I owe a lot of thanks to the folks who help out on this forum and for the other players who participate
because without you I would have never understood this game. The manual wasn't a lot of help and
the tutorial didn't explain what I wanted. I was put off by the lack of any tactical element but then
I've always been more of a strategy gamer and got used to the combat resolution rather quickly. Heck,
I was put off by the lack of hexes until I understood how important regions are and how they work in
the game, especially when it comes to handling naval elements. Yea, the naval can be improved, but
I've never seen a game handle it better than this one. BTW, I used to play Victory Games The Civil War
game and loved it a lot. I didn't think there would ever be a better way of handling the Civil War in a
game until this came along, and it has a lot of similar elements that the VG game had. If anyone is
interested BoardGameGeek has info about it:
http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/2081/the-civil-war