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Rod Smart

Put all your best generals and troops in Northern Virginia, and make a rush for DC. The longer the war goes, the stronger the Union gets. Or, play a game as the Union. They have a higher margin for error. You can lose battles for years, and still have enough resources to win the war - just like real...

Rod Smart

Following up - even after England and France intervened, the Confederacy continued to use the decisions to bring them into the war.

They were sacrificing NM in an attempt to get something they already had.

That seems broken.

Rod Smart

Working as designed.

If you want to “demote” a three star general, give him command of the army of Minnesota. Or a weak corp under a higher ranked three star.

Like with Pope and the previously mentioned Hooker and Burnside

Rod Smart

As the Union, I forced an intervention once. Intentionally taking all the wrong decisions, trying to get them to intervene. It was fun! Sending Grant steamrolling through Canada, and then off to capture London and Paris. While sending amphibious corps to capture Caribbean islands instead of the usua...

Rod Smart

Now the other question is which would be better: A brigade of 2 line, 1 SS or a brigade of 1 line, 1 conscript, 1 conscript cav. If you need them to fight right-damn-now, the brigade with the sharpshooter. If you're recruiting for garrison duty, or for the eventual incorporation into a division, th...

Rod Smart

In the points to know it mentions to have a reactionary force for a counter attack on a coastal invasion. It mentions a 1,000 power division. How is the accomplished with a division? That was my point to know! I accomplished this by using Shelby to command a division built around the Stonewall brig...

Rod Smart

Also, I don't recall when an entire corps was ever sent to conduct an amphibious assault. It happened. First one I wikipedia'd was the first battle of Fort Fisher - a corp of the Army of the James versus a division of the Army of Northern Virginia. To the original post, land them on a turn, and the...

Rod Smart

I've had CSA chose the foreign intervention option .... after already getting foreign intervention

Rod Smart

I IIRC the artillery leader bonus is given to the entire stack. As well as boni from cavalry leader, bridges and marines. I always try to put one light infantry in every division. The tooltip says the Marine bonus is only for that division, not the entire stack the marine is in. Good point with the...

Rod Smart

My thoughts: A division by itself: 1 elite brigade (never more than 1, or you waste an elite unit) 1 sharpshooter (never more than 1, or you actually make the division worse) 2 cavalry regiments 1 Marine/Sailor (if applicable, and never more than 1) 0 specialty units (engineers, pontoons, hospital- ...

Rod Smart

I have never experienced Athena to build a Navy larger than the Union. I have never experienced Athena to build a Navy SMALLER than the Union. In games that last into 1864. In part because I only build transports, stock replacements to fill out the damaged fleets I'm given, and completely ignore bu...

Rod Smart

. Sometimes they make bad battle decisions but they lose like 5-7NM in one fight and then it's just snowballed down from there, so having a way to edit their NM back would give them more fight. Compared to other AGEOD games, the NM swing is pretty large for big fights. Worse than that, the decision...

Rod Smart

Set to Colonel, and the South still seems more concerned with building timberclads to guard east coast rivers than purchasing replacements.

Rod Smart

After winning, I like to back up a couple turns and try a comeback with the other side. I've noticed that it doesn't seem like the AI is buying replacements for any units. The F2 replacement pop-up is way in the red, and a lot of brigades are missing elements. I thought perhaps it was because I was ...

Rod Smart

If you can afford the NM hits from losses, and they cannot afford the manpower losses from victories, do that. If you lose 40,000 men, they lose 20,000, but they can only replace 10,000 of those 20,000, then you will eventually win. Grant lost every battle in the Spring of '64. But he could replace ...

Rod Smart

We were wondering though what to do if one absolutely had to take it. The city had over 10 000 Power in it and though the union could happily walk all the way around it and surround the city there did not seem to be a way to starve it out and frontal attacks were costly to say the least. Is there a...

Rod Smart

You can never unmerge them HOWEVER! When you merge two recruited volunteer units together, one of them gets added back to the force pool. So you could, for example, recruit all 10 volunteers in the force pool for Virginia, merge them together, then on the next turn recruit 5 more! Extremely useful f...

Rod Smart

Captain_Orso wrote:BTW strategic levels don't rise through gained experience levels, only offensive and defensive.

For every three experience stars, the strategic rating increases by 1. To a maximum of 6.

Rod Smart

2 volunteer units (merged into 1 unit) garrisoned in every town with a depot throughout Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and up the Missouri River. This is enough to stop any partisans or single regiment cavalry raiders from capturing a town/burning a garrison. It's enough to force a battle if a small briga...

Rod Smart

Remember that commanders ratings can increase in value the more you use them.

I once got Fremont to 9 experience stars, as he was the closest 3 star early in the war when the South came through Cairo. 3 years of Verdun-like warfare later, he was something like a 5-5-6.

Rod Smart

1- Bragg and Hardee have trainer traits. Put them out of the way somewhere with a bunch of militia, and let them train. I put Bragg in NO with all the LA and MS militia, and Hardee in Springfield/Fayetteville with all the MO militia. By '62, those militia start becoming regulars. And as always, recr...

Rod Smart

The above posts are correct - those symbols tell you things that happened during the battle. However, they are not all past-tense. You can use some of them to predict what will happen next, and to figure out your next turn's strategy. For example: If there are symbols that say low on ammunition or o...

Rod Smart

Stealing some ideas from other games: - NM loss even if you "win" a battle. The old SSI game No Greater Glory had this. If the North had Antietam and Shiloh the same week, the population would have been horrified by the losses, even with the tactical victories. In that game, if you had too...

Rod Smart

Does the Aide need to be the same star level as the commanding general? An unattached three star 1864 Sherman should increase Grant's stack. An unattached one star 1861 post-Bull Run Sherman should not increase McDowell's stack. ________________________________________ I'm just guessing. I've never ...

Rod Smart

Blue and green means that your unit will defend, and run away at the first sign of trouble. That's not what you want, since it means that you are telling your unit to fight, and to retreat after the first round. You are getting your weak units killed on the first round of battle. Set to green/green,...

Rod Smart

The original post is mostly right, corps will support defending stacks even across muddy hills in the snow. Mostly. A couple of examples off the top of my head: - Army HQ stacks. Even in the same region. That's a discussion we've had a couple times. - Locked/fixed units. - As mentioned, if the battl...

Rod Smart

You seem to have it straightened out, but I'll add something that I have come across: You can't create corps using locked units. If you want to create a corp consisting of locked units (may be useful for all those locked units in Alexandria and DC), take the two star out of the stack, promote him to...

Rod Smart

I don't need to tally up victory points to know how well I did. As the south, if I win, and hold Kentucky and Missouri and have minimal inflation and a decent navy, then I really won. I have a true country with a bright future. As the south, if I win, but lost Kentucky and Missouri and most of Tenne...

Rod Smart

My number 1 tip is this: As CSA, use the War Bonds and Taxes decisions twice each before using the Print more money so it will balance the variation. BUILD FACTORIES AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THE OPTION, DO NOT GET ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE YOU EXHAUST THOSE DECISIONS. Print more money increases inflation. Ra...

Rod Smart

My nephew and I are playing our first game of AACWII, after waging numerous campaigns of the original. I just ran into something I can't find an explanation for. Playing as the Confederates I'm looking to reinforce my forces in Tennessee and freed up Stonewall Jackson's division. But when I try to ...

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Re: Points to Know - CSA

Re: Anyone ever play a game where Britain and France came in?

Re: Demote general

Re: Anyone ever play a game where Britain and France came in?

Re: Division composition question

Re: Points to know for the Confederates

Re: Landing seperate corps

Re: AI poor decision choice

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Re: Division composition question

Re: Stopping the AI from building so many ships!

Re: How do I give Athena a shot of adrenaline mid-game?

Re: AI not purchasing replacements

AI not purchasing replacements

Re: 10 000 Power in Richmond

Re: 10 000 Power in Richmond

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Re: Command Ratings

Re: Stopping CSA Leakers

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Re: A few things to consider / wishlist

Re: battle results statistic

Re: Suggestions Box

Re: Aid-de-campe

Re: Scouting with Cavalry with success

Re: IS failing to MTSG possible?

Re: More beginner questions on forming Corps and Divisions

Re: Game still to unbalanced for CSA

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