User: Abraham Lincoln
Current US President
Join date: March 4th, 1861
Location: Washington DC, USA
Played a PBEM the last few years with Jeff. We won't make this into an AAR, nobody had time for screenshots because it was too engrossing for that. It was pretty bloody I guess, definitely towards the end and mostly in the east.
The war ended as we had both expected - a total Northern victory, but I took a few special measures:
- I moved quickly down to Corinth to avoid getting bogged down in Kentucky and Tennessee;
- I was a bit worried about the Brits coming in, so I made the Emancipation Proclamation and therefore Jeff was forced to think of ways of wining the war on his own.
Even if we could see how it was going to end, Jeff fought on even as I was heading to the Carolina Coast with Sherman. Talking of that, congratulations for the way you handled Hood and Forrest. My heart really sank when that cavalryman person started strangling Sherman's supplies. Seeing Joe Johnston in Georgia was also something I had definitely not expected.
On another note,
to all rules about fortifications. I was attacking with 3-to-1 odds and no success! All those battles in Northern Virginia were horrid. Fredericksburg must have been a bug.
Also, please remind me for our next PBEM to move McClellan somewhere far, far away to the north and far, far away from anything resembling a battlefield.
Same for Burnside.
(it's so sad that we cannot delete generals once they enter the game!)
Speaking of generals, my greatest asset was Grant
Once he got 3 stars nobody could stop me. That's what I was waiting for the first few years, making sure he got experience and gathering the victory points necessary for promoting him over the other crappy generals Though I must confess I had some hope with those probing attacks in Manassas.
Your thoughts, please.
User: Jefferson Davis
Former CSA President
Join date: February 18th, 1861
Location: via laptop from bus to Mexico City
You are happy you won, I was actually very stunned to see it take so long! Here's what I was completely unprepared for:
- the bad state of my troops in Fort Henry;
- the inconsistency of Bragg which led to the fall of Tennessee;
- your competent use of naval invasions. I am still crying over New Orleans
- how I never had enough conscripts.
I also lost Albert S. Johnston in that stalemate battle in Corinth. What a mess that made of my army structure
I was also quite happy to see that you had left the West alone. I was not ready for Missouri, to be honest I was pumping all my troops into Northern Virginia. I really disliked that Nathaniel Lyon leader you had and I knew Price wasn't upto the job. Good thing for me Lyon died in that skirmish in SW Missouri - and you were smart enough to let the whole theater away.
I see you're not saying a word about Lee, though I thought I really had a shot. I had seen you had massed your troops around Washington, and I knew you were cautious enough to protect Philadelphia. I was waiting for you to attack me, in truth. Jeb Stuart had done so well for me in the past, and just now he turned on me and failed to march to the sound of the guns
My complaints about the engine and perhaps rules for future PBEMs:
- the economy is too hard to manage if you're playing as the CSA;
- CSA navy is way, way too weak;
- maybe we should have set the option of an easier British intervention? Just to give me a chance to actually win?
