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[Sir Slash]

Here's the war at the end of November. I've got strong armies under A.S. Johnson in Bowling Green and Polk in Paducah, Ky. and cavalry raiding across the Ohio River. At Salem, Il. we captured the town and a Supply Depot intact with 464 Supply Carts and 50 Crates of ammo. A nice haul for sure.  O0

[Martok]

Got a little ACW 2 in over the weekend and here's the latest. November 1861: If you thought war would be put on hold for bad weather, like I did, you were wrong.

Beauregard pushes up the Shenandoah in the rain and mud to Winchester and looking for dry clothes and gets hit 3 times in one turn. First by Mc Dowell and then twice further by a new player, Edwin Sumner. Beauregard, 'The Rock of the Shenandoah', takes all 3 battles. Here's the largest and bloodiest.

Damn, Beauregard is a beast.  :o 

[MOS:96B2P]

Combat Mission Red Thunder.  The tank riding, no prisoner taking, one eyed, Forward Observer.  ;D

[Rayfer]

Great screenies MOS.  Makes me want to fire up Red Thunder again soon.

[Sir Slash]

Damn! That guy looks scary.  :hide:  Guess he REALLY doesn't like Flak Guns.

[W8taminute]

That's either a JS-1 or a KV-85.  I can't tell and I'm a bit embarrassed I admit.

What's that tankette the other soldiers are riding on?

[MOS:96B2P]

That's either a JS-1 or a KV-85.  I can't tell and I'm a bit embarrassed I admit.

What's that tankette the other soldiers are riding on?

The tankette is a T-70M.



I think the tank the forward observer is on was a JS-2 (early).  The reason I say think is because you can see the barrel, travel, support mechanism (or whatever the correct terminology is) for 122mm gun.

 

Interesting the cool stuff you can learn about history by playing games.........  ;D

[W8taminute]

Yes indeed a lot to be learned from these types of games. 

Yup and I'm embarrassed about the T-70.  I should have known that one but with the turret covered with troops I couldn't tell. 

[Sir Slash]

The last time I played Scrabble I got these letters and I TOLD everyone this was a word. But, nooo. We're not allowed to use the Pillars of Eternity 2 Dictionary.  :nerd:

[Sir Slash]

Time for an ACW 2 update: Fresh off their victories in The Valley, Confederate forces are badly scattered and without cohesion. But a menacing new build-up of forces in Alexandria, Va. under Nathaniel Banks threatens Manassas and it's Supply Depot there, held by a single division under James Longstreet and a cavalry brigade. So.... Who you gonna call? Beau-re-gard!

But the only Southern forces with any cohesion is the small 14th. Division and Gen. Bee's Brigade. So I send them with Beauregard and a handful of support troops by rail to Manassas. It'll take them 2 days to get there. Will they be in time?

No sooner does Beauregard's train pull into the RR station in Manassas than Banks strikes. The results are below. The South's 4th victory over the North inside of a month. The real hero here is 'Old Pete'. His heavily entrenched division did the lion's share of the fighting... and bleeding. More to follow soon.

[Rayfer]

Great victory in light of being greatly outnumbered in infantry and artillery.  Generals play a very major part in the outcome of battles in ACW2.

[MOS:96B2P]

Interesting stuff Sir Slash.  I wish I had more time to learn a new game.  This one is interesting.  You could probably make a simple AAR with screenshots and brief narratives of your campaign if you had the time/patience.  Does it automatically end on a given date (then issue a score) or can you fight as long as you want? 

[Sir Slash]

This, the Grand Campaign ends in 1866 unless one side scores an automatic victory by causing the other side's National Morale to drop below a certain score, I can't remember what, but this usually happens if one side captures the other's Capital. Playing as the North, I won when I took Richmond automatically but otherwise it keeps going and the side with the largest Victory Point total wins depending on the difference between the scores. I'll show some of that at the end of 1861. I thought I'd post this here because I don't want to interfere or confuse people with Tripoli's excellent AAR of the same game he's doing now. He inspired me to take this game up again, I'd long neglected.

Rayfer's right about the Generals, Beauregard's numbers are 5-4-4, which translates to Strategic-Offense-Defense. Longstreet is a 5-2-6. His, '6' Defense is probably the highest in the game. Put them together and you get a very potent defensive duo.  O0 But it's also important that Longstreet had 4 turns to sit in Manassas and entrench to Level 4 when we needed every man we could get to fight in The Valley. But Manassas being an Objective City, it was only a matter of time before the Yankees came that way. Still, it was a tough decision to make and that's what's so great about this game, more so than most of the other AGEOD games I've played, every turn there's many tough calls to make.

Glad you're enjoying it guys.

[MOS:96B2P]

Combat Mission Red Thunder.  Crunchies.   (Look at the tracks).

[Staggerwing]

Those look like friendly crunchies...  :(