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Seeing as thats exactly what happened. Gates was first given control of the southern campaign and then Greene, Both had to ride south.

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This is an excerpt from "In the presence of mine enemies" by Edward L. Ayers I think Waddell represents very well the inner struggle of both sides. Augusta is right on the border in Northern Virginia and his central location is analgous to the central position of where most american were regarding t...

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Dear CS: I don't agree with that at all! I sat aboud the front proch and liviing rooms of my Grandparents. They were unviersally of the opinion that slavery was the cause of the war. :p apy: Yes absolutly slavery was the cause of the war, and if not directly a "cause" then it was at the root of wha...

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The cause of the war for the south also totally depends on which region and what social class the particular southener was from. For the men who actually started the war, the firebreathers, the rich white men from the cotton south, louisiana, alabama, mississippi, georgia, and south carolina the cau...

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Ok I am wanting to do some serious modding for AACW. I've got the database and have started looking through everything and would like to get a few questions answered before i jump in and start modding. 1) Is it possible to mod in the ability to form brigades from single elements (just like militia),...

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Ok I am wanting to do some serious modding for AACW. I've got the database and have started looking through everything and would like to get a few questions answered before i jump in and start modding. 1) Is it possible to mod in the ability to form brigades from single elements (just like militia),...

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If you can point me towards the files and arguments in the code where I can change this so I don't have to do that research this I can do just that. I don't have alot of time and cutting the research portion out would help, if it's possible to implement what I stated above I would be glad to so. The...

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edit: deleted double post.

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Let me be as clear as possible the nomenclature issue is that there are two seperate game objects WITH THE SAME NAME. "Conscription points" and "Conscript" as a "title of element experience level". This is a violation of the most simplistic of all data rules. Especially since there is absolutly no r...

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Actually it is a little more complicated. Militia progresses to volunteers, then conscripts, then early war and finally late war infantry. Cavalry progresses from conscript to early war and then late war cavalry. The percentage chance to advance varies for each level and for different time frames o...

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One of the few areas of really poor design in the game is the militia -> Line infantry(conscript) -> line Infantry -> Experience Points Thats the progression. Militia every turn have a ~5% chance to turn into Line Infantry and when the do so there marked as conscripts. Now it might have been adjuste...

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Heh, if anything they should get a bonus to putting out fires; most zouaves were firefighters, mostly scottish heritage, and from New York.

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GShock all I'll say is that the numbers pretty much never add up in this game. For instance when you get new factories that say for instance give you + war supplies the +112 from last turn and the +4 from the factories you got this turn somehow = 115. Thats not always true I am just saying there are...

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As much as I think the game could benefit from it for the non programmers out there its not like you simply go into the code and change a value to "on". You have to declare seperate threads and then actively put the language around the part of the program you want to run on that thread. The KEY part...

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I did figure out that his overcautious trait isn't showing in his element details, is there a limit of 3 or something?

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He gets a really bad rap because he was a political opponent of Lincoln's. He was definetly not the greatest tactician. The penisular campaign however showed a certain amount of strategic insight as it could have worked had he had the staying power to actually keep his army there, when the confedera...

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Ok I put Mac as the commander of the AotP and for some strange reason my corp that were operating at 16 cp all went down to 15cp. Is this a bug cause I can't figure out why that 1 cp was lost. Only thing that I could even think of was that McDowell's strat rating is 1 higher that Mac's but that shou...

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Hancock was his good friend from West Point and was leading the brigade that engaged Armisted at Gettysburg. Armisted had written a note to his friend which they found on his body saying how he was wrong to have joined the confederacy. Thats the story anyways. Other accounts say he simply remarked w...

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Pocus, I have a question specifically about C. Hamilton and R. Milroy. Both are 2 stars given to you right at the start of the april 61' scenario. From my understanding neither held a rank above brigadier general insofar as a field command was concerned. Though having 2 2 star generals (with decent ...

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Douglas may have ultimatly lost the debates but he hit the nail on the head in regards to Lincoln in these remarks. Lincoln was an incredibly shrewd politician. But I think if you read enough it becomes evident that he was in fact an abolitionist, again not necessarily looking to "free the blacks" b...

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No argument from me. The war was started because of slavery. Any discussion of economics in antebellum america must include the slavery issue. I do not think the Northern populace fought against slavery though, at least not at first. They fought against treason/preserving the union, and that appear...

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what if - what if - what if if the south had "refrained" from bombing the pile of bricks/rock called fort Sumter and instead had played it politically and made sure that all the slave states would have been "turned down by the Union" instead of "reject the Union" - the impact of the war would have ...

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duplicate - see below

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C. Hamilton and R. Milroy are both 2 stars in your starting generals pool in Washington.

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Its historical considering Farragut took New Orleans in April of 62'.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Orleans_in_the_Civil_War

Maybe you can succeed in taking Vicksburg by driving up from New orleans (which Farragut tried and failed at doing).

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The Union had some severly incompetent generals. Burnsides was a complete idiot, McDowell not to far behind, McClellan was a good organizer and an incompetent field General, Hooker was a good organizer and incompetent in the field (an egotist who lost his nerve), and Meade was competent just not gre...

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1 replacement = 1 element sub-unit Having units in cities/depots can speed up the replacement process. The more damaged a unit is the more likely a replacement unit will be used up. A full replacement will also be needed to replace any lost elements. You should have no trouble moving Armies/Corps i...

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Warfare in the Napoleonic era was essentially all centered around large set piece battles. The entire reason the ACW is so interesting is that it is where the mindset changed from fighting large set piece battles to one of constant warfare. Thats ultimatly where Grant can be given credit. The Anacon...

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There is a little randomness as to whether or not a full replacement will be used. If you can see the unit icon, then that unit is not in the city. Try moving the unit icons off of the city but within the same region as the city. It should then be a little easier to make sure you drag and drop a un...

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It shows 0 in the "number of replacements requested" because you haven't requested any yet! You have to manually click on the type of replacement you want. Ahh , I thought that was telling me how many elements were low on men! I assume the replacements are per Element. I am kinda hazy on exactly ho...

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Looking to create a AACW mod, couple of questions

Looking to create a AACW mod, couple of questions

McClellan -cp?