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100/100
1650/1680
42/38

Multiple engagements at Charleston results in draw.

100/100
1830/1935
59/49
600 CSA prisoners captured/?

CSA captures Charleston

100/100
1830/1935
71/57

No action this turn.

100/100
1830/1935
83/65

No action this turn.

100/100
1830/1935
94/73

No action.

100/100
2580/2655
108/81

CSA Stand Watie attempts to take Lexington and fails. Heavy casualties both sides.
CSA detects and bombards US river elements near Little Rock.
US captures Itta Docks South of Helena.
US recaptures Charleston.

100/100
2580/2655
121/89

US captures Madison.
Stand Watie disappears, presumably swallowed up by the weather.

100/100
2580/2655
134/97

CSA forces reacting towards Madison.
USA has established depots in Jefferson City and Cass, MO North of the former Fayete Depot.

100/100
2580/2655
146/105

No action. Both sides sit at Madison (3CSA elements vs 1USA sharpshooter), remains in USA hands. CSA forces may have attempted to attack, but USA evaded and therefore region remains Union.

100/100
2580/2655
146/105

No action. Both sides sit at Madison (3CSA elements vs 1USA sharpshooter), remains in USA hands. CSA forces may have attempted to attack, but USA evaded and therefore region remains Union.

100/100
2580/2655
158/113

CSA recaptures Madison.

100/100
2580/2655
171/121

CSA recaptures Itta Docks

100/100
2580/2655
183/129

US captures Ozark Docks, McChuloch and his cowards retreated before combat.

100/100
2580/2655
196/137

USA captures Ft Gibson which spawns a bunch of Injuns (woops!). There has also been reports of Stand Watie running about in the Arkansas foothills without a command. A form of deception, or miraculous survival?

100/100
2580/2955
209/145

CSA recaptures Ft Gibson.
MS/5th Brigade ambushes Stand Watie's warriors at Fayete inflicting 300 casualties and seizing 300 prisoners.

One turn remains. Situation is this. I am +74 with +5/turn and must win by 81 to advance. Therefore, one of the strategic points must fall. We both know this. Prior to this turn CSA gunboats had been blocking the Arkansas and blizzards had prevailed. Well, Nathanial Lyons prayed to his God and the following happened....

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The river froze and both strategic points went clear. The only thing missing was a plague of locusts. So , my odds suddenly went from 1 in 1000 to maybe 1 in 50. Banzaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii.

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I'm not sure why, but even though I had it set to all out attack, Lyons retreated on day one. I had enough ammo to fight every day, and at the above rate of attrition could have won by day 15. I guess Athena cares for its troops more than me. )


100/100
222/156
4740/4485
500/?

I disbanded the HQ to add its guns to the attack which cost me 21 VPs.
Charleston was captured by CSA.

Final thoughts: I badly muffed match one as CSA by underestimating my opponent and going offensive in an attempt to break his supply. Neither of the attempts succeeded. Watie retreated before battle at Lexington, and for some reason even though I won at Rolla, the depot was in Union hands at the end of the turn with the element that had gotten mauled sitting there dug-in level 4. I suspect it was because I did a drive-by attack where my forces kept moving rather than stop at the region and the militiaI had sent to occupy the depot failed its forced march. In reflection I would have been better served in sending Watie to that depot as Indians apparently can't capture a city unless there is a proper amount of their sides military control already present so Lexington was pointless In any regards, a failure.

I then began a full retreat back towards the strategic points but lost track of the main USA force. Seeing that one of the regions he could have been in due to low detection was within range of lightly defended Ft Smith, I was forced to blow its depot. As it turned out, he was actually at Springfield. Still, this sealed my fate as I couldn't get supply wagons to Ft Smith in time to avoid starvation as they had been bumbling around up by Charleston. He moved in on my crumbling force around early January and easily steamrolled them.. then began to starve as well. Luckily I recaptured the city on the last turn or his point lead would have been insurmountable. Again in reflection, I probably would have been better served not blowing the depot at all - even if he had captured it it would have only provided half supply, and he would have eventually starved, anyways.

Knowing I was down big, as the USA I pushed hard for Ft Smith with the MO cav bde and actually captured it initially, but was told the turn was invalid due to the wrong orders being used... and then my comp died. It all kind of sucked. Attempt number two to capture a strategic objective failed when gunboats forced Lyons to abort a naval attack on Little Rock against inferior CSA forces. It was then just hope an epidemic broke on him instead of me, and try and find a way around his gunboats.

I used some deception by renaming some of my units and using cav screens to decrease my profile. My goal was to make him think I was going Little Rock and draw the GBs there. All a moot point when the river froze and I don't think he bit since he sent three elements up to capture Charleston on the final turn.

Overall, a very well done scenario by the designers once you understand how the VP system worked. I think we all were kind of feeling our way along in the first match.

Congrats to John. Good luck in the second round.

Just a final thing I noticed. I would have won if I hadn't disbanded my HQ. 66+21 = 87. John had won by 82. Not sure why it gave me so many extra VPs on the last day...

EDIT

Err apparently I wasn't penalized for disbanding it.

Thanks for the match Daxil, you had a tough challenge with the 81 pts. spread to make up. It made my strategic planning much simpler knowing that you would need to take either Ft. Smith or Little Rock to overcome the disparity. FYI, I believe Lyon retreated well, as Price was dugin and well stocked, the losses I suffered were a separate stack (when will I learn) of 2 locked militia on standard defence who took the brunt of Lyon's assault. Price was relatively fresh still with 273 combat strength and would have handed it to Lyon if he continued the assault.

One point with full hindsight, is that this scenario is very one dimensional, so a good margin obtained by either side in 1st game can really dictate the strategy of the 2nd game for the so-called leader. I think it has been mentioned by a few players in this round 1 that once they obtained a 70+ point advantage as USA or <60 as CSA, they were able to play a simplistic strategy to carry the match on overall points. My point being, in this scenario only, there may have been a good case to play both sides concurrently.

I see the PM for the round 2 host. I am confirming we play Rd2 with 1.12.

EDIT:
I owe the USA POW number...will add this tomorrow.

Daxil wrote:
100/100
222/156
4740/4485
500/?

Updated with USA prisoner count 600.

USA/CSA
100/100
222/156
4740/4485
500/600

I'm a bit confused by the stats, gentlemen. As listed, it appears that the USA has won... and yet, Daxil has been defeated while playing as the USA.

I've used the stats as listed below to calculate the ratings, except for swapping the VP values between USA and CSA. (In other words, I've swapped the values in red from how they appear, below.)

USA/CSA
100/100
222/156
4740/4485
500/600

I won as USA, but johnnycai had more VPs when he played as USA in the first match. The stats he posted are correct I think.