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TheDoctorKing

I noticed some discussion earlier in this thread about a "draft mod" that would prevent either side from beginning conscription in 1861. I think this is a fine idea. Has this been incorporated in the v 1.10c of your mod? Or do I need to separately d/l the "draft mod.rar" file farther up? Thanks for ...

TheDoctorKing

Playing as the Union, I'm noticing that the Confederate armies are _humongous_. I just fought a battle in August 1862 near Harper's Ferry where 115000 Rebs kicked butt on my 75000 Yankees. And they had another army down by Fredericksburg (don't know how big it is but intel reports that it has a stre...

TheDoctorKing

If one unit has built fortifications in a region, and then a friendly unit moves into the area, can they take over or jointly occupy the field forts? Or do they have to start over again digging their own trenches? Is the answer to this any different if they arrive _during_ the battle through "marchi...

TheDoctorKing

When I try to change it to my own IP address, the fields won't take the proper number of digits. The first field, the one that is 71, can't have 3 digits. IP addresses on my LAN are in the format 192.168.x.xxx

TheDoctorKing

I'm trying to start up ARES on my home machine to run AACW over a LAN. In the space on the server startup screen for IP address it has an unusual IP address (71.182.71.177). When I try to change that to the actual IP address of my computer (192.168.1.100) I can't type three digits in the first field...

TheDoctorKing

I like the idea of making the leader's abilities unknown to the player. You should have to judge from experience how lousy they are. At least they should be unknown until you send them into battle for the first time. I'm thinking of the old Civil War boardgame, I think it was by Victory Games, where...

TheDoctorKing

Thanks, Pocus, that's what I needed. I'll try it out this weekend and if I have any questions I'll be sure to get back to you.

You should just include this with the game when you sell it. Or is it not quite ready to go?

TheDoctorKing

So I found ARES, a freeware p2p file sharing program. The question is, how do you use it to set up a "connected mode" between two computers on a LAN. That is what I want to do -- have one player sit down at one computer, another at a second computer on the same LAN, and both give their orders at the...

TheDoctorKing

Read The Fine Manual. Because we have such an excellent bunch of writers around here.

Fnord.

TheDoctorKing

Training officers should be able to take militia and run them all the way up to trained troops. It's silly to have them only able to affect half the process. What's the point? What are we simulating here?

TheDoctorKing

Putting a gunboat in every river area works too, especially if you mod the number required down to one. But you have to keep rotating them. It's a pain in the ass, no doubt. I think the answer is to change the AI to make it less common. The Confederacy sent raiders into Union territory (that is, sta...

TheDoctorKing

Does a Union replacement only provide 1/2 the strength points of a Confederate? Or do they cost twice as much?

Maybe it would be smart for the Union to just not buy any replacments and just pound out new units?

TheDoctorKing

Is it available for download?

I don't need matchmaking, my opponents are in the same house with me for the most part...

TheDoctorKing

This is sort of a historically-based question: is or should there be any political cost to using manpower for replacements instead of for raising new units? The reason I asked is that historically, the Union mostly refrained from replacing losses in existing units, preferring to raise new regiments,...

TheDoctorKing

So how do training officers work? I've got Halleck sitting in Cairo with a ton of militia regiments under his command and I'm not noticing that any of them are turning into regulars. Is there some limit to the number you can train? Or do they have to do something -- like get into a fight?

TheDoctorKing

I have to admit I have no idea of how difficult this would be but it sure would be pleasant to be able to have a network game, both players working on their turns at the same time, then activate and have the execution visible to both players from their own perspective. I play ftf about half the time...

TheDoctorKing

In the United States, anything produced before the first Mickey Mouse movie (the law states a particular number of years but whenever Mickey is in danger of going into the public domain they increase the number of years) is protected. The protection extends to a particular production of a work of ar...

TheDoctorKing

I'm still concerned about the other issue I raised that nobody seems to be addressing -- the way the Southern AI invades the North at the drop of a hat. Historically, the Confederacy didn't want to conquer the North and preferred to stand on the defensive most of the time. The AI should refrain from...

TheDoctorKing

Historically, the Confederacy did invade the southwest. They were defeated in a battle in New Mexico but had plans to go on to southern California. The issue of Confederate invasions of Oregon and such is a problem with the AI, not the map. The Confederates were waging an essentially defensive strug...

TheDoctorKing

In v 1.10a it seems that California and the Southwest are not connected. You have to go by way of Rockies and it takes forever. I don't think this is correct. The US had plans before the Civil War to build a rail line across Arizona and New Mexico, though the actual first line was built through Utah...

TheDoctorKing

Thanks, Rafiki, I'll make sure they are inside the city. What is the actual effect? Does it add some particular amount of companies a turn? Or a random amount per turn? Or is it just every now and then? I'm sort of wondering what the comparative value is of putting Halleck in Chicago versus having h...

TheDoctorKing

Unfortunately it just would not happen in the politically correct asylums we now call schools today. When I was raised we used to have a games night every week at my primary school - these things just dont happen anymore. I have used PC games in classes. I used Paradox's Europa Universalis in a Wes...

TheDoctorKing

I taught American Civil War at the college level last year and I used McPherson as my text. It is probably the best one-volume treatment of the whole war and its context. It is supposed to cover the whole period 1840-1865 though, not just 1861-1865. It is part of a multi-volume history of the United...

TheDoctorKing

What is the effect of leaders with the Recruiting Officer characteristic? I have been putting all those leaders that I get in the early game (Banks, Halleck, maybe another one?) in big cities but when I roll over those cities on the map the little display at the top that shows how many resources I'm...

TheDoctorKing

Thanks for the advice. I'll try the new beta patch, I've been playing so far with v 1.09e. As to the New Orleans Native Guards: Race is important in this case -- Louisiana had a somewhat more liberal attitude towards free blacks than the rest of the south, as evidenced by the fact that they did allo...

TheDoctorKing

I have just begun playing this game but it seems to me that there are too many sieges. The default action for a force that is attacked in a region and is unable to defend it in an open field battle should be to run away to an adjacent area, not to retreat inside an unfortified town and dig in. The e...

TheDoctorKing

This would be a very nice feature to have and one that would save a good deal of time. I currently play with a friend hotseat (saving and quitting each time, then reloading with the other save game) but it would mean things would work twice as fast if we could both be working on our orders on differ...

TheDoctorKing

Just wondering. You play fast if so.

TheDoctorKing

Je viens d’instaurer le demo, et j'ai joué le grand scenario hier nuit. J'ai l'impression que le CSA AI est énormément trop agressif. Le CSA a envahi le nord quatre fois avec des forces importantes, ainsi que quelques unités de cavalerie. L'armée de Virginie a occupé Baltimore :tournepas et j'ai pu ...

TheDoctorKing

In America the branch of the CoE is called the Episcopal Church. It was the religion of the majority of ruling-class Virginians at the time, so he wouldn't have had to hide it. Today, the Episcopal Church in the south is very low church and many are associated with the Church of Nigeria (!) rather t...

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Draft mod

Huge Confederate armies -- the draft?

Moving into field fortifications

But I can't

IP Addresses

Good idea!

Exactly what I was looking for!

More information please

Rtfm

I'm with you

Boats -- really needs an AI fix

How does that work?

Where do I find ARES?

Replacements

Training Officer

Has anybody mentioned network games?

Copyright

Confederate invasions

Western operations

California - Southwest connection?

Thanks

Gaming in schools

Catton and McPherson

Recruiter leaders

I will try the new patch

Too many sieges

Can it be added?

Did you actually manage to complete a game each time?

AI trés aggresif dans le scenario Demo

Lee's Religion