of the add-on in the forum.

Is it such an obvious purchase that everybody has it? Or is everyone here so hard core that they only play the full campaign?

[grimjaw]

I can't report on it. I only ever play the full campaign. The others aren't interesting to me.

[loki100]

I see very little mention of the add-on in the forum.

Is it such an obvious purchase that everybody has it? Or is everyone here so hard core that they only play the full campaign?

the advantage, I think, is to help learn the game.

Since some of the scenarios are shorter and smaller in scale its a lot less daunting to play and you can usually concentrate on stack organisation, movement and combat rather than building up armies and having to remember the Far West when dealing with a crisis in the East etc.

[minipol]

I bought it just to support Ageod and to ensure they have the means to keep producing great games.
Haven't played it yet, as I only play the grand campaign.

[John S. Mosby]

I bought it just to support Ageod and to ensure they have the means to keep producing great games.
Haven't played it yet, as I only play the grand campaign.

My thoughts exactly regarding support of Ageod. I purchased it.
I also agree Bloody Road South provides good training scenarios to sharpen your skills on a smaller scale.

[Durk]

So many players make the mistake of thinking only the longest grand campaign is worth playing, they are wrong. The 1862 start in Bloody Road South is the most historical game scenario of CW2. If you wish to play history and not a mere game, use the 1862 start. This start incidentally gets around some of the historical imbalance issues mentioned in other threads. The other campaigns are close to this same excellence, but this is worth the purchase for more than charity to the fine people at AEGOD, it offers three campaigns which are totally new challenges and two excellent battle scenarios. I love the 1863 and 1864 starts for really nice challenges. The only issue with Bloody Road South is that in these additional grand campaign games, units do not start fully entrenched.

[pgr]

Like many others, I mostly got it to support AGEod, however the extra campaigns are quite good.

At the moment, people tend to playe the full 61 campaign...but I think that is a bit of habit. I'm sure people who post in the PBEM forum looking for battles or these other campaigns would have no problem finding opponents.

[wsatterwhite]

The 1862 start in Bloody Road South is the most historical game scenario of CW2. If you wish to play history and not a mere game, use the 1862 start. This start incidentally gets around some of the historical imbalance issues mentioned in other threads.

As someone looking for a more historical feel to the game, would you mind going into a bit more detail as to what makes you say this (or if it has been discussed before elsewhere, please point me in that direction)?

[Orphan_kentuckian]

As someone looking for a more historical feel to the game, would you mind going into a bit more detail as to what makes you say this (or if it has been discussed before elsewhere, please point me in that direction)?

I can't speak for Durk, but I do agree with this scenario being the most historically accurate. In the 1861 start, an experienced CSA player can have 2 huge armies at this stage (1862), both east and west if he chooses to go that route(and if KY stays neutral).

In the 1862 scenarios, armies begin in their historical areas and are about as close to historical numbers as you can get. For example, ASJ out west regrouped in Corinth, Miss., with a little over 40k men after Grant took Forts Henry and Donaldson. In this start you can find them sitting in Corinth, Miss at those troop levels. Same goes with every other theater.

I find it very refreshing and more of a challenge to start in one of the later scenarios as the CSA.