AAR: Save the Union

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JonReb and I are starting a PBEM game and I thought it would be fun to try to imitate jchastain and Gil and conduct my own battlereport. I will be taking the side of the USA and attempt to save the Union from the rebel forces.
My wargame experience is limited to the Combat Mission games from battlefront which I have been playing for the past four years.
Turn 1
Here's the game options we chose to play with.

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These are the Generals I was given.  A little disappointed considering but I'll have to deal with what I’m given.

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[font="times new roman"]Here’s my economy screen for the first turn.  I shifted some cities from labor to money to start the diplomacy war.  I left iron and horses at the defaults for the turn.[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]To composite for the production shift away from labor I decided to impress labor from three cities in the hopes of being able to jumpstart my economy building.  As you can see from the screenshot Labor was really the only option I had that did not carry any real danger. [/font]
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[font="times new roman"]The Diplomacy screen.  Let’s see if I can outspend him.[/font]
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Going to jump ahead and show the force disposition.  I moved all my forces out of Kentucky and combined the 18th and 19th brigades and sent the empty 19th canister out west.

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[font="times new roman"]And finally my promotion choice.  I chose McClellan because he is already out west and because of the bonus he comes with.  Lets see where this battle goes.  I’ll upgrade Emory or Grezz next turn.[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]Turn 2[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]Turn two was all about building up my infrastructure.  First let’s take a look at the Report page for the first turn.  Alright, we win a small battle in Westpoint, hopefully it will give experience to my green troops.  Next we notice that I stupidly lost the 19th division, well fudge.  That Impressment attempt did not work out too well either, I only got 1 of the 3 cities, luckily I dint have any cities go into unrest. [/font]
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[font="times new roman"]On the second page disease strikes. Luckily the losses were small and will be replaced quickly.  However I noticed France support for CSA increased to 3!!!.  How in the world dose it jump 3 points in one turn.  He must have pored all his money into France I guess.  [/font]
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[font="times new roman"]I shifted the economy of some cities from iron to horses in the hopes of getting a cavalry unit built.  I also chose to impress 40 horses from Buffalo, New York.  Hopefully it will be better then the last attempt.  I also build a Iron Works and another mine in Harrisburg, a Armory in Connecticut, and a Engineering in Rhode Island.[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]The distribution of our forces.  Not much changed[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]And I chose to promote Gregg to four stars and he’s now in command of the AoP[/font]
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[jchastain]

I have to admit, this is fun to follow.  Good Luck and thanks for posting!

[madflava13]

Looking really good so far... Can't wait for the next installment.

[Gil R.]

I agree with jchastain. And I hope that others will soon follow suit and post additional AAR's.

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Turn 3
[font="times new roman"]I don’t have much to show this turn.  Winter has come so I’ve chosen to have my armies sit tight where they are.  Most of the brigades are on no supply to direct the reinforcements to those that had been hit by disease.  My impressment of horses in New York failed but there is no unrest.[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]Nuts, he got iron from Europe, At least he did not increase with England or France.[/font]
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[font="times new roman"]I cut back on my diplomacy spending this turn to afford a Hospital in Delaware, A Calvary unit and a RR station.  I also equipped some of my better infantry brigades with mini rifles.   [/font]
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[font="times new roman"]The situation in the East.[/font]
 
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[font="times new roman"]Here’s the AoP in all its fine glory.  [/font]
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[font="times new roman"]I forgot to get a picture of it but I promoted Emory to 3 stars.  My plans for the spring offensive involve taking two divisions down to Florida and laying siege to Tallahassee.  We’re see how that goes if I can keep his fleet bottled up.  [/font]
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Turn 4
[font="times new roman"]1st part of the turn’s report.  I win a naval battle and my Impressment of Iron is a success, Yes!.  [/font]
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