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One feature a day serie: #8 The various kinds of movements

Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:09 am

AACW features fully integrated rail and riverine transports which allows troops to smoothly combine the various movements types in the same turn. Improve your network by laying new rails and buying new locomotives. Lay waste to the enemy network by destroying rails. Use Riverine movement to surprise your opponent and block waterways or estuaries with forts, ironclads, gunboats and emplaced batteries.
Locomotives and riverine boats are handled by the Transport Pool, at the national level. You can expand this pool to allow more troops to be moved, or at the very least you will want to maintain it, as rolling stocks and locomotives suffer from wear and tear regularly.

But that's not all, as you also have both ocean going ships, and shallow draft river or coastal ships. The Union will have most of these units, unless the Confederate player spend a significant part of his income into a naval strategy ...

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Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:08 pm

I cannot see the image. :siffle:
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Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:09 pm

Generalisimo wrote:I cannot see the image. :siffle:


Indeed, I cannot see it either.

Aye.

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Tue Nov 28, 2006 5:12 pm

seems like Imageshack removed the image from his server...
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Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:48 pm

I can see them now and they look really cool!
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Wed Nov 29, 2006 2:03 pm

Now solved, thanks.
They look really cool. :D
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 8:44 am

So, to utilize the railroad to transport units from place A to place B, you drop the locomotive icon into your army stack, and it increases the speed/rate of advance/logistical capability of your command?

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Sun Dec 03, 2006 9:57 am

not exactly, you just switch ON the special order "move by rail" for the said stack. And you can do the same for "riverine move". Both movements are privileged movements and are co-existing with the normal one: it means that the stack will use the lowest cost each time, and can do nice combinations like rail-river-foot in the same turn. Rail is very fast, river allow you to "walk on water" (but don't get caught!).
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Sun Dec 03, 2006 10:11 am

Ah, that's new.

Are rail lines shown on the map?

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Limitations to movement?
Forrest said something about killing a Yankee for each of his horses that they shot. In the last days of the war, Forrest had killed 30 of the enemy and had 30 horses shot from under him. In a brief but savage conflict, a Yankee soldier "saw glory for himself" with an opportunity to kill the famous Confederate General... Forrest killed the fellow. Making 31 Yankees personally killed, and 30 horses lost...

He remarked, "I ended the war a horse ahead."

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Tue Jan 02, 2007 3:43 pm

Found that one as well. Really a good job.

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Forrest said something about killing a Yankee for each of his horses that they shot. In the last days of the war, Forrest had killed 30 of the enemy and had 30 horses shot from under him. In a brief but savage conflict, a Yankee soldier "saw glory for himself" with an opportunity to kill the famous Confederate General... Forrest killed the fellow. Making 31 Yankees personally killed, and 30 horses lost...



He remarked, "I ended the war a horse ahead."

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Tue Jan 02, 2007 5:15 pm

jelay14 wrote:Ah, that's new.

Are rail lines shown on the map?


yes, and when you build a railline, the graphic of the region changes.
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