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The tune Rosin the Beau on the sound track came on and I realized that I recognized it. It was adapted as a shape note (aka Sacred Harp) tune which I had sung a few weeks ago at my local shape note singing. For those not familiar, shape note singing is a tradition that began in colonial America. It ...

aaminoff

http://www.uadata.org/

It is mostly pretty dry, you can get extracts in spreadsheet form.

My claim to fame is the site recently moved to a server I help administer. If you find anything that does not work right please let me know.

- Alex Aminoff, NBER

aaminoff

> Mines can not sink ships. They can only take half of what ever hits they have remaining. Mines are like Orbital Lasers in Fortress America: they fire first, sometimes they miss, but when they hit they have a huge effect on the upcoming battle. And they can be used anywhere on the map. They are cer...

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http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?34021-design-philosophy-on-regional-decisions My concern is that some regional decisions are overpowered, others are dubiously historical, and others are just plain busywork. It is certainly true that in PBEM one can adopt house rules about which to allow, ...

aaminoff

If I had to hazard a guess, it was set to 5 in order to make the Far West Scenario work, and then failed to get changed back when the FW scenario was back-ported into the main campaign, or something like that.

aaminoff

I have searched the manual and the forums for how to get the "console" so I can type loadreplay, with no success. Also there was something about having to load it first. If someone could post reasonably clear instructions that would be a big help. Thanks.

aaminoff

Well, I think the main problem is there is no consideration of things beyond one space away. In the case of naval battles, unless there happens to be a port adjacent to where you are fighting, what difference is there between one stretch of water and another? According to that algorithm, none. There...

aaminoff

When next you have some free developer time, please put some effort into making retreats work more sensibly. Playing as the Union, I had a fleet in Hampton Roads. My clever PBEM opponent brought a large fleet of ironclads from somewhere and beat them up. The remnants of my fleet then retreated into ...

aaminoff

Well, making strong statements is a fun way to get a discussion going. Why not. 1. No way of really knowing what settings your opponent is using. 2. No way of preventing changes in the settings once the game is underway. As I understand it, the only settings that matter are the ones the hosting play...

aaminoff

Since there is a thread already, I'm afraid a couple of the images bother me.

George Thomas looks like he's blind.
Reynolds looks like a zombie, he has some sort of streaks going down his face.

aaminoff

Trying to move from Archer Young to Jack, I get routed through Wichita, TX. I can also see that there is no link when I use the shift key with my stack in Archer Young selected.

Yes, I invaded Texas with 4 divisions.

aaminoff

one thing many people do not know is that almost 80% of all 'combats' were between just a few combatants. And that of all the combats, most were not recorded battles. Partisans required more than an army's worth of troops to keep the railroad open. This is a fair point. However, I don't think the c...

aaminoff

Play with Historical Attrition ON. Then you get Replacements at Depots only

I am under the impression that you can still recover *hits* on damaged elements, its just reconstituting entirely destroyed elements of a surviving brigade that requires a depot.

aaminoff

Hm. So it sounds like folks think Loyalty is pretty valuable, for a bunch of reasons, but Victory Points are not that big a deal? So paying 3VP for Habeas Corpus is a good deal?

Develop certainly seems like a good deal, you get both VP and loyalty for very little money.

aaminoff

Is there a posting somewhere from the devs on what the design philosophy was behind the regional decisions? Some of them seem reasonable; some really add a lot to the game, but most I am dubious about. The ones I like: build redoubt, build stockade, build depot. Build depot as a regional decision in...

aaminoff

In a PBEM as USA I lost a battle. I had one division. It seems to have taken 97 hits out of 123 from enemy fire and then the rest surrendered. I have 2 suggestions / bug reports. 1. As you can see from the screen shot, the cohesion symbol (grid with a plus sign) obscures the -122 that is the number ...

aaminoff

I hope this is the right place to post this.

aaminoff

Does anyone at AGEOD program in perl at all? while(<>) { /\$(\S+_[A-Z]{2})/ and $seen{$1}++; } foreach $region ( sort { $seen{$a} <=> $seen{$b} } keys %seen ) { print $region,"\t",$seen{$region},"\n"; } This will print all the names of regions that end in a 2-uppercase-letter state code sorted by th...

aaminoff

While on this file, as I pointed out in the other thread, there is City Point and Suffolk also on the James River behind Ft Monroe. Possibly City Point is not listed because (according to the list in that thread) it has no blockade-effect value anyway, but Suffolk should in principle be included.

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I would hazard a guess that it only applies to the CSA because a port being blockaded in this way is only relevant for blockade percentage purposes, not for any other use of the port. Which is still a bug, but there it is. I think I read in another thread somewhere someone complaining that they were...

aaminoff

Browsing the data folders, I found a file called USADistantBlockades, which does indeed seem to define ports that are blockaded by specific "distant" forts being enemy controlled. I started a new April 61 campaign as CSA using 1.02 and in fact I see "harbor being blockaded by enemy ships or forts" i...

aaminoff

This is amazingly useful information. Looking at the unit tooltips, I see that Blockade Ships (which you can only get inside a Blockade Squadron) have a Blockade Value of 10 - which is why 6 of them + a few more from the other two ships = 67. Brigs on the other hand have a Blockade Value of 2, so th...

aaminoff

For whatever reason the PBEM looking for an opponent forum is centralized across AGEOD games, here:

http://www.ageod-forum.com/forumdisplay.php?88-PBEM-and-multiplayer-matchups-%28all-games%29

It took me a while before I found it. Hopefully this link will help others.

aaminoff

Hi. I am interested in getting my feet wet with CW2 PBEM. I never did get around to trying AACW as PBEM, bad timing with some life events, but I did play the old game vs the AI and I've played CW2 against the AI. I have a slight preference for the Union only because I've played a full campaign that ...

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I was noticing in my game as the Union against the AI, Largeish confederate forces getting as far as Denver, CO before starting to go unsupplied. If the AI can do that then I would worry that a human playing the CSA could mount a division+ scale offensive across the plains of Texas, Kansas, and Colo...

aaminoff

spoke too soon, after I waited long enough the problem happened again.

I will just have to remember to save a lot. It is frustrating but oh well.

aaminoff

I moved on with the game, have not seen that bug again, though I have not gone out of my way to reproduce it.

aaminoff

In the "game settings" I changed Display from "Standard (optimized)" to "Fullscreen", and so far I have not seen the problem, though I have not tested exhaustively.

aaminoff

If I alt-tab over to do something else, then after some time when I go back to the game, usually by clicking on it on my task bar, I get a black screen but the mouse pointer is the recognizable brass pen. Nothing I click or type appears to have any effect. Eventually I have to kill the process, and ...

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I moused over an indian village with my forces and when I moused up to drop the force into the village it crashed.

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I still can not upload the hst or ord files for some reason.

Search found 56 matches

Rosin the Beau = 338 Sawyer's Exit

Union Army demographic and economic data site

How do you get the replay?

venting about retreats

missing connection Archer Young, TX - Jack, TX

design philosophy on regional decisions?

division surrendered but no message

missing connection Ness, KS - East Cheyenne, CO

unresponsive after switching back in windows 7

crash when entering indian village