Gray_Lensman wrote:Surprise... Surprise... Now you know how Lincoln felt being saddled with "No-talent Hacks" the first couple of years. This is a deliberate part of the game design so you'll have to get used to it.
Gray_Lensman wrote:The south had a better military tradition at the start with poor resources to draw on while the north had overwhelming resources but suffered at the start from poor military command and tried to make up for it with political appointments.
captain curruthers wrote:if the game accuratly followed the rules of 'chain of command' these promotions wouldnt be a problem.generals do not suborn a command simply becouse theyre in the same area or(gamewise)the same stack.they have to be appointed to a command unless things are done differently in the U.S.
Jarkko wrote:It would be great if AACW2 had an option for semi-random hidden system for leader attributes (as seen in many ACW games), and the automatic non-sensical (IMO) "historical" dates could be left for those who prefer to play the game as if it was a history book
Yes, it might mean Mac actually gets good stats when he gets promoted, but it wouldn't be very likely (and you might be very reluctant to find out the truth in battle, thus achieving the ponderous action time Mac had in reality) and it might result in Grant not being the excellent theater leader in west.
Ie. if I had all the power in the world, I would design the system so that Mac has 50% chance to recieve below average stats when promoted, and 25% to recieve really poor but 25% chance to get average stats. Conversely, Grant might have 25% chance to get average stats, 50% chance to get above average stats and 25% change to get good stats. These might be called A, B and C type leaders (A has 50% to have above average, 25% to have good and 25% to have average stat(s), B might have 50% average and C might have 50% chance to have below average stats).
Would it require more work? Dunno, if average would (in AACW terms) be "3", and it has been determined in AACW a given commander has mostly 2's as stats, maybe he would be determined to be a C class commander. It would also be possible to change the classification of leaders as they get promoted (for example, Mac might be B class initially, but when promoted to Army commander he would be a C class commander).
Just rambling here, I'll go and hide myself behind the rock again![]()
Longshanks wrote:Perhaps there's a way to see such a list that I just don't know about. If so, someone please hit me up side da head with it.![]()
Longshanks wrote:That was from Dick Cheney, when he was Secretary of Defense if memory serves me. (wikipedia'd it... it was Donald Rumsfeld ... got the DoD part right tho!)
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