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In any given SP game, I can win as long as I have....

Originally posted by hingram
In any given SP game, I can win as long as I have....

...the button to the Editor showing on the screen.

Bing

Air Power , Muhaha

Nuts!!!

Originally posted by hingram
In any given SP game, I can win as long as I have....

Hmmm I like this poll thingy

I also love the new forums

Originally posted by hingram
In any given SP game, I can win as long as I have....

... a decent battle plan, a fair share of luck and lots of coffee

I think the poll results reflect good combined arms tactics...
The armour, the artillery, the beer... the sum is greater then the parts...

hee hee it's neck and neck and neck and neck!

And it is OVER!

No winner today folks.

If I did not lose all the time :rolleyes:
M4

Where's the button for 5 to 1 odds ?

Originally posted by hingram
In any given SP game, I can win as long as I have....

The ultimate power, or as some call it the power switch under my thumb.

I was going to say the enemies battle plan then I remmebered McClellan at Antietam......

Originally posted by Fallschirmjager
I was going to say the enemies battle plan then I remmebered McClellan at Antietam......

Uh oh... a Civil War buff.

Jager, you care to enlighten me about what McClellan did, or did not do at Antietam? I guess I can look it up, but it'd be nice to have a quick explanation...

always eager to learn more :p

Uh..ohh you just had to ask....

Well I love an oppurtunity to shatter the myths about the Civil War and inject a little soutern pride.


We will start with a little bio of McClellan. He was a military genius until he got on the battlefield. In his early 20's he was one of a select few to represent the US as an observer to the Crimean War. He wrote something like 10,000 pages of highly detailed material on the war for the War department. Anyways moving to the Civil War. He had already proved his incompotence in the Penninsular Campaign (ill sum that up at a latter date). His biggest flaw was his fear of failure and of sending men to their deaths. Even though he always enjoyed a large manpower advantage he always was overly cautious in his attacks.

Now to Antietam. In September 1862 Lee was marching into southern Maryland. He sent Jackson to take Harpers Ferry with most of his force. That left Lee with around 18,000 men. One of Lee's runners in his cavlary (history remembers his name but I cant) was carrying Lee's battle plans wrapped around some cigars in the wrapper. He was cutting across a cornfield when by some ill stroke of fate he drops them.
Now our friend McClellan knew Lee was around and was marching against him. McClellan had a fear of Lee (he had yet to win a battle against him). He also always thought the South outnumbered him (which was never the case). So he knows the Rebels are around Harpers Ferry and begins to march his army Between Lee and the forces at Harpers Ferry.
He has some picket lines moving ahead of his main force and lo and behold one of them stumbles across the afore metioned cigar wrapper. He takes the package back to McClellan. Upon reading them he reads that his, and get this, 95,000 man force outnumbers Lee's tiny 18,000 men. Jackson and the other part of the Army are at Harpers ferry which is about a 2 day forced march from Antietam. He actually thought the plans were wrong and were meant to throw him off. He delays attacking and Lee can bring all his forces together for the attack.

In the battle Lee lost about 1/4 of his force and was allowed to fall back to Virginia to regroup. The battle was a tactical Minor Union victory. If McClellan would of attacked the 18'000 he could of crushed the Army of Northern Virginia and the war may of ended.
This ended McClellan's term and Lincoln quickly dismissed him in favor of Burnside (an even bigger idiot).


McClellan ran in the 1864 but pulled out because he thought there were to many canidates....j/k little joke their
He lost as Lincoln got re-elected.

I bow humbly in respect..

Thankyou! Funny a historical character of McClellans magnitude has passed my eyes unseen...although the mistake of actually having the enemy's plans and yet not believing they are authentic has certainly been made by a fair number of commanders throughout history.

To sum it up: Who dares, wins!

Your quite welcome....

One more thing when he marched on Richmond he believed the South oppossed him with 300,000 men which would of been around 17% of the white southern male population. That would of been near impossible to put in uniform by that stage of the war. He was told this but refused to believe his own census beruea. That puts his incompetence a little higher in my book.

FLAME:D

what was that for?????

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