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I am in turn 12 of my first PBEM full war (April 1861) campaign of AACW. I am addicted. I can't wait to open the move when I get it. I let all my other PBEM opponents wait. I think about recruitment, mobilization, blockades, building corps, appointing generals and marching into Kentucky by day and by night. I am reading books on the ACW again, "How the North won" obviously being my favorite right now. I find myself whistling the background tunes on my way to work. I'll probably soon start dreaming of the Civil War. There's only three things I really regret ...

1. That I didn't play a campaign when the game came out a year ago. I did FBR, Shiloh from both sides, and then decided I didn't have the time for a full campaign. I missed one year of fun!

2. That the day has not 26 hours, so that I can spend two on an AACW move and still have time for my other PBEMs.

3. That I can never ever play the campaign again for the first time and experience every detail as if it would just happen, like real history.

Truly, what a wonderful game.

I agree!

Played 4 PBEMs since a few months ago.

1st PBEM played (around 50 turns) until JAN 63 lot of fun, helped me learn from my mistakes! There were a lot of them! I found a Good opponent!

2nd / 3rd PBEM were just a few turns play... one of them a tremendous sucess and other a enormous failure...

Now playing around turn 17 with leader mod with another player... Any mod makes AACW a different game, even more enjoyable! This mod slows a bit 61 war, due to various leader changes resulting in initial CP restrictions... seems more "historical" to me.

As modders seem to join efforts, I hope some day a "consensus" best mod could be decided!

Coregonas wrote:Now playing around turn 17 with leader mod with another player... Any mod makes AACW a different game, even more enjoyable! This mod slows a bit 61 war, due to various leader changes resulting in initial CP restrictions... seems more "historical" to me.

I do want to try the leader mod in my second PBEM. I am looking forward to it.

I've once try the leader mod. Alas it doesn't implement correctly with my french version of the game and run wild. So sad because it's a great add on.