Page 1 of 1

Greatest Tragedy in AACW History - A Nation Mourns

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 8:00 am
by Guru80
I will post a detailed account of the disastrous campaign tomorrow since I am going to bed, to bummed to play out this turn tonight (plus it is 2 am and I have to be up in 5 hours when the kids get up :niark: )

The Obituary reads as follows, all KIA in Giles.
John Schofield
Abel Streight
Jefferson C. Davis
Rufus King
John A. Logan
U.S. Grant
Fredrick Steele
Robert B. Mitchell
William T. Sherman
C. Devens
T. Wood
D. Gregg
J. Dix
R. Johnson
James B. McPherson
C. Pratt
J. McArthur
John A. McClenard
J. Geary
A. Von Steinwehr
A. Whipple
L. Rousseau
John C. Fremont

And the remaining 12,000 brave Union boys of a once Grand and large Army

Posted: Mon Dec 17, 2007 9:11 pm
by berto
All joking aside, in a recent Atlanta scenario game, although no leaders were killed, in a titanic 8-9 day siege battle, virtually the entire Army of Tennessee was annihilated. I estimate that in those 8-9 days, the South lost 40,000+ men, and the North 30,000+! :eek:

This doesn't seem quite right. Maybe because it was the last turn of the scenario, and the objective was to take Atlanta, the Northern battle AI was unusually persistent?

Questions: Is the battle AI perhaps too tenacious, and keep the two sides battling long after their "historical counterparts" would have put a (at least temporary) stop to the awful carnage? Do other players think that maybe this tenaciousness needs to be toned down? Or is this to be expected from sieges? (But I can't think of any siege assaults in the Real War that lasted for days and days on end.)

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 1:48 am
by DirkX
looks rather ok'ish to me.

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 5:04 am
by humblelawstudent
My battles never last more than a day! Even if the battle involves over 100k men and tens of thousands of losses. I guess my men are just too efficient at the art of killing . . .

Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2007 12:03 pm
by caranorn
This example doesn't look like an outrageous result to me, rather an isolated force getting whipped out and it's leaders couldn't relocate to a safe city.

Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:20 am
by Hohenlohe
In one of my battles as Union against the South I reduced the Northern Virginian Army of the South to his generals killing only two of them.I did not remember the losses but they were awful.

greetings

Hohenlohe :cwboy: