Peninsular Campaign

[hootieleece]

I am playing a campaign as the Union. How would one recreate the McClellan's peninsular campaign? Is there a way to do it without building a huge fleet of transports? I want to outflank the confederates and take Richmond. (I want to scare TJ Jackson out of Harpers ferry) any suggestions would be welcomed.

Hootieleece

PS I finally got version 1.09e up and running, vast improvement

[arsan]

Hi!
You can transport your units using riverine movement if you hug to the coast. Its slower but doable.
Just beware to not pass by any confederate fortress on the way and to protect the area with some ships. From Washington DC to Fort Monroe (best start up location for a Peninsular campaign) the way is clear and the small CSA navy is not a danger. So you can do it easely
For expeditions down the coast it's better and faster to use real transports.
In any case, each transport can carry half a division so you don't need that many.
Besides, these ships are cheap, can be used to build depots and give supplies and stationed on the Shipping box gives you lots of money ans war supplies.
They are agreat investment! You can't have too much of them!
Regards!

[Coffee Sergeant]

it will take forever using the riverine transports. Its 5 days per region plus it takes alog longer to unload.

You should have enough transports to do it, A corps of two divisions should weight about 80, including supply and support units So thats 4 transports per corps, with 8 transports you should be able to move two corps (around 40k men). In three turns you would be able to move 80k men.

You should only need a few more besides the ones you can pull from the Shipping lanes. I build them anyways even if I'm not planning a large amphibious invasion as they are useful for generating money in the Atlantic shipping, bolstering the defenses in the vulnerable forts like Monroe and Pickens, and for building depots along coastal regions(much cheaper than supply wagons in both money and conscripts )