charlesonmission wrote:I've never played, the union, but what do you need to do to build clads in a souther state as the union. Is it take over the capital and a harbor?
Or, am I thinking of a different game.....
Charles
charlesonmission wrote:But not Maryland and Deleware?
I know that the CSA does get a Maryland line brigade.
Charles
Longshanks wrote:In a recent game, I managed to get the two CSA ironclads that show up as reinforcements late in the game at Wilmington NC all the way to the gulf side of Florida by putting them on G/G and running like H E double hockey sticks!
So, it can be done ....
Longshanks wrote:Running all the confederate forts with a UNION ironclad... that would be nearly impossible.
Capt Cliff wrote:How can I move Ironclads to the Gulf from the Northeast without getting them beat-up by every fort they pass?? I made sure the fleet was not set to bombard, but still the forts fire on them. That seems a bit excessive. Gun's at this time had limited range and a ironclad should be able to navigate the coast area without being fired at. Should I select the avoid combat button?
Ol' Choctaw wrote:I won't ask why you want them in the Gulf but you can get them there much easier by moving them to Chicago and down the river than clearing out all of the forts.
From New York to Chicago takes about a month with good weather and about another month to month and a half, perhaps two, down to New Orleans.
Of course there are still the fort at Island 10 and guns at Memphis and Vicksburg to get past. But it is not the dozen or so you have to pass to round the Florida Keys.
Ol' Choctaw wrote:Ironclads trump every other ship type, seemingly. If you don’t have any and the enemy dose you can forget about invading.
Armored Frigates are no use against them, either.
Capt Cliff wrote:New Orleans. My first attempt at taking New Orleans I ran into 3 ironclads at the river mouth. They in turn ran rough shod over my invasion fleet pushing it up the river to Baton Rouge. I had at least 2 armored frigates with Farragut and other warships. It seems to me if you hit the avoid battle button you should not engage the forts along the coast. The range of gun in those days was 2 or 3 miles, but accuracy was the most important attribute.
Capt Cliff wrote:This is a game changer!! If this is true then there needs a way to skirt forts with Union ironclads, the avoid combat button is ideal. I still say you can be in a coastal area and NOT be in range of a fort. I just finished reading Lincoln's Admirals and the Federals used ironclads up and down the east coast. I don't think they battled every fort the passed by.
Jim-NC wrote:True, but the current situation is how the game is designed. Maybe for AACW 2, there should be coastal regions not next to the fort (so that the ships must get right up next to the fort to go to the river behind, but this way they can sail past the forts if they so desire. The designers could split each coastal region to allow movement past the forts (this would involve a serious map change).
Ol' Choctaw wrote:Now that it is there it will not be bombarded until it moves unless he selects bombard for his fleet.
Bombardment on the James is also kind of bugged. I usually only works against the CSA but it will sometimes work when Union ships move east out of the river.
Ol' Choctaw wrote:Now that it is there it will not be bombarded until it moves unless he selects bombard for his fleet.
Bombardment on the James is also kind of bugged. I usually only works against the CSA but it will sometimes work when Union ships move east out of the river.
Longshanks wrote:I assumed the "double adjacency" rule was kicking in, rather than bombardment being bugged. Such manuvers as Hooker did are common, in my experience, against PBEMers.
Chuske wrote:Only just got to late '62 in my game and just realised the difficulty getting Monitors to the Gulf coast. Such a shame we can't easily re-enact the attack on Mobile etc
Also finding the attrition is pretty bad for monitors, cohesion going from Annapolis to Ft Monroe in fair weather is pretty harsh in latest beta patch.
Has anyone ever got a monitor to Ft Pickens?
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