JonReb(CSA) v ShootMe(USA): Glory of the South!

[jonreb31]

Since it is almost winter and the season of disease I've decided to split up my army and send them to winter quarters. I've sent Jackson's Corps to Lynchburg where a Hospital is current under construction. I've then left behind a division of Lee's Army to stay behind at Fredericksburg to help garrison the forts while the remainder of the army takes quarter at Petersburg. Next turn I'm hoping to get some hospitals in Richmond and Petersburg. I don't have to worry about the west because there are already enough hospitals out there.

My final act is to move my ALL my available ships to New Orleans to prepare construction of a improved fleet. However I'm going to leave behind my Ironclad in Richmond just in case.

My other future objectives this winter are to continue to increase my research points for advances in technology, build hospitals to fight disease, build camps to reinforce my armies, and try to continue boosting my economy.

[jchastain]

Hmmm.  For some reason I am seeing on the last screen shot.  Anyone else having the same problem?
 
Great to see this going though!  Can't wait to see how it goes for you guys.

[jonreb31]

I've decided to go with promoting Sibley since he is going to be the future army general of the Army of Tennessee.

As for the raiders I've set them both to Destroy Supplies. If they both work it will prove devastating to that small force north of Mephis.

[madflava13]

Yeah I only had the last screenshot show up... Otherwise it's the infamous red "X" in a box...

[jonreb31]

ORIGINAL: jchastain

Hmmm. For some reason I am seeing on the last screen shot. Anyone else having the same problem?

Great to see this going though! Can't wait to see how it goes for you guys.

Just noticed this. Must be some problem with the host .. I hope they fix it.

[jchastain]

ORIGINAL: JonReb

ORIGINAL: jchastain

Hmmm. For some reason I am seeing on the last screen shot. Anyone else having the same problem?

Great to see this going though! Can't wait to see how it goes for you guys.

Just noticed this. Must be some problem with the host .. I hope they fix it.

The last few are showing up fine. If you still have the shots, it might be a good idea to just edit the early posts and reattach them.

[jonreb31]

I'm using a Image Hoster. I accidently deleted a few shots so I'll wait for them to get it back up then I'll upload them through the forum.

Anyways, ShootMe is gone until this evening so I have sometime to catch up with the manual (I've only read half of it!)

Great game you have all made, It's only the second turn and I'm having a lot of fun.

Edit: Fixed.

[Gil R.]

Looking good so far!

[jchastain]

Naughty Naughty...

[jonreb31]

Turn 3

1/2 Events

[jonreb31]

2/2 Events



If your wondering about the Victory Points I've actually gotten one point for the support I'm getting from Europe. I didn't know you got victory points for that.

Anywho not the most eventful turn. Sibley was promoted to four stars, the governor is happy. I'm really quite surprised Disease hasn't hit me yet!

I hit that small force at the river hard and depleted about 45 supplies. It didn't do anything to the numbers but I think I'll keep pounding them to waste the enemies supplies and maybe do some attrition damage soon.

Other Europeans just sent me 5 iron. England support +1 USA. Not the most important issues.

I lost East Ohio River which is understandable. I actually didn't know it would count as a city of mine (Starting empty behind enemy lines at the beginning of the game.. heh) so that's an owie to the VP.

For the runners there's only one thing for grabs, just one chance at 60 iron which is relatively safe so I'll take it.

[jonreb31]

THIS is what really concerns me. Approx 26,000 Union Troops just made it to the border of Arkansas. Is he actually planning to attack me in the winter? If that's the case then bring it on.

The weather is starting out really bad, every movement across the map is in the black so moving is extremely difficult. I've got about 22,000 men in Arkansas, but I don't expect his army to make it through this weather so I'm going to sit tight in Memphis.

[jonreb31]

On the side I think I'm going to send the newly arrived General Branch to the Army of Tennessee to help command. By the way, the Army of Tennessee is slowly growing and has made it to 32,000 men.

[jonreb31]

In the east I was a bit late in moving Lee. He failed in his movement so now he's stuck in the nasty weather at Fredericksburg. I'm going to try and keep getting him to Petersburg, though.

One interesting thing to notice is there is still no commander for the AOP and quite a few of the other Union armies. This gives me a slight advantage because with my Generals' I'm training my units and improving their attributes. Check the Events and you will see.

I'm also going to switch one of my mediocre general's out of the ANV with General Hill.

Otherwise that's about it in Army movement, the navy is still on it's way to New Orleans.

[jonreb31]

For building I'm beginning construction of a Hospital in Petersburg. There's not enough labor for a second one in Richmond so I'll take the opportunity to build a camp here, to increase reinforcements each turn.

I haven't quite got the income for a navy yet so I'm going to invest in a Naval College in New Orleans. This will help in further research to give me an edge over the Union, hopefully.

I'm building a Mint in Wilmington to increase my money income.

That's all I can afford for buildings this turn. I have a feeling I'm making bad choices in what I buy, but oh well.

[jonreb31]

I just noticed my labor income is really slow all of a sudden so I think I'll switch over some of the money to labor. I really need labor to build more, I'm surprised it was as low as 55.

Speaking of economics and supplies I'm going to try the strategy of putting my units in the east to No Supply to increase my money income and reinforcements going to Western units. There's a very small chance combat will occur in the east, and even smaller that it will be against one of my main army units, so I'm going to go ahead and do it for 2-3 turns.

This will really help out my defense in the West aswell because I have only approx 75,000 units stations there (not including garrisons) which is hardly enough to hold back the Union forces. The Union general also seems to be more aggressive in the west so focusing all reinforcements to the west should be a good choice.

[jonreb31]

I now have a HUGE boost of 122 gold per turn. I'm going to go ahead and use this opportunity to dramatically increase my foreign spendings.

[jonreb31]

Here's an overview of the map.

Finally for this turn I've upgraded the rest of my units in the "Army Of Arkansas" (I'll now call it) with guns that are at least decent. All of them either have Minie Guns or something better.

[jonreb31]

For promotion I've chosen Ewell to become a Corps commander. He commands a division in Franklin but I think I'll combine his Division with (Previously Hill's) Division in Kenawha to form a Corps sometime soon..

Once again I used destroy supplies with both raiders on that Union unit. Let's see what happens. Next turn I really want to start building up my navy, I shouldn't put it off. 2-3 Ironclad should do the trick, along with the support of those gunboats from Savannah.

[madflava13]

Just curious why you didn't promote one of the Johnstons... Their ratings seem better?