DarthMath wrote:- in my game, despite the fact I had reorganized my British Army in London, I was unable to unload my two Corps and my Army HQ separately. The engine doesn't want. So I had to unload everybody in only one stack, and so a 35% penalty.
Heldenkaiser wrote:I may be wrong about this, but I seem to recall that you CAN unload into separate stacks and even reform corps and armies on the fly while unloading from a single fleet. I am fairly certain I've done that when I landed three corps and an army HQ at New Orleans in my current game. I hope I am not just fantasizing, but I seem to recall
- you select the units and leaders of the corps from the embarked stack;
- drag them onto the target region on land;
- that makes them a separate stack;
- now you can reform the corps on the leader.
They land as a fully formed corps alright.
But as I said, I did this only once, and that was half a year ago, so I may just be dead wrong.
Heldenkaiser wrote:Well, I suppose in the end you could always put them on separate fleets in the first place ...
DarthMath wrote:- their Corps commander could only be associated with the BEF Army HQ, not a CSA HQ (...)
- it's very difficult to defend Canada. In the game, I've lost all of my canadian troops ( about 30.000 men ) and nothing to do about that.
Banks6060 wrote:I would assume...for reasons of supply and the difficulties associated with amphibious landings in enemy controlled territory...Landing the BEF anywhere north of Virginia would be a potentially bad idea. But I could be wrong.
I've not once had Foreign Intervention fire... . It's badly needed in my current struggle with Soundoff that's for sure.
Gray_Lensman wrote:Ouch... So the additional UK units are best utilized by landing in the south and therefore drawing suppplies off the CSA supply net in the normal manner?
Gray_Lensman wrote:Ouch... So the additional UK units are best utilized by landing in the south and therefore drawing suppplies off the CSA supply net in the normal manner?
Pocus wrote:Yes for now I would say that. Alternatively you can declare that the shipping box is a naval box for CSA when UK enters war, so they will be able to use Naval Supply as the US. (not that hard coded as you see ).
Jim-NC wrote:In regards to your game against Soundoff, I don't think the Europeans will ever move in to help you (not with the terrible rolls you have gotten on your embargos).
Pocus wrote:That's simple Michael: just open a campaign and find:
SetNavalPool (for the US)
do the same for the CSA and they will be able to resupply on the coast, provided they have ships in the OMB.
husky1943 wrote:Question/observation: Shouldn't it be harder for the Southern player to use foreign forces to basically attack the North? I mean, historically, the South was "defending" itself from Northern Aggression. It would seem contradictory to me then for the South to ask those forces to do anything outside of "defend" the South.
phantomfeather wrote:I've played about 30 games against the AI; about half with CSA. With later games I've made it more difficult to trigger the Intervention because it seemed to open a can of worms, i.e., now I had to protect an area far, far away. I learned this the hard way because I sent a lot of the British forces into Southern areas. After that experience I decided to send more British forces into Canada, in fact, I sent most.
Then, for some reason, most of those forces ran out of groceries. Possibly a blockade? Didn't research it at the time.
Next time I play the South I'm thinking about sending a majority of the forces into the South again. I did experience, one time, a complete domination of the Union after Foreign Intervention. I captured D.C., Annapolis, Baltimore & Philadelphia in the East; in the West I captured Louisville, Cincinnati, St. Louis & Indianapolis. The AI seemed to focus too much on the Canada angle. After this experience I upped the difficulty levels. But this was keeping most British in Canada with an occasional foray over the line.
After saying all this I'm wondering has anyone used the strategy to ,at least, land all of the British units from England in the CSA proper while keeping the handful of units in Canada in place?:
Vegetius wrote:I would prefer not to let canadian troops alone, they can be very useful by threatening Michigan or joining the BEF in Boston.
On their own, they can not resist in long term to the Union army and give a lot of moral and victory points to the USA player.
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