Wish List

[Paper Tiger]

Perhaps a commander with an "Organised" attribute and a cost in supplies should be required.

[christof139]

Perhaps a commander with an "Organised" attribute and a cost in supplies should be required.

That is a very excellent idea!! Makes mucho sense!!

Fat32 Halleck and/or 'Bull' Nelson come to mind, along with W. Scott or Scot, Winfield himself.

Have to find someone, at least one for the South.

Chris

[General Quarters]

Buttons:

Some of the buttons do not visibly "depress" so it is hard to know if you succeeded in selecting them. For example, where you choose level of gameplay, e.g., "intermediate," and where you confirm your exit, "Yes, exit," and I think there are a number of others. I am never sure whether to click again or whether that might confuse the computer.

EDIT: My computer consultant found the same thing. There does seem to be light or something around the button but, since some of the transitions take so long, you can't tell whether you succeeded and something is happening, or whether the game is just doing nothing.

[christof139]

Buttons:

Some of the buttons do not visibly "depress" so it is hard to know if you succeeded in selecting them. For example, where you choose level of gameplay, e.g., "intermediate," and where you confirm your exit, "Yes, exit," and I think there are a number of others. I am never sure whether to click again or whether that might confuse the computer.

Computers always get confused, especially when a mouse is double-clicking due to age or not being cleaned or just going bad. I have to clean mine, maybe start using my new and cheap [:)] optical mouse, because sometimes the compooter reads my clicks wrong, as two clicks or more, due to whatever reason.

Chris

[Paper Tiger]

Biggest annoyance, having to restart a turn if you decide that one order decision made early on isn't what you wanted.
Give us a way of removing all orders relating to a single unit/div/corps/army/city
 
Second biggest annoyance, realising that I missed a move, build etc on a PBEM game just after I press end turn and having to not just go  back in to the game and change the turn but also completely redo it as it isn't possible to simply revise the turn after that click
 

[Ironclad]

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[Paper Tiger]

Things not in the manual that should be added. Info here only vaguely garnered from discussions on this forum.
 
1. Details on the effects of academies on the organisational levels of containers.
2. Details on the use of Cavalry to counter Raider and Partisan units.
 
Anyone got anything else?

[General Quarters]

Change of commanders:

I find myself tempted to move generals with lots of teachable skills to new divisions after they have "trained up" their own soldiers. IRL, that would be a very bad practice, since it would undermine the commander-soldier bond. It might make sense to lower the morale, or for their to be a chance of lowering the morale, of troops who receive a new commander.

[Mike13z50]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

ORIGINAL: briny_norman
Perhaps the unit 'jumping' could be a little less random and based on your army organisation - next unit is always from the same division etc... That would also encourage realistic battlefield manouvering, ie. keeping divisions together etc...
And maybe you could make so the you don't jump to the next unit before the animations of the current unit has been played through...

It should be the case that units in the same military group (directly attached...) move on the same initiative segment. This way military groups can move together.

I'd like to have higher units such as Corps and Armies deploy adjacent in HW. Divisions all deploy together, but one division from the a corps is usually at one end of the front and another division is at the other end. I like to keep my Corps intact and functioning as a unit. It is somewhat anoying to have to march a division around the back of the army to group a corps. Ditto with armies; if you have more than one army in a HW, the armies units ought to deploy contiguous; ie 1st army on the left, 2nd army on the right.

[christof139]

I'd like to have higher units such as Corps and Armies deploy adjacent in HW. Divisions all deploy together, but one division from the a corps is usually at one end of the front and another division is at the other end. I like to keep my Corps intact and functioning as a unit. It is somewhat anoying to have to march a division around the back of the army to group a corps. Ditto with armies; if you have more than one army in a HW, the armies units ought to deploy contiguous; ie 1st army on the left, 2nd army on the right.

I second that emotion, as it will lessen the commotion.

BTW, may I borrow your Washington Arty. Bn. for a TOT on my perfiduous and obnoxious, perpetually imbibed neighbor?? A TOT on his head might wake him up so to speak, enlighten him a bit. Bracketting his silly self might also prove entertaining. I could see him running back and forth and all around quite dizzy in a bewildered tizzy.

Just a thought.

Chris

[Greyhunterlp]

personally I'd like to see the advisors replaced. When everyone else has photos its kinda jarring to see a couple of CGI faces. even if its just a photo of some unkown soldier. Although using the (a) secretary of war for both sides would seem to be the best idea to me. - I know that I could do this myself, but its picking the best person for the picture. someone who actually knows something about the civil war could make a suggestion. 

[christof139]

personally I'd like to see the advisors replaced. When everyone else has photos its kinda jarring to see a couple of CGI faces. even if its just a photo of some unkown soldier. Although using the (a) secretary of war for both sides would seem to be the best idea to me. - I know that I could do this myself, but its picking the best person for the picture. someone who actually knows something about the civil war could make a suggestion.

Hi, Someone did that already with a mini-mod, and it is here in these forums, but I can't find it. I think he used the Secrataries of War for both sides to replace the 2 cartoon characters as people were calling them. If I ever find thses tow photos of the Secrataries of War, I'll make a thread so people can download them and install them if they want to. I think it was William Amos that did this mini-mod with the 2 photos, not sure.

I'm looking now for this, but I think this change/mod is going to be in the upgrade/patch.

Chris

[christof139]

personally I'd like to see the advisors replaced. When everyone else has photos its kinda jarring to see a couple of CGI faces. even if its just a photo of some unkown soldier. Although using the (a) secretary of war for both sides would seem to be the best idea to me. - I know that I could do this myself, but its picking the best person for the picture. someone who actually knows something about the civil war could make a suggestion.

Hi, This is all I found and it is a funny by PixelPusher. However, someone did post 2 Pictures of I believe it was the 2 Secratatries of War to replace the vanilla Advisors, I just can't find this in the froums, although I know it is here and had downloaded the new pics of the Secrataries of Wa previously. i just spent ~2 flipping hours looking for these pics, without success. IF ANYONE KNOWS WHERE THEY ARE PLEASE POST THE LINK HERE, AS I TOO AM TIRED OF LOOKING AT THE VANILLA ADVISORS. The CSA Advisor looks like an irate chipmunk or squireel with nuts in its mouth or someone chewing tobacco or someone with an abcessed tooth and infected jaw, like I jst had. I feel sorry for the vanilla CSA Advisor.

Chris
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http://tinyurl.com/35z5z7

or in original address form

tm.asp?m=1298849&mpage=1&key=replacing% ... s&#1300200

"That's TUBBS: Tough, Unique, Bad, Bodacious, Sassy." -Detective Ricardo Tubbs

Seriously: if you take those two images above, and just save them as .pcx files, you can swap out the offending game graphics for what-ever you feel are more appropriate as advisor heads. Don't just change the extensions on the jpgs... you must save them as .pcx format. Filenames are:

Advisor_CSA.pcx
Advisor_USA.pcx

Also:
-files MUST stay the same size
-don't include any 0,0,0 color pixels, as it will appear transparent.


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[christof139]

personally I'd like to see the advisors replaced. When everyone else has photos its kinda jarring to see a couple of CGI faces. even if its just a photo of some unkown soldier. Although using the (a) secretary of war for both sides would seem to be the best idea to me. - I know that I could do this myself, but its picking the best person for the picture. someone who actually knows something about the civil war could make a suggestion.

Here they are!!! I found 'em after much time and searching!!! The 2 Secretaries of War CSA J. Seddon and USA E. Stanton.

Read the instructions here and in PixelPushers post.

Chris
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http://tinyurl.com/36xslu

Mods and Scenarios: Graphics mod - Advisors - 12/10/2006 11:47:22 AM

Posted by mdeyrot of Plattsmouth, Nebraska.

This mod replaces the advisor graphics with photos of the respective

secretaries of war - James Seddon and Edwin Stanton.

link: FoF_Advisors.zip

to use:
Download the file linked above and copy the two pcx files to your

Forge of Freedom\Gfx\Advisor directory. Back up the existing files

first.

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PixelPusher's funny and file substitution (not replacement, save the

2 old Advisor files):

http://tinyurl.com/35z5z7

or in original address form

tm.asp?

m=1298849&mpage=1&key=replacing%2CAdvisors&#1300200

"That's TUBBS: Tough, Unique, Bad, Bodacious, Sassy." -Detective

Ricardo Tubbs

Seriously: if you take those two images above, and just save them as

.pcx files, you can swap out the offending game graphics for what-

ever you feel are more appropriate as advisor heads. Don't just

change the extensions on the jpgs... you must save them as .pcx

format. Filenames are:

Advisor_CSA.pcx
Advisor_USA.pcx

Also:
-files MUST stay the same size
-don't include any 0,0,0 color pixels, as it will appear transparent.


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[mpa541]

Hi Guys,
&nbsp;
as already mentioned in another thread Please add off&nbsp;game miniatures resolution...I know the market research says its not a selling point....all I can say is that the market researchers maybe didn't ask the right people.....Most computer gamers are not miniature gamers...but Most miniature gamers ARE computer gamers.....off&nbsp;game mini resolution would be a fantastic selling point for both this and COG.
&nbsp;
thanks
&nbsp;
Mike

[Greyhunterlp]

Thanks a lot Chris,
Goodbye 21st Century constipated computer guys,
Hello 19th Century Serious blokes with Bad Beards (What was it with the ACW? They impress all the barbers or something? [;)])

[christof139]

Thanks a lot Chris,
Goodbye 21st Century constipated computer guys,
Hello 19th Century Serious blokes with Bad Beards (What was it with the ACW? They impress all the barbers or something? )

Ha ha ha!!! I guess!!! I think beards and moustaches were also popular in Europe at the time, however, bald heads were never popular, just ask Gen. Burnside and he will tell you it is why he grew his ridiculous Sideburns.

Burnside really wasn't an idiot, and did some good Amphibious Ops. early in the war along the east coast, and he also had a sense of humor or humour. At Antietam or Sharpsburg, after his troops had crossed the Lower Bridge, Burnside was having a chat with a couple of Union Infantrymen when a CSA Arty. projectile and/or some minie balls went Whooshing!!, Phhhtttting!!, and Bzzzzing!! by. So, Burnside says to the Infantry fellows something akin to this, "Well boys, it's getting a little hot here for Gen. Burnside and I think I will be on my way now." Something like that he said, and the Infantrymen just shook their heads and laughed etc. It's good to have a sense of humor and it can help through bad times.

CSA Gens. 'Old Baldy' Ewell, 'Grumble' Jones, and 'Old Jube' Early were also VERY eccentric. Jones was half-nuts, maybe three-quarters, while Early was the only person in the ANV that Lee allowed to cuss and curse in front of him. Lee made some humorous remarks about this and 'Old Jube'. All Lee could do was shake his head, half-smile and chuckle and pray for Early's salvation. All three of these Gens. were good as you may very well now, but 'Old Jube' was very good, and he was considered for Corps and possibly Army command. Lee put a lot of trust in Early, and that is why Early was put in command of CSA forces during the 1864 Valley Campaign. Overall, Early did very well in that camapign. Gen. Evans of South Carolina always had one of his aides carrying a small keg of whiskey for him, as the story goes, and it seems to be true.

We had a Lt. Col., our Bn. CO in the Army, 'Mad Marvin' as I invented the nickname and most everyone ended-up referring to him as, that was quite a character.

Take care over there across 'The Pond' in 'Old Blighty'. Mercy me on the Merseyside it is getting late, or Early !!!

Chris in Detroit

[Dasara II]

ORIGINAL: Dasara II

You could shake things up a bit and have a governor put a general forward every time there is a rank needed! Naturally gov attitude goes up 10 if you accept or goes down 5 if you don't

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Please add this idea to the Wish List thread so we remember it. I think this would make a fine addition (but not for this patch!).

Also, it would be nice if it was the Governors with the worst attitude that put the majority of the generals forward for promotion, that way if would make it harder to say no [;)]

[Drex]

Promotions could be selected from an "eligibles List" or some kind of negative political impact would result. Eligible Lists would include all generals one rank below.

[Battleline]

This may have been addressed somewhere in the 20 pages of posts. I couldn't check them all, but I'm sorry if this has been addressed.
In regards to the brigades/regiments (the smallest unit we use), would it be possible to have them named for their state of origin, such as was the practice in the real Civil War?
Can it be possible for generals to be assigned to one brigade/regiment? This might help us find homes for all of these generals we're working on. The one game I have tried, I've had a number of out-of-work generals. I end up with numerous generals being put into garrison duty just to give them something to do.
Could there be a bonus for generals assigned to command troops from their home state? I know the Confederates tried to keep a general from a brigade's home state in command of that unit.
If the basic unit is a regiment, could we get a brigade container? Then a division contain could contain so many brigades (and brigades could be assigned generals), a corps could consist of so many divisions, an army of so many corps, etc.
Overall, from what I've been able to see of the game, it's good. Maybe one of these days, I can spend more time playing the game after we've got these bios whipped.
Battleline