When I play the game against my buddy, I (as USA) find myself having to maintain 5 supply depots in order to maintain the depot initiative modifier after a certain leader is done raiding each turn. I have seen him take out some 60 supplies in a single raid. Who is this mega-cavalry leader? Forrest right? Nope..., how about Van Dorn. Seeing him pound away at my supplies turn after turn despite having a fully staffed Sheridan screening made me wonder just what this guy had done in the real war. I found this:
Early in 1862 he was sent to command in Arkansas in order to get Ben McCulloch and Sterling Price to cooperate. Launching an attack at Pea Ridge, he was repulsed
after two days of fighting. Ordered east of the Mississippi, he arrived too late to take part in the fighting at Shiloh but participated in the unsuccessful [:@] defense of Corinth, Mississippi. In the summer of 1862 he successfully defended Vicksburg but failed [X(] in his designs on Baton Rouge when the attack under John C. Breckinridge failed [:@]. Another failure [:-] occurred when he attempted to retake Corinth in October 1862. By this time many Southerners were disenchanted [:D] with him, and he was placed in charge of the mounted troops under Pemberton. His raid on Holly Springs, Mississippi, was a major factor in ending Grant's campaign in central Mississippi. Moving his division into middle Tennessee, he was killed on May 7, 1863, by Dr. George B. Peters for attentions paid by the general upon the physician's wife in Spring Hill.So the guy essentially bumbled around in the West and the Trans-Mississippi for some time until he got himself killed by a civilian.
As I said, seems a bit overated to me. Other opinions?
- P
