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Mickey3D

Hello, welcome on the forum. :wavey: 1a) No, the city size changes nothing. 1b) Same as 1a. Use Plunder against regions not under your control (i.e. send a cavalry party on an ennemy controled town and play the RGD). 2) Don't know. Gray Fox should be able to tell you more on this. 3) The more ships ...

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Captain_Orso wrote:Found it!

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I'm playing the April full campaign with 1.05 RC9 installed and run the Late October turn. Looking at the messages at the beginning of next turn (early November) I can see :

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But looking at the Arkansas :

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Mickey3D

1) Post a message here to find an opponent - Prefix the name of your message with [CW2] - List your preferences if any (game settings, home rules, hosting, side, ...) 2) Opponents interested should reply by PM (Private Message) - Communicate your email when replying to the PM (avoid giving your emai...

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Hi Rumbo,

Welcome on the forum.

To answer your question, have a look at the pdf document attached to this post.

The document list the changes of statistics and special abilities (E.g., look for Hooker, Sherman, Longstreet or Jackson).

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I think we all praise the qualities of R.E. Lee. However he saw the Malvern Hill slaughter and the Fredericksburg disaster. Does it prevent him from launching the Pickett's charge ? In the Gettysburg campaign, there was a clear failure of the Confederate chain of command. Still Lee was unable to do ...

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I agree with you : we have a knowledge that was learned the hard way by people of that time and a near perfect control and knowledge of our troops. All wargames are facing the same dilemna : give to the players historical limits and at the same time avoid too "artificial" rules. Note that it could b...

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Units have a cost in Command Points (CP) you can see by hovering above the unit : [ATTACH]33193[/ATTACH] Generals provide CP based on their level : 1 star: 4 CP 2 stars: 8 CP 3 stars: 12 CP But the maximum number of CP provided by leaders in a stack is 16 (this limit can be increased by special unit...

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Gray Fox wrote:In combat, the artillery Division hardly ever gets targeted, because the game mechanic zeroes in on big brigades.

With latest RC there is a counterbattery fire feature. I wonder what's the effect on an artillery Division ?

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You say troops can't MTSG from Alexandria to D.C., why is that? Is it because of the river between them? Fixed troops in Alexandria (i.e. the automatic garrison received through event) can't MTSG. Other troops have their chance to MTSG reduced by the Potomac river (-10% per day of travel). Note tha...

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Very good list

Note that four naval elements have a 90% chance to block movement and you can't get higher than this value even by adding more ships.

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marquo wrote:"To be promoted, a leader must be out of a stack and becomes immobile for a while."

Is this true??

If your promotable officer is not the leader of his stack, you must extract him from the stack or the promote order will not work.

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My question reframed is, do the game combat tables allow for the possibility of the CSA attacking at 1-1 or less and winning? The value of your stack is dependent on your leader in three ways : - Frontage : as explained by GF, a good leader as Lee will allow you to deploy more troops than a bad one...

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DrPostman wrote:I see CWII as the computerized version of Victory Games Civil War, a brilliantly
designed board game.

+1

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Rod Smart wrote:to represent the election, the loss threshold increases

If after the increase you lose due to a NM "sudden death" then you can consider Lincoln has lost the election and the democrats sued for peace.

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DrPostman wrote:just land there in Assault posture

In a PBEM, ensure your move is not predictable and the CSA won't bring a force in defense when you'll attack : I have seen landing ending in a blood bath and the assaillant utterly wipped out.

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With 18 Confederate Ocean Transport units I get $12 and 54 WSU for 3.5 units of trade per transport unit. Note that the split between $ and WSU is dependent on your current resource status (e.g. if you are missing $, you will receive more money from the transports) Edit : sorry, I have not read the...

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Talk about a huge penalty. A general dropped from 5-3-3 rating to a 3-1-2 rating when Division command was enabled. Is that because he is only 1-star and should not be a Division commander? Does the same happen to 2-star generals? The turn a general is promoted he suffers from a penalty to his stat...

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[...]Depots are built using RGD's only, which have a fixed cost in money and perhaps 1 CC. These RGD's should be plentiful and regenerate each turn[...]

I'm afraid you would end up with too many depots on the map and this would make very difficult to cut supply path of your opponent.

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Hi Barksdale, I have not played often the Union with ACW2 but if you are still missing an opponent, I'm interested. Settings are ok for me. Personally I tried to stick to the following three rules : - Do not use "teleportation" (including leaders). - Do not build a corps and send it intentionally ou...

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bommerrang wrote:Interesting...when I save it my PC insist on saving as a .pnp file. Winzip7, etc. so not recognize the file type.

Either change the file extension at save time or rename it to *.rar once on your hard drive.

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CW2 is not following the NATO codification in the force list screen (e.g. CW2 is not going to the company/battalion level), it is just an approximation of the stack size. As far as I can remember (please double check, I'm not in front of the game) : XXXXX = Corps or Army stack. XXX = Stack containin...

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bommerrang wrote:What program does this run under? I cannot open it.

*.rar is a compressed file. You must find a program to uncompress it, e.g. : 7zip, Winzip, WinRAR, ...

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Huge work, indeed

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In order to have a more or less "perfect" division I mix brigades coming from several States. E.g. from Virginia, North and South Carolina or even Georgia for a division to be used on the eastern theatre; from Tennessee, Missouri and sometimes Louisianna or Alabama for a division used on the Kentuck...

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Attached below is an old document listing officers and their stats at each level. It is related to the first version of AACW but I think it is still pretty accurate. [ATTACH]32778[/ATTACH] You can also look in your "CW2\GameData\Models" directory for the "*.mdl" files with the name of the leader you...

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Captain_Orso wrote:BTW, somebody--I'm not sure who ATM--created a small mod to reduce this calculation to once per turn. I's simply a parameter change in one of the .opt files.

You can find it in the CW2 modding forum.

Ace's mod is here.

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tripax wrote:Regarding skibear's point about escaping by sea, Units trapped in a region because they have too low power and MC should not be able to use riverine travel to escape a region.

+1

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Thanks a lot for the details you bring. This is hardly a ringing endorsement of peace-at-all costs. This is not an endorsement but clearly the peace without Union was no more a taboo subject for a presidential platform. We will never know for sure, but my two cents are that you would need strong arg...

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For this reason the South would have had to win a complete victory over the North. I don't think a complete victory was needed by the South : war weariness in the North was sufficient and nearly happened in 1864 when the democrats proposed McClellan as opponent to Lincoln for the presidential race....

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