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Hi!
I´m just curious… and i´m sure some of the ACW buffs around here will be able to answer my question so, just for fun… here it goes.
Looking at the financial (taxes, bonds, printing money), manpower (calling volunteers, partial or total conscription) loyalty (martial law, suspension of habeas corpus) decisions you can take on the game… what will be the ones someone playing the USA or CSA should take to do the same (or as close as possible) that his historical counterparts (Lincoln and Davis) did??
Did Davis pay for volunteers? did Lincoln institute military law somewhere? Did the north have conscription (I know the south did later in war)? When? How much?

Please, enlighten me!

And related to these questions… I remember reading that some people was playing with house rules about not taking some decisions till some date in order to simulate better the real war.
I will appreciate some basic guidelines on what will be some appropriate house rules of this kind for both sides to get a campaign as historical as possible.

Thanks in advance and Regards!

Wiki has some info on that for us non ACW buffs, look at the War plan on the Confederate site link. The Union one is at the start.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_States_Army

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Army

arsan wrote:Hi!
I´m just curious… and i´m sure some of the ACW buffs around here will be able to answer my question so, just for fun… here it goes.
Looking at the financial (taxes, bonds, printing money), manpower (calling volunteers, partial or total conscription) loyalty (martial law, suspension of habeas corpus) decisions you can take on the game… what will be the ones someone playing the USA or CSA should take to do the same (or as close as possible) that his historical counterparts (Lincoln and Davis) did??
Did Davis pay for volunteers? did Lincoln institute military law somewhere? Did the north have conscription (I know the south did later in war)? When? How much?

Please, enlighten me!

And related to these questions… I remember reading that some people was playing with house rules about not taking some decisions till some date in order to simulate better the real war.
I will appreciate some basic guidelines on what will be some appropriate house rules of this kind for both sides to get a campaign as historical as possible.

Thanks in advance and Regards!

I'm pretty sure the Union had conscription later on, New York draft riots anyone?

arsan wrote:Did Davis pay for volunteers? did Lincoln institute military law somewhere? Did the north have conscription (I know the south did later in war)?

YES on all three accounts. Bounties for voluntary enlistments were paid by both sides, encouraging the despicable practice of "bounty jumping" (enlisting, getting the bounty, running away, enlisting again under a different name, repeat ad lib). Lincoln suspended habeas corpus in several states during the war, most notably Md. And yes, the North had conscription from 1863 (the South from 1862).