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by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:55 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Trouble getting 2 player game started
Replies: 23
Views: 13068

No stress, let's hope we have another member of the CW2 Community. Plus you better not sack D.C. :P if you do that I will sneak into the game file an edit down Lee and Jackson to 1-0-0 :P You beat me by a couple minutes. It took me forever to find a tilde in word, copy it over, and then finish the r...
by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:28 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Preventing MTSG
Replies: 4
Views: 2282

Preventing MTSG

Sometimes you want a Corp beneath an Army but you do not want it to MTSG. How do you stop it from MTSGing, is only changing the posture to Green able to do this? I have never tried to put a front line Corp on Green next to supportive Corps. Though I think someone here may have? Would locking the Cor...
by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 27, 2015 5:17 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Trouble getting 2 player game started
Replies: 23
Views: 13068

In my first PBEM game me and my opponent took at least a turn or two this figure this... get rid of the - and replace it with the ~ so that the .ord file matches precisely what the game can read. It won't read it due to that tiny hard to see little slash... funny I know but it the same one above the...
by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:10 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Trouble getting 2 player game started
Replies: 23
Views: 13068

[ATTACH]34284[/ATTACH] Explaining can easily get mixed up. This is the directory Steam puts my files in a PBEM game I am in right now. It's true you have to save your moves at the end of the turn, then only the hosting player should process the turn. Though the turns won't process if the file names ...
by BattleVonWar
Sun Jul 26, 2015 11:11 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Trouble getting 2 player game started
Replies: 23
Views: 13068

Dear Wheat, I sometimes have time at night between 11 and 2am USA Eastern. If you want to Skype and let me watch precisely what you're doing by sharing screen I might help. I have found with the Steam version the directory defaults to a different location for my save files when I copied over 1.6 (I ...
by BattleVonWar
Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:14 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: How to PBEM 101
Replies: 5
Views: 3437

Bumping this and including all the helpful threads, please include any you have used to help you learn PBEM CW2.
by BattleVonWar
Fri Jul 24, 2015 3:12 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Does Anaconda on the Mississippi effect the CSA?
Replies: 37
Views: 13098

tripax, if nothing else New Orleans was previously to NYC the largest Port in the Americas and correct me if I am wrong but reviewing ledgers on populations, was the most populace CSA city at the onset of war. The loss of that was early and easily done. In my opinion costing the CSA. Sure men can st...
by BattleVonWar
Fri Jul 24, 2015 2:57 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Trouble getting 2 player game started
Replies: 23
Views: 13068

http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?39291-Playing-against-someone& is a thread on how to PBEM vs a human opponent. http://www.ageod-forum.com/showthread.php?39507-How-to-PBEM-101 is a tutorial I put up, it's really unfinished and will be redone when I feel up to it. Basically for a new player...
by BattleVonWar
Thu Jul 23, 2015 5:20 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Does Anaconda on the Mississippi effect the CSA?
Replies: 37
Views: 13098

Interesting RebelYell, thank you for that piece! I think that there is no incentive for the Union in game to perform Anaconda. Should there be a NM loss for the CSA or boost to the Union. New Orleans/Memphis are two of the primary objectives along the line which are pretty nifty to take but so very ...
by BattleVonWar
Thu Jul 23, 2015 1:49 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Division and corp creation quesiton
Replies: 9
Views: 5002

Part of the game that has had me very upset over the early game, is the attacked in detail you mention. Meaning in other words... if you have 5 Generals in independent stacks in the same region and get attacked. You can initiate 5 single combats. In 15 days this is an amazing concept to wrap your he...
by BattleVonWar
Thu Jul 23, 2015 12:26 am
Forum: CW2 AARs
Topic: YouTube AAR - charlesonmission (Union) versus Kentuckian (CSA)
Replies: 99
Views: 52824

It will be a close match, 1865! The Union has her job cut out for her. I wonder if the Timberclads the CSA stole she didn't riverine Forest out of the action? I am not too sure if that is possible but it seems like it might be. So it is now the Army of the Popetomac.... Seems like you managed to do ...
by BattleVonWar
Tue Jul 21, 2015 7:46 pm
Forum: ACW History Club / Histoire de la Guerre de Sécession
Topic: An Alternate Take on the ACW--a Canuck's Point of View
Replies: 25
Views: 10835

Extremely informative. Agreed.. Something different from the dogmatic point of view of some the history books and textbooks I've had over the years. That or TV series... I feel genuinely enlightened in some respects!



Straight Arrow wrote:Interesting piece gentlemen; it expanded my mind.
by BattleVonWar
Tue Jul 21, 2015 2:03 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: The price of Freedom
Replies: 18
Views: 7815

Very interesting perspective from both Panzer and Orso. The burying of hatred and the enlightenment of people. People tell me so much good comes from war. Like inventions that wouldn't otherwise be there. I say... What if everyone came together and innovated. Plus all the great minds that die in it....
by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 20, 2015 8:25 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: The price of Freedom
Replies: 18
Views: 7815

Capt. Orso, my point was that slavery wasn't abolished in America even after a war. As there are people's civil rights and freedoms being trampled on today. In this country, perhaps not with the same Mask as Antebellum Slavery. Modern Slavery doesn't wear the same Mask. When a Chinese girl is in jai...
by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 20, 2015 7:08 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: How useful is the light artillery?
Replies: 29
Views: 12603

Rebel, interesting but it would seem that loose cannon would be a pretty bad idea most of the time if you can assign them into a corp/army you save Command Points. I didn't know the 12s were good on defense, I usually stack bronze 12s in my backup Army/Corps..silver in my frontline Army/Corp. Of cou...
by BattleVonWar
Mon Jul 20, 2015 5:11 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: The price of Freedom
Replies: 18
Views: 7815

The Civil War is one of the many Wars that was a bloody hell that we as a people should not have needed. I think the war aims was the freeing of the slave but ultimately if you read up that was not really accomplished. Slavery is alive and well today right under your nose when you enter a Brothel, s...
by BattleVonWar
Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:39 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: How useful is the light artillery?
Replies: 29
Views: 12603

Hmm, you seem a little confidant in what artillery does and what is useful and useless. Ranges found in the unit information panel tell you what precisely? How do you correlate that in battle, terrain, weather, fortifications, etc... 20 pounders take more cohesion away, help hit well dug in troops I...
by BattleVonWar
Sun Jul 19, 2015 4:02 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: How useful is the light artillery?
Replies: 29
Views: 12603

The issue I feel with CW2 for instance in building a Division at least, you don't know what the range and distances are on the guns available in the force pool. 6/10/12/20/Gatling/Heavy(mostly antishipping) plus silver/bronze... Though the prevailing theory seems to be silver is better.. As many as ...
by BattleVonWar
Wed Jul 15, 2015 1:30 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Fort Sumter terrain question
Replies: 16
Views: 7446

Fortifications if guarded by troops/cannon should be very strong. Require endless bombardment and then fall to surrender... Assaulting a Fort should be deadly on you. Think if you will the German Army with a frontal assault on the Maginot in '40. Now after a short while you starve them out and that'...
by BattleVonWar
Sun Jul 12, 2015 4:35 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: The CSA Navy
Replies: 12
Views: 5400

Captain Orso, the concept of where supply would come from just totally escaped me. Including along the New England coast where I am certain there is little to live off. California would be very juicy and I didn't even guess this to be possible. Probably easier to invade overland and supply through t...
by BattleVonWar
Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:36 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: The CSA Navy
Replies: 12
Views: 5400

The CSA Navy

My very last game for the first time ever I used The Confederate Navy to actually do something. I sent Brigs to the coast of New Jersey and New York to spy on Union shipping and troop deployment. I had intentions of doing a great deal more perhaps sailing up to Maine and attacking the Union(which wi...
by BattleVonWar
Sat Jul 11, 2015 10:32 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Union shipping
Replies: 8
Views: 3681

Some never intercept my CSA raiders, some send them home with so many hits(lost 4 or 5 once) It's really really annoying. I would shelf brigs as a tool of war if a person actively pursues a campaign of hunting them. It's much like the U-boat wars of WW1/WW2..quickly becomes counterproductive. But th...
by BattleVonWar
Sat Jul 11, 2015 2:10 pm
Forum: CW2 AARs
Topic: YouTube AAR - charlesonmission (Union) versus Kentuckian (CSA)
Replies: 99
Views: 52824

I love that Bowling Green sneak defense the CSA can pull off. You don't see them coming. Of course if Longstreet is missing from anywhere else, you must assume that is a prime region. All those delicious Kentucky Brigades you can put in arms along with 20 Pound Cannons. I am glad you recruited some ...
by BattleVonWar
Fri Jul 10, 2015 7:55 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Apple removes games with Confederate battle flag from iTunes
Replies: 66
Views: 24155

I was quite fond of the Rebel Flag on The General Lee as a boy. In games it certainly gives flavor to an antique war. Strange people place so much power and value on a Flag. Enslavement began long before there was a Rebel Flag in the Americas. If people feel comfort by putting emphasis on this, let ...
by BattleVonWar
Sun Jul 05, 2015 10:21 am
Forum: CW2 AARs
Topic: YouTube AAR - charlesonmission (Union) versus Kentuckian (CSA)
Replies: 99
Views: 52824

Really you should never disband units. I think the exception may be there but rare. Most of the time you can get them to safety or just let them disband themselves when they starve? Correct me if I am wrong but I see no reason to. Plus Heavy Artillery like Coastal Guns is like carrying a giant sea a...
by BattleVonWar
Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:28 pm
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Why not?
Replies: 46
Views: 14513

Havi, that's just fine, but I would prefer the resources for the South rather than the Foreign Entry. Maybe AI giving over control of the British and French Navy or forcing a lift of the blockade. Better yet how about the South offer up chunks of Texas and the SouthWest at a huge NM Penalty for Mexi...
by BattleVonWar
Thu Jul 02, 2015 6:07 am
Forum: CW2 AARs
Topic: Buckeye vs Battle
Replies: 9
Views: 8432

Yeah, Cardinal Ape definitely has a firmer understanding of all the game mechanics. I have been learning with the more advanced settings that things like Veteran Activation will change the game also, as well as historical attrition. The latter is almost surreal in that in two other games I am in I h...
by BattleVonWar
Thu Jul 02, 2015 3:11 am
Forum: Civil War II
Topic: Why not?
Replies: 46
Views: 14513

Invasions should both cause differences in Value. Though loyalty perhaps. Invading a Northern State could have consequences for the South. Has little consequences for either side now. The problem is more a problem of what value is there in doing anything other than focusing in on the major objective...
by BattleVonWar
Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:52 pm
Forum: CW2 AARs
Topic: Buckeye vs Battle
Replies: 9
Views: 8432

I definitely should have respected your Naval Strength and Flanking ability in two separate games I had witnessed what you can do. I think I envisioned a more fixed front in Kentucky. That you would rail in a corp or two and for a few turns you seemed to follow this by rebuilding in Cairo and bolste...
by BattleVonWar
Wed Jul 01, 2015 11:41 pm
Forum: CW2 AARs
Topic: Kentuckian vs. Charlesonmission-CSA POV
Replies: 6
Views: 7085

You seemed to have a very formidable force early in this game. You also seemed to not fear any of Charles' unit placements. I rarely see someone leave Maryland/NV so lightly defended. Also though I rarely see a CSA put so many strong forces down so early. Also you seemed to do extremely well will mo...

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