DrPostman wrote:They aren't suppose to lose the CSS Virginia. It shows up with Buchanan a turn or
two later in City Point or Richmond, I don't recall which, if Norfolk isn't taken.
Actually, I cannot find any such event. Either the CS captures Norfolk between May '61 and Feb '62 or it doesn't get the CSS Virginia.
If the CS does take Norfolk in that time period the construction of both the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor will be started at that time.
I can find no other event which could produce the CSS Virginia.
plasticpanzers wrote:Generally I don't know how you can get CSS Virginia unless you sieze Norfolk as it was anchored/burned there but even at Lt level
unless I send some Union troops to bust the railway in Suffolk there is still no attempt to take Norfolk by the Rebs.
If the game were to depart from history and the South not take Norfolk, there is no reason that another ship, even an ironclad, could not be give the named CSS Virginia, but it would not be the
historical CSS Virginia.
I've had the South put substantial efforts into retaking Norfolk. More often than not, too-little-too-late. But other times I could just barely hold on, and other times yet I've lost it.
I'm not sure why Athena waits so long early in the war to take and occupy Norfolk. From what I can see, Norfolk has the highest local-interest for the Southern AI of all locations in '61.