Gray_Lensman wrote:
I chose 3-Star because Major General is used in-game for 2-Star Generals and a Lieut. General is actually a 4-Star General. I could not find a specific promotional event announcement for a 3-Star General... Besides, I found the 3-Star General more informative for use in-game.
Are you sure? I'd think it should be as follows in AACW:
1-star Confederate major generals and a mix of Union brigadier generals and major generals (in command of a division)
2-star most Confederate lieutenant generals and most Union major generals (in command of corps)
3-star a few Confederate lieutnant generals (Hood, Pemberton and some like jackson who died early) and otherwhise full generals, Union lieutnant generals (in command of armies)
4-star Cooper for the Confederates and full generals for the Union
I wouldn't be astonished if a problem had crept into the game over time. As far as I've always understood it the various AACW ranks are based on commands held (or that could have been held) in the war and not actual ranks. But I assume quite a few other generals gradually slipped into the game just based on their wartime rank...
P.S.: Both sides actually had more or less the same rank system during the war, iirc based on some pre war militia regulations written by Hardee (certainly by a later Confederate general). But the Union rapidly started to diverge from those rules leading to those sometimes confusing rules (and yes, Confederate generals could also command a level up, but usually that was just a temporary situation until a promotion could be ratified or another commander take over)...
P.P.S.: Gray I know you understand the system of ranks in both armies, my P.S.: was just intended for other readers who might be less familiar with the details of the war...
Marc aka Caran...