Team AGEOD - first off, fantastic game! I have invested more hours than I would like to admit but you could say that I have "totally" poured myself in. My hope is you will continue to invest in the functionality with new releases and updates moving forward as you really have an all-star product! I was a big fan of Civil War Generals I & II as well as Sid Meier's Gettysburg and was completely unaware that this product was out here until I discovered Scourge of War which led me to this offering. I just completed the Civil War Eastern theater campaign and as by the name of my user name might suggest, I played as the CSA. A little recap to the un-realistic events; Hood took NYC with DH Hill and Stuart chugging towards Boston....
Questions:
- How do I entrench past level 3 or level 4? I never could figure this out. I would have a corps present in Fairfax and Manassas, but never saw the entrechment level rise past 3 or 4. I had 4 high range artillery present in the corps structure as well as 4 additional artillery as an independent stack in the region (as I understood artillery had to be present in the region in order to get the "cannon" icon). I could simply not figure this out...help please?
- How do I capture units? So in this last game I had Burnside sitting on the other side of the river for Savannah in the woods. I think because "auto-supply" was on it kept him from starving as I had the fort outside of Savannah as well as Savannah well occupied. Regardless, many times I have smashed units hard, just to have to simply chase them all over Virginia. If I hit them first with a strong division / corps and then after I make them run hit them the next turn with a CAV division (independent stack) will that basically put away with them....?
- Can we please have a feature in an upcoming release that enables the ability to have access to more generals? The East scenario would be that much more fun if you gave "wide range" access to more generals. If this could be a setting like the "increase force pool" option, I would be thrilled!
- Can we have the game go past 1867? Idea would be if I wanted to capture all of the map as the CSA, I would run out of time...is it possible to do this in a future release?
- The user manual....it is very "informative" and "exciting" but is quite vague. There is a ton of great knowledge that I have gained looking this forum over and over, that could simply be written into the "book". I'm surprised you guys don't charge a consulting fee Serious though, you do a great job at saying, "you can move your troops over there..." but don't exactly tell "how to do it". The entrenching is just one aspect....
- Can we please add ironclads to the force pool...? I had captured DC and Philly as well as NY, but even my Steam Boat Navy with the CSS Virginia was only coming in at 480 strength with the Union Navy showing up in the thousands (and that was with a lot of steam frigates). I know it is unrealistic, but simply fighting the war on a computer is unrealistic in the sense of if we were doing this back in '63 Simply providing more robust flexibility on your most excellent environment would be very cool!
- Also, Hood's Division is not in the Gettysburg scenario.....
Will post more as I think up more, but finally decided to stop reading and start contributing! Great game, like I said, great game....
Cheers,
Matt