Depots to Wagons

[Banks6060]

In pondering the logistical realities of the American Civil War period and the possibilities inherent in the transfer supplies from one station to another and from one FORM to another. I got to thinking...

Would it not be possible to, if you so choose, reverse the conversion of supply wagons to depots, and at some slightly diminished final product, convert supply depots back into supply wagons??

That as opposed to simply destroying a depot.

1. It would make raids doubly effective...in that you could not only choose to destroy a depot...but to carry off at least some of the loot for your own army to use.

2. It would allow retreating parties to collect supply and thus make use of it instead of just discarding it all when pressed by a superior force.

Is this possible given the boundaries of the program's code?? Thoughts??

[Gray_Lensman]

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[Banks6060]

Well, if the code doesn't support it then the point it moot. But for the sake of argument:

I would concede the historical argument against use of such a feature in raiding. disassembling an entire depot by a small raiding force would certainly be a tall order.

But, in consideration of the strategic withdrawal from a given supply center...I would think it historically plausible that an army which built a depot out of a supply train (or part of one)...in an effort to pack up and carry as much supply back with them as they could....could just as effectively collect and build a supply train out of a depot. They're both made of essentially the same material. If it were possible then it would certainly make entering "Winter Quarters" much more cost effective...when in regions that don't already contain a structure or depot.

i.e. You set up the depot when winter sets in at normal cost....then tear it down when you're done.

But...as I mentioned before...the idea is not possible with the current code restrictions. So I will rest my case . Thanks for the quick reply Gray.

[Gray_Lensman]

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[Aphrodite Mae]

...Maybe we could add this to the same list with "Assault Balloons"?...

You just wait and see!

I'm going to learn to mod, and then you know what I'm going to do?
That's right: Assault Balloons, armed with 12 lb Mountain Howitzers!

And it'll get even better, when I figure out how to do an Air Assault style slingloading operation, so I can transport Cav!
My "Horsies and Howitzers: Death from Above!" mod will be even more popular than Clovis' SVF!

Just wait and see...

[Pocus]

You'll have slightly more control on Wagons and depots 'supplies flux' in VGN though.

[gchristie]

You just wait and see!

I'm going to learn to mod, and then you know what I'm going to do?
That's right: Assault Balloons, armed with 12 lb Mountain Howitzers!

[SIZE="4"]"It is balloon!"[/size]
Chief Wild Eagle, Hekawi tribe

[Banks6060]

You'll have slightly more control on Wagons and depots 'supplies flux' in VGN though.

Nice . As I've mentioned in my AAR with Soundoff, I have been listening to Shelby Foote's narrative of the war and was listening to the section on Joe Johnson's withdrawal from Manassas to behind the Rappohannock River. He basically was trying to pack up as much of the supplies at the depot as he could and take it with him...granted he was forced to discard some of it. But a large amount was incorporated back into the army's supply train and moved to Culpepper.

Seemed plausible to me I suppose.