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Uncle Billy

No follow up to this? I'm guessing brpounds still has the same problems? I have a similar rig, the boxset version of the game, and similar problems, so I'm adding to this thread. The game as it is is an absolute unplayable, buggy mess, and that's with the patch, on a fresh install. And after I've tu...

Uncle Billy

I second that, the artillery as it is now is 'ok' but lacks personality and a real reason to buy half of it. I like McNaughton's proposals.

Uncle Billy

In another post I mentioned that the Union does not get the starting '61 generals in DC present in the April campaign when starting a July campaign. Gray Lensman quickly came to the rescue with a fixit mod that you can find on the original post here I've noticed another oddity, and that is that the ...

Uncle Billy

Jim, it may not have been all that costly, but I do think the game needs some mechanism to prevent 'on the fly' divisions to represent that ACW divisions were fairly stable and not reorganized and tweaked every two weeks, which is something the player might do if there weren't any costs associated w...

Uncle Billy

You don't repay the cost if you recombine troops in the same turn, otherwise everytime you moved units in and out of a division you'd have to pay. I was under the impression that the divisional command remained indefinitely anyway, otherwise why have a 'remove divisional command' button? The importa...

Uncle Billy

I suppose an admiral with fort runner and evade orders would be the best you could do. This is as it should be though, monitors are shore huggers and there to pound forts and protect your shores. Use seaworthy vessels for big movements around the continent.

Uncle Billy

Great work on that Lensman! Just in time to start a new campaign.

Uncle Billy

Is he a three star general? I didn't think they could be division commanders.

Uncle Billy

Thanks for clearing that up, maybe I should send a note to someone from ageod about this.

Uncle Billy

OK, I've gotten them on turn two starting in April. However, I never get these DC generals in the July campaign, except for Keyes. They should already be on the map by then. I've played the start of the July campaign exclusively since I got the game (fighting most battles with divisional generals, a...

Uncle Billy

I've looked in April and they aren't in the roster, let alone in DC. Just how many starting generals in DC are there? I get none. Are you playing with the latest patches?

Also, I bought through Matrix download, if that makes a difference in comparisons.

Anyone else have this issue?

Uncle Billy

Something someone mentioned in another thread has me confused, namely that the Union starts with several two star generals in 1861 (april or July, I'm not sure). Namely C. Hamilton and R. Milroy. Now, no campaign that I have ever played has any starting generals in DC other than old fuss and feather...

Uncle Billy

I just fired up fresh April and July 61 campaigns and those generals aren't there. Is there normally a 'starting generals pool' in DC? If so, I've never seen it in the July 61 campaign outside of the demo.

Uncle Billy

I kinda cheat a little due to the strategic rating thing I will form a corps with one of the 2 stars and move out with the Corps by late july if McDowell is activated (and at a 2 he rarely is, he should get a free activation in late july). What 2 star generals are you using? I've played this many t...

Uncle Billy

I think what you are really asking is how to form a division, ie. squeeze a bunch of brigades and elements into one unit under a leader (like the division in those corps). Just having a leader and a group of units in one stack doesn't mean something is a division. All the commands for this are in th...

Uncle Billy

I won't pretend to have the defintive answer to any of your questions, however I think state of origin is primarily cosmetic except for two things 1) militia fighting 2) the limit of regiments each state can provide. In cases where a state of origin isn't given, the unit is probably a USA unit, ie. ...

Uncle Billy

Ah, that makes sense, I'm always in supply view and probably hadn't noticed that when the change takes place.

Uncle Billy

I think your goal in the east needs to be to contain the confederate army and take manassas, winchester, and harpers ferry. I intially detached some divisions from McDowell and moved them to prevent the CSA flanking my forces in Alexandria and making a bid for DC. One of my McDowell divisions also w...

Uncle Billy

It means the commander of the stack does not have enough command to completely manage all the soldiers in the stack, and to see the difference just having units combined in a division makes use the 'uncombine' button in the tent menu (a red minus sign) on the division and watch that red number incre...

Uncle Billy

1) the number of lights are the size, and the color indicates their condition, I believe its their power (there relative coherence and strength), but I'm not sure precisely what it is beyond a measur eof their condition (ie. yellow and red mean the units are weaker than full strength). 2) this takes...

Uncle Billy

@jimwinsor, ah that clears it up nicely, It didn't seem like I was being penalized when the next turn rolled around either, so it had me confused. @grotius, thanks for clearing up blockades, I think I may not have been blocking all possible outlets in many cases. Though does a brig unit count as one...

Uncle Billy

In that case you can either use them as stack commanders without assigning them as a divisional chief (they'll get a bit of a command penalty, but in many cases having them is better than nothing, and useful for garrisons or sittign in cities to use special abilities like recruiter). Also, some may ...

Uncle Billy

I have also noticed a difference in time for readiness, I wonder if it has to do with what city they show up in, number of other untis raised in the same map square, supply level, etc. I have noticed some units that wont move even though they aren't padlocked and are at full strength, I think these ...

Uncle Billy

I like auto repair, not so much the idea of cutting raids down anymore then they have been, though I've yet to play long with the new fix. Auto repair I think would work best as an 'in game' policy rather than an option from the option menu, if practicable. The game is so vast its easy to miss a des...

Uncle Billy

Caesar, if those generals aren't locked you can make divisional commanders out of them with a button in the 'tent' special menu. Then you can assign a larger number of troops to them than normal (and keep them effective), and combine them with a button in the same menu. All those one star led divisi...

Uncle Billy

Its been said War is Hell, but this wargame may be as close to heaven as I'll ever get... Apologies in advance if these questions have been discussed, I've been is a leraning curve frenzy of reading the forums and manual and playing the game, and I may have missed some things. 1) Does it make sense ...

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