Going ballistic after this game

[GShock]

According to Foote, a CSA Cavalry took 17 towns in a month and another took 11. So it isn't all that wrong that you can do it in game. If they are enemy towns they will most likely revolt and take it back right after you leave anyway.

After you take a town, before it may produce, some time must pass...you need to establish the town "manager" and use men to control the town. This would be easy to do...but actually to answer to the point, Gray issues a fine solution to the ahistorical movements. I believe Foote chronicled right...but taking and raiding are 2 different things.

[kyle]

I think 25% military control is good for RR movement.

It's abstract. It's not like there was only one... though I'm sure there was usually only one or two "main lines" within a state going from major cities....

But still, when was the last time a Union train looked different from a southern train. Once you get on... they all look the same...its the getting off at the station/stop that would be interesting and time consuming

[kyle]

I believe there was a movie Based on a true story... of American/british prisoners who escaped on a train within germany....granted it was ww2... and was a movie...not sure if true...

But my question I pose is not whether it's historical or not but whether it could have been done? Did anyone try? If that movie I saw was based on true events and really did happen... I don't think there's anything you could really say to refute the oppositon traveling on a train in enemy territory.

I really don't see how, with some ingenious thinking added, one couldn't do it. It's more, is it worth the risk.

Also, I was always under the impression that RR uses railroads within there travel, it didn't mean exclusively.

[kyle]

After you take a town, before it may produce, some time must pass...you need to establish the town "manager" and use men to control the town. This would be easy to do...but actually to answer to the point, Gray issues a fine solution to the ahistorical movements. I believe Foote chronicled right...but taking and raiding are 2 different things.

Taking and raiding are two different things but the can also be one and the same...

Mostly women and children in a village possibly...very few guns...a small band shows up with guns and says we might be back.. you better behave...

Maybe those towns didn't really like the North to begin with...hang a few loose ends...

There is also ransom. I believe Ewell on his march north of Gettsburg got a few towns to fork over money...I'd say they took the town... if they didn't why would they have to pay...granted when they left things probably return to somewhat normal situation... but taking control is that...control. It takes a matter of seconds to establish that. I don't won't to be morbid... but there are numerous examples today where control is established by a single person...with the absence of intervening outside help who is in control... how long did it take... seconds. Now with several hundred men...towns miles upon miles apart...I say control doesn't come quick enough.

How long did it take the British to control Philidelpia or Washington DC for that matter. Granted they burned Washington... but that doesn't mean they weren't in control.

[madgamer]

Rather than take your approach (which I used to do)I now no longer start with a short game but run the same series over and over several times till I ge it.
Madgamer