Murtagks(USA) vs Naturamix(CSA) The end of Naturmix series of wins (I hope)

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Hello Civil War 2 Community,

me and Naturmix are fighting now ourer sixth game. I lost every Game, but this will now change!

Because Naturmix have really much fun to write his first AAr, i want also try this. This will be my first AAr and I'am not a native english speaker, pls have leniency for me.

This will be my view of our game, if you want to read Naturmix view, you can read his AAr below.
"Naturamix(CSA) vs Murtagks(USA) Also Late to the Afterparty"
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The first shot and the first battle, on the 12.04.1861. This day will the Union always remember the beginning of the war and for the soldiers, that fought bravery against the invaders and killed for every Union soldiers 13 CSA soldiers.

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I have the feeling this will be ourer longest game round. Thats why, i will build many blockade ships.

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I must say, I like the Sharpshooters, and they have an important role in my Army, I have in every commander division. One Sharpshooters for the ability.

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And now my strategy for the game. I have two main objective that I want to archive!
The first is Richmond, I want to take his Capital and this in the beginning of 1862, but I know that Naturmix have a big Army in the north, Johnston and Beauregard. And because of this I will navel invade Norfolk and the city north of Norfolk to attack Richmond.
The Second objective is, to conquer the cities with the iron works. I know that Naturmix built iron works in Tennessee and Georgia.
Rome, GA
Nashville, TN
Memphis, TN
I think that with a army Grant and Sherman can take the cities. And additional I will try to cut of the supply, of the army that Naturmix send, against Grant and Sherman with cavalry.

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The first victory for the union. For me this city Clarksburg is a small objektive.
First to ensure the safety for my railroads in the north and also to get a position to lunch raids against the enmy railroads in the south, that connect Virginia with the rest of the province of the CSA.

My second step is now to completely crush this small Division.

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It's now early Aug, and Naturmix is threatening now Washington, D.C. But also he give me a perfect opportunity to take Richmond.

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In the Early July the force of General Joseph E. Johnston cross over the river defeated R. Milroy and taken Fredericktown.
But this is a mistake, that I can use!

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Because now the forces from Naturmix are in the north and I think that no force is defending Fredericksburg.
With this opportunity I can perhaps take Richmond or threatening Richmond and also lift the threatening of Washington, D.C.

And Washington, D.C. is safe, I have enough forces to defend and attack simultaneously. But I have the big problem, that I don't have enough Generals, because of that most of my army have only one General.

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My plan failed, I was hoping that Fredericksburg is undefended! I don't think, that i try to cross over the river, he has entrenchment and river crossing bonus. That's why I must try somenthing else.

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Ok, I have now a new strategy. I will try breakthrough in the north, my first step is to attack Longstreet with Irvin McDowell. I know that Longstreet he far a more capable defense general, but I must try with more man to atack him!

The second step is, to assemble my army in the north of Joseph E. Johnston and then to attack him without the his river bonus have have!

I know that I have don't enough generals and also they are really bad, that's why I try to attack him with more mens and guns.

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A Victory in a defeat. Yes, I have lost more men and the battle against Longstreet. But I have now the control of the city and my strength is far about him now. I will attack him a second time.

Because now that I will try to attack him a second time I have only Butler to secure the city Alexandria .
That's why I send him more reinforcement and also my Fleet that will support him and stop Beauregard if he want to cross over the river to Washington, I hope they coming in time. I'am worried that this was a mistake from me and give me a hard time.

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Now this is perfect, only one area is under the control of the CSA that supply Joseph E. Johnston, if I can take it with George B. McClellan, I can possible inflict a heavy damage to Naturmix! I hope he doesn't know this and will go in my trap!

I send a small army from Washington to Montgomery south of Fredericktown, to ensure he will not cross over the river!

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The second offensive against Longstreet was a success, I defeated him and he is now retreating to Manesses.
Argggg! Naturmix knows me , he have retreated with Joseph E. Johnston!

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Now this will be my biggest plan! I will try to attack Longstreet with Irvin McDowell a third time! To take Manassas and cut of the supply from Beauregard! I have secured Washington with a army and with the flett, the north, west and south also with an army, I think when Beauregard try to attack any side I will defend it successfully!
Now everything depends on Irvin McDowell!
I think that Beauregard will take the city and not retreat, and Longstrett will be defended Manassas.

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1861, Late Sept.
Now let's watch the situation in the east.

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Finally Grant has spawn, but because Naturmix is really aggressive in Virginia, I don't have time to send a army over to Cairo, now I decided to get with Grant to Washington, to prepare a army with generals and units for him. After this I will attack the south of Cairo.

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In the far east, it seems a little bad for my the general. In the south I have a enemy army with a strength of 140 and the other enemy Price with a strength of 300. I hope I can destroy Benjamin McCulloch army with John C. Frémont, before he gets reinforcement.

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1861,Late Sept. - Day 15

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My plan failed. General Irvin McDowell was not successful to take Manassas and cut of the supply of Beauregard.
I will try to attack with general Joseph K. Mansfield, I hope he is successful.

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And Butler.... why did I expect anything from Butler? Entrenchment Bonus, river crossing bonus and he lost. Typical Butle.

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I see my plan to cut of the supply of Beauregard is destroyed. I will now retreat with my army and wait for Grant, he is my last hope.

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1861, Early, Nov

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Finally Grant is here with a really big army.

With this new army and with a good general, I have now two objective. The first one is to attack wtih Grant, Harper's Ferry and then go south and attack Joseph E. Johnston.

The second objective is to attack with Irvin McDowell again Longstress but this time I have much more strength!

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The east is now in a bad position, but after I destoryed Beauregard I have enough forces to reinforce the east.

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Yes, i need to quickly reinforce the east. I will now create 2 armies and send then to the east.

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This is really surprising. I never thought about this, that he will attack me. A really big mistake for Naturmix but a perfect opportunity for me, to cut of the supply of Beauregard.

Ok my strategy is, that I will attack on 3 areas, in the next 15 days.
My first attack will be in the north to attack Joseph E. Johnston with Grant, I give Grant Marines and I know he can do this.
My second attack will be on Manassas with the General Joseph K. Mansfield. I know that only the cavalry with the strength of 200 and also with a 35% penalty is in Manassas, I hope Beauregard will not withdrawn his army to Manassas.
The thrid atack is on Longstreet with Irvin McDowell.

When everyone is successfully, I have cut of the supply of Beauregard . Unfortunately he has taken alexandria, for now!

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Joseph E. Johnston got away, at least I destroyed a little stack of cavalry and cavalry artillery, thank you Naturmix for this, because of this I can promote Grant! The next Step is to attack Beauregard with Grant.

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Yes, Naturmix don’t make it easy for me, to encircle Beauregard. However, like I predicted Naturmix withdrawn Beauregard from Alexandria to Manassas. It was a good decision to send Irvin Mcdowell, and not Joseph K. Mansfield. The casualties for this are high.

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This is good, the Rebels lost more men then me. This will really hurts Naturmix, we know both, that the union has more industry, men, guns and more of everything!

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I build many monitor, to secure the river in the land, but this was also a bad decision of me, because Naturmix told me that the City-class ironclad are built in Cairo, and now I need to move the monitor to Cairo. Dammit. As a excuses, this is now the second time I play the union.

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The first great victory for Grant!

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I lost Saint-Louis, for now! I have a many armies in the east that I need to organize, after this I will send to the west.

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I made a terrible mistake… I was thinking when I promote Grant to an army commander, then I get only minus 4 or 6 nation moral AND not 60! This really hurts me. However, for Grant it is worth.

I have now 3 objective. First objective is, that I will attack with Grant with a strength of 3800 Joseph E. Johnston.
The second is to send one army to Falmouth to secure the river and the third will take Winchester and then go south with the army.

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I have now planned a navel invasion, but not for Richmond, rather for New Orleans I have seen that Naturmix also build iron works there.

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My navel invasion with Butler, I will wait one round after this, I will attack New Orleans.
When I successfully taken New Orleans, I will then bring more reinforcement and then conquer the fortress.

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The first defeat for Grant, but at least I have taken the hill and the enemy must retreat his army.
And now I have the highground!

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Joseph E. Johnston, I did not expect that he is in new Orleans. Now, I hope I can retreat with Butler and his forces.

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I will try to breakthrough in the north with Grant. I hope this works. When this works, I can then probably take Richmond.

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The first naval battle in this round. As I expected I won this.

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In the far west, I did successfully capture the City Fillmore. After this I will march to the south and will slowly conquer Texas.

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This first great battle in the game, and I did not ecpectet the results. I almost won this.
I will now move Grant to the west and Irven Mcdowell will now take the position behind the river.

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I am now back from my break of the game with Naturmix and I am ready to win the war!

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Finally, I prepare an army with cavalry to clean the west. It was annoying to see, that small units have taken much land in the west. Now it is over!

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Naturmix, have taken with smalls units a few cities in Missouri, but with my cavalry I will take the cities back!

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My next plan will be to surround Stonewall Jackson. I hope I can encircle his army.

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Welcome home Butler. He lost zero manpower and also the navel invasion.

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I feel sorry for the 1800 sailors. Sry guys.

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Ok, the first step is good I have encircled Stonewall Jackson. Now I must wait that his supply is not enough to supply his troops. In addition, I will move one troops in the south of Irvin McDowell to secure the hill.

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My plan failed… again!! Stonewall has make a breakthrough of his encirclement with the help of Beauregard.

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I moved Grant to the west. Now I try to encircle Albert S. Johnston. I hope this will work.

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Ok, now Stonewall is a perfect position to be attacked. I will attack Stonewall, I think in two or three rounds. With Irvin McDowell, and because Irvin McDowell get reinforcement from the surrounding areas and Stonewall from Beauregard. This will be a really big battle!

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The west is almost perfect for me, I don’t believe this!
Shelby is in the north without supply!
And Albert S. Johnston is also in the north and I can surround him!

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I don’t expected this… Joseph E. Johnston was too quick with his railroads… I hope I can retreat with Sherman.

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Naturmix try’s new plans to destroy me, this time with breaking the game. : D

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Finally the first battle against POLLLLLK. (This is a great meme between Naturmix and me)
I have intercepted him with my navy at river crossing. I try this many times for Joseph E Johnston, but I was not lucky.

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Come Sherman only 3 days and the navy from Naturmix is too far away, to intercept him.

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I lost the battle but I have successfully retreat with Sherman.

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This is surprising, I was preparing to fight against Stonewall Jackson, but Robert E. Lee was much quicker than I was. I lost the battle and he is now moving forwards.

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As I predicted, Robert E Lee is moving forwards to the north. Nevertheless, even though he won the two battle, this was a hardly victory and a dangerous.

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Now the next gameday will be really imported! And this will perhaps decide which side will be victory.

I think that Naturmix will try to take Washington, because of this I moved Irvin Mcdowell and the army from William Rosecrans to the east of the position from Robert E Lee. And simultaneously will I move the army from Edwin Summer and C. Hamilton to the south to stop the possibly retreat and to encircle Robert E. Lee.

The Last problem that I have seen is in the south of the city Falmouth. I think that he will try to advance from the south to support Robert E. Lee, because of this I will move William B. Franklin to the city Falmouth to stop the advance.
I think there are 3. possibilities outcomes in the next couple of rounds.
1. He will take Washington and will mostly win this game
2. I will encircle him and destroy his army
3. He successfully will retreat.

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I have predictit Naturmix move wrong. For him to possible to end the war was too risky, that’s why he moves his army to the south and withdrawn from the Union territory.

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However, for the south in the city Falmouth, have I predict this right. But I also lost the battle and retreat to Manassas. However, I don’t think this is a defeat. Because he lost more than twice of his man.

The complete campaign from Naturmix in the north was almost a disaster and really costly for nothing.

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I have too few Ironclad to counter his 2. in the rivers. But wait for me Naturmix, 7 Monitors are on the way to Cairo. When they arrived, I will have the completely control of the river.

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I have two strategy, one for the east and one for the west, to destroy Naturmix.

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In the west, I have two goals
I have two goals in the west.
The first one is to attack with Grant Beauregard, but I don`t want to have the river penalty. This why I move with Grant to the north over the river and attack Beauregard on the west side.

The second goal is to attack Joseph E. Johnston, for this attack, I have two steps. The first one is to prepare my army in the north and in the south. After I have prepared my army, I will attack him from one side, and I hope that my army in the south will also get involved in the battle.

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In the east is my tactic to delay the retreat from Robert E Lee, to the CSA territory. I am still hoping that I can cut of his supply. To archive this I will move Irvin McDowell, to the city Winchester.

Simultaneously, will I attack with William S. Rosecrans the CSA generals James Longstreet to secure the river and the City Falmouth, I think that with the strength of William S. Rosecrans 1312 and the general William B. Franklin 876, that will support him from the west I can defeat Longstreet that only have a strength of 228.


In the north, I will attack the cavalry division with my cavalry. I hope this will work.

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My plan to cut of the supply of Robert E Lee failed and also to stop his retreat, but at least, the campaign in the north was a failure with great casualties.

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In addition, my plan in the west was also a failure, Joseph E. Johnston had a little skirmish with my units and have retreat to Saint-Louis.

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This is perfect, I intercepted a unit of Naturmix and completely destroyed it. Now I will attack Beauregard.

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I won, against Longstreet but under heavy casualties. I don’t expected this…
Because is shows me on the map that Longstreet have only a strength of 228 against my 1312. This why I thought that I will win this easily.

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One of my plan was a success. I won against Beauregard with Grant, and I am now in a good position to attack Beauregard again with reinforcement from the north.

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And like I expected, I lost again against Robert E. Lee and now he is retreating in CSA territory.

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This is a beautiful naval battle I destroy two Gunboats.
And with now the Monitors, I have now the complete control of the rivers in the inland.

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Naturmix what are you planning? I see your ships AND I will destroy them!

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The big disaster… sometime I hate this game… I attack with grant in the same province, like the battle before the only different is that I have reinforcement over the river… And I don’t know why but It seems, that only my guys over river attack Beauregard. Because of this I almost lost the army over the river completely.

This battle was really a disaster for me.

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I do not know why Naturmix send the ships in this place but I destroyed them.

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The cavalry battle. Naturmix have many smalls units in the west, that’s why I will build more cavalry.

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Naturmix send Albert S. Johnston to attack Sherman and try to stop his advents to the south.
But he underestimating my strengh, I have more man, with this reinforcement I try to push Albert S. Johnston out of Columbus.

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This time, with reinforcement. Come on COME ON! I will win this!

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OMG, I don’t believe this. I push Albert S. Johnston in the city. Now I must siege the city and cut of the supply and try the destroy his army! And I hope Naturmix will not try to help Albert S. Johnston.

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I should predicted this, Naturmix will 100% not sacrifice a completely army to me. This why he send a strong army to help Albert S. Johnston
But also this is really a surprise for me. Because this army together with Beauregard, stopped Grant from advancing. But now Grant is free to move.

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I should send more reinforcement to the west, but I will take Cairo back!

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I hope that Sherman army will survive this. But at least I can attack Beauregard with a strengh over 8000 and take Nashville.

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Again, a disaster. I didn’t expect that his army moves to Bowling Green.

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In the far west, I almost finished to destroy his army and after this I can undisturbed conquer Texas.

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I also got a victory against Joseph. E Johnston. But, I don’t know yet, if I should move from the north to cross over the river and take St Charlies or if I should retake Cairo.

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Each time Naturmix and me are playing this game we are talking and starting the round with a screen sharing. Because of this, I decided to use psychological warfare, to stop his attacks, confuse him, to lure him into attack or to feint an attack.
This why, I have giving Naturmix false information about my attack at Beauregard. (I changed my plan, that I will not attack Beauregard)But my real plan was it to rescue Sherman and his army, because this is far more imported.
And this plan worked perfectly. I completely surprised Naturmix and now I have the control of this area. This why I send to small units to conquer the area in the north for the supply.

My army in the left will attack Naturmix little army in the area on Inland 10. His General is only a level one star and the strength is really low.

My plan for Grant is that I will send him to the river to stop the advance from Beauregard.
And I have now decide to take Cairo, with the army in the north to secure the supply of my army.

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The east is completely different then the west, the east is like a stalemate. And I don’t want to attack because Robert E. Lee is to strong. I think I will focus on the defense and send some of my army from the east to the west.

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I have decided, after a long time of thinking that I will attack in the east. But first I will concentrating my army and then march to Culpeper.

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The initial attack was a success! The next step is to march to the city Charlottesville.

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My first try to retake Cairo was a failure. But round 2 is now starting. l will take it back and secure my supply!

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The map in the east.
I will try to secure my supply with 2. forces in the north.
I give Grant the task to attack Albert. J Johnston.
And Sherman and one two star general to defend the river against Beauregard.
In addition, I also send my fleet to stop the river crossing from Beauregard.

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The second time to secure my supply was also a failure. This situation is getting slowly of my hand.

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Is this really a defeat? I don't think so

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I was too greedy! I will move Irvin McDowell to the north and after I gathered my army I try a second time to take Charlottesville.

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At least I destroyed two of his gunboats.

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That I don't have supply really hits me hard! I was starting the campaign with Grant with 55.000 man. Now I have only 16.000 left. I must retreat behind the river! To get any supply!

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And also I lost the third round. I must also retreat with him. I don’t have any more supply!

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This is ok, I lost only a little bit. But I have successfully retreat to the north and now I preparing a second battle!

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That is not good. Not good. It seems that the complete western front will collapse and I will lose my army.

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This is not good for me, my army’s in the west do not have any supply and Beauregard is pushing my army to the south in the CSA territory. The last possibility to escape is on the river.

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My plan to lure some of Naturmix army in the west to the east to relieve the army in the east was a failure… Robert E. Lee has defeated my army and my hope.
I will try now to retreat behind the river, to secure my defense.

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This is now the map of the west. I successfully retreat with some of my small army’s but not with my main army Grant and Sherman…

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I think this is now the fourth or fifth battle of Cairo and and every time I lost.