Wed Aug 29, 2007 7:48 am
Frankly, I think the whole west needs to be reconsidered. Since the boxes apparently are fixed, perhaps Ageod could relabel them. Oregon was never a contested area. Rather, New Mexico was (perhaps a Ft. Union box and/or an Albuquerque/Santa Fe box representing the New Mexico region) would be useful where the Tucson box is. The Rocky Mtns (if needed at all) should be shifted to the "Great Plains" box (because Laramie is in the Rockies, not the Great Plains). Ideally, the California box could be changed to Tucson/Ft. Yuma (the only major crossing of the Colorado River), where a reasonable historical effort was made by both sides. California could be shifted to the Oregon box.
Some of the commanders, such as A.S. Johnston could start in California like they did historically, and see if they can make it east. In real life the garrison at Ft. Yuma knew of the CSA leaders crossing the nearby desert and river, but took no action.
I've mentioned in other threads that the travel times to and from the far west are highly unrealistic, and I'm glad others have noticed this too.
In other words, if you are going to rework some aspects of this region, you might consider reworking it in a bigger way.
