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Colonel Dreux

The thing being ignored here is that one individual cannot sum up an entire force or campaign. Was A.S. Jonston good or bad is technically irrelevant if you look at situation X or situation Y, given that he was not in a room alone without any outside influence or suggestions to ineterfere. For exam...

Colonel Dreux

Personally I think if anything ASJ is overrated in the game. Certainly he shouldn't be better than he presently is. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can enlighten me as to what his claim to military greatness should be based on, other than Jeff Davis' good opinion ("If Johnston is not a general, we...

Colonel Dreux

I have had several CTDs in a solo game ... they seem to appear beginning in 1863, or so, as the AI has more to keep track of. Game crashes during turn resolution, but reloading the game is all it takes to proceed. Everything goes fine again until ... ??? :) Unfortunately, I have no saves, as that g...

Colonel Dreux

I was specifically responding to Dreux's focus on 1864 and Grant. I'm not arguing that there weren't some bloody battles involving the guy, but the two that weren't in 1864 were Shiloh (where he was defending) and and Fort Donelson (which makes the top 10 list because of all the CSA casualties and ...

Colonel Dreux

Lincoln wanted a general that understood the "math", that being that the south absolutely could NOT keep up with a casualty exchange rate of 2 to 1. Also, those same men that you refer to as being murdered, (the Army of the Potomac) cheered when they realized that Grant was continuing to take the f...

Colonel Dreux

Of course, but it's similar to Montgomery (UK) during WW2. He was loved by his British troops because they knew he wouldn't sacrifcie them. The same was true of Union troops under McClellan - they knew he valued them too much so of course they loved him. But that isn't always the best approach to w...

Colonel Dreux

I think we all agree that an AI, in a complex strategy game, will never be a tough challenge, once you have mastered the game rules (unless the initial setup is assymetric, which is the case at ACW if you take the South against an Union AI)... but... don't just (please) scrap easily the thousands o...

Colonel Dreux

From what I've read, which relies heavily on Shelby Foote, I'd tend to place ASJ in the same category as John Reynolds, the union general killed on the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. Highly regarded by their peers and their men, cool under fire, strategically smart and tactically sound, bot...

Colonel Dreux

Yes--nowhere closer than on 17 September 1862. Even after he had completely mismanaged the battle by sending in his corps piecemeal, it still needed just one word from him to commit Porter and destroy the ANV for good. But he was taking council from his fears, and hence he simply didn't have what a...

Colonel Dreux

bigus, The Scens files when I reinstalled the game and patched in 1.15 are in notepad no .xls by default. Not sure if this is because I did this before or it comes this way, but I can't upload any Scen file into Excel that properly looks like your Tutorial file. Your tutorial file opens fine, but no...

Colonel Dreux

I use Open Office (it is a MS office clone). Its a free download. Try this link for a tutorial on scenario creation. If you have any questions about the tutorial maybe post them in the scenario depot thread. It might come in handy for others later. Open Office free: http://download.openoffice.org/ ...

Colonel Dreux

bigus, One other question, if it's okay. What application are you opening the file in? Mine opens in notepad as a default. Yours looks like a microsoft office application. edit: Looks like excel but how do you get the order and setup, line by line, the way you do? I've not done this before. I've onl...

Colonel Dreux

Thanks bigus!.. will experiment and see if I can get it done.

Colonel Dreux

Is this only a database mod or is more work required to see that D.C. and Cairo have forts at the beginning of the April '61 scenarios? I do this because the AI will never construct forts in these locals once the game gets under way (at least that is my experience).

Thanks for any help.

Colonel Dreux

Thanks Pocus! Cheers!

Colonel Dreux

Exactly! :thumbsup: For what i know, the game's "rule of thumb" is to only represent as individual leaders divisional commanders and up. There are a few flavor exceptions (Mosby, Quantrill...) Shelby was only a brigade commander for what i know. Marmaduke does not appear until 63 because up to then...

Colonel Dreux

First off I want to say I love the game. I am from arkansas and I study the Civil War in the trans-Miss district. I was just wanting to know in future games could you add a little more importance to leaders like Jo Shelby who many claim was one of if not the best calvary officer on either side and ...

Colonel Dreux

tagwyn wrote:Col D: Are you a trained French officer with experience in Vietnam? t

No.

Colonel Dreux

I've not played PBEM, but against the AI I only raise taxes and issue T-Bonds. It's possible to play the whole game and win without printing money. However, depending on how the game progresses you many want to print money at an opportune time. It's up to you. Furthermore, I don't start building ind...

Colonel Dreux

This morning's edition of the Cincinnati Enquirer carries a story that Tennessee wants its regimental battle flags back, ones captured by Ohio troops. http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20091002/NEWS01/910030323/ Is this a good idea? Bad idea. I think either Mississippi or Sou...

Colonel Dreux

Being that the current map basically splits the the US part of North American continent about right down the middle, there is a huge part of the present USA which is represented by the 5 western off-board boxes. Although it is highly unlikely that anybody would really ever use them, it would be int...

Colonel Dreux

Thanks Colonel, wow, that was one of the most interesting read I've had in a while, that about Bagdad. The reference to invading Colorado though 'As one Texan put it, "If it had not been for those devils from Pike's Peak, this country would have been ours."' I believe can't be taken as an indicatio...

Colonel Dreux

Surely this is not personal either... :non: Why don't you both resolve your problems in private instead of making the rest of the forum your involuntary spectators?? Talk about childish... :bonk: These forums are for talking about AGEOD games. This post is about discussing improvements for a future...

Colonel Dreux

Secondary Reference: Lifeline of the Confederacy: Blockade Running During the Civil War http://books.google.com/books?id=_kq7diciSsQC&pg=PA86&lpg=PA86&dq=mexico+confederate+trade&source=bl&ots=m5lJCsAcpn&sig=-iipfi40-QF7IZ-gAei87bjOB3M&hl=en&ei=GdPESsC2IpWN8AbI9YA0&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resn...

Colonel Dreux

arsan wrote:I agree 100%.
But still i fail to see how reviving a discussion already finished and settled by both parts two weeks ago offers anything positive to the community.

Cause Gray's character is still the same. And it's not cool.

Colonel Dreux

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Colonel Dreux

C'mon guys! :( Was really needed to bring back from the dead like this a two weeks old post ?? :confused: Are you bored too?? trying to pick fights or start flame wars?? :bonk: Sorry, but i don't think your post offer anything positive to the discussion at hand, really. I think you could also take ...

Colonel Dreux

I think that the historical issue with Mexico not trading with the CSA is obvious if you know the relationship Mexico had with the USA before the Civil War broke out, especially with the southern states. Maybe you could have an option in which the CSA return Texas, California and rest of the land i...

Colonel Dreux

Now my $.02 I'm not offended, just incredibly bored with the occasional newbie that thinks he can garner a better response to his questions about the game by posing them in such ways as to ridicule AGEod's game design. You're not the first to employ this approach nor will you be the last but as for...

Colonel Dreux

McClellan had two major flaws that undermined an otherwise above average leader. First, he fought ghost armies. This crippled his ability to go on the offensive and deliver the kind of killing blow the AoP was capable of in 1862. They had the numbers in Virginia to take Richmond. They had more than...

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