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We have wondered whether there'd be any interest to do brief general biographies as a fan-project, to be included in a later patch. I didn't write any of the biographical text, and I rather enjoy popping up the text and reading about a governor or one of the legendary units. So I personally think the game would be improved by having interesting short biographies of each of our 1,000 or so generals. We'd have to set up a wiki or similar thing. Another possibility would be to find a book with a short biography of every general already written and simply license some of the text.

We have about 1,000 generals altogether. If we had 20 people each volunteer to do 50 biographies each we might get it done. Our other biographies are typically only a few sentences long, one or two sentences to give the basic facts and one or two sentences to give an interesting anecdote or unusual bit of information. If anybody's interested, just reply on this thread. If we get 20 interested people then I'll try to organize something.

Here's the link to the discussion thus far on the other thread:

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If you please, let's move the remainder of the discussion to this thread, which has a more appropriate title.

I am in. Give me my 50 generals.

People who are interested should announce their interest here or e-mail me separately. (Eric has enough to handle, what with the programming and all.) But make sure to look over the other thread, which will give you an idea of what's involved.

Before beginning to divide up the generals we'd like to have more volunteers, so this might take a few days (or longer?) before we're up and running with this.

Would the volunteers be able to see a beta build [&:]

Betas are only for play-testers, unfortunately. However, anyone who comes to GenCon in Indianapolis this week will get to see the most recent beta in all its glory. (Chicago's not too far away from Indianapolis...)

Figured I would give it a shot [:'(]

the answer is ALWAYS no till you ask. [;)]

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Betas are only for play-testers, unfortunately. However, anyone who comes to GenCon in Indianapolis this week will get to see the most recent beta in all its glory. (Chicago's not too far away from Indianapolis...)

Indianapolis! Alright! Thousand or two of American dollars is not too much to see The Game!!! See you there[:D]
Any chance you show it in Europe? Or better yet (and cheaper [;)]) can you please post some graphics?
The thing that drives me is graphics and screen shots and I am running low [:D].
Post few pics, please.

Thank you,

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

People who are interested should announce their interest here or e-mail me separately. (Eric has enough to handle, what with the programming and all.) But make sure to look over the other thread, which will give you an idea of what's involved.

Before beginning to divide up the generals we'd like to have more volunteers, so this might take a few days (or longer?) before we're up and running with this.

Gil,

I tried to e-mail you but it failed [&:]. Can you e-mail me so I can get your adress.

Godspeed,

Tried to email you Gil - but would not take - I'm in, please send me my list ( Grant, Sherman, Lee - the obscure one's like them! )

ORIGINAL: diesel7013

Tried to email you Gil - but would not take - I'm in, please send me my list ( Grant, Sherman, Lee - the obscure one's like them! )

Nice to see that there is more interest in doing bios.
Just a remark: It would not be fair if you get all the best generals and left us with Allens and such [:(]
The ration should be 45 bad and unknown generals and 5 great ones as a bonus, or something like that.
Just a suggestion, though


Godspeed,

marecone.............nice to see another Forrest fan!

ORIGINAL: captskillet

marecone.............nice to see another Forrest fan!

Hi. I thought that I saw this picture somewhere on this forum. [;)]
And, I am definitely a Forrest fan. Big time!

Godspeed,

I did advertise you a bit on yahoo groups. Civil war history2 and Lee and Jackson civil war club. They have like 1000 members. So, I hope this will help with bios and sales.

This is, so you don't say I am always asking questions.[:'(]
Now I gave something in return. [;)]

Godspeed,

I'm at GenCon in Indianapolis until Sunday, so I might not have time to start assigning generals. If you tried to e-mail me and failed, please try again, or just put a posting here that you tried and I'll get in touch soon.

FYI, Eric is also here, so his time on this forum will also be quite limited until Sunday.

Have fun there and hurry back. We are waiting with questions [:D]

Godspeed,

Being a proud Carolinian, I would love to do this.  Please try to avoid TOO many invader generals. As for Forrest, do not forget that he ran from Grant at his first fight. [:D]

And just for asking for Grant Sherman Lee, Diesel should get Pillow.

ORIGINAL: Murat

Being a proud Carolinian, I would love to do this.  Please try to avoid TOO many invader generals. As for Forrest, do not forget that he ran from Grant at his first fight. [:D]

And just for asking for Grant Sherman Lee, Diesel should get Pillow.

Dear sir,

Forrest didn't run away sir. Back then he was just a Colonel under command of General Pillow, Floyd and Buckner.
You are referring to Fort Donelson battle, I asume. Well he had a choice either to stay and surrender with rest of the 15000 rebs or he could take his cavalry and relocate to safer position.
He didn't have the menpower or rank to fight this battle and he did what he had to do.
He actually was hero of that battle as well. He SAVED 2000 men from certain prison p north.
So, I still stay firm at my coviction that he was one of the greatest generals of American Civil War.

Godspeed,

ORIGINAL: marecone

ORIGINAL: Murat

Being a proud Carolinian, I would love to do this.  Please try to avoid TOO many invader generals. As for Forrest, do not forget that he ran from Grant at his first fight. [:D]

And just for asking for Grant Sherman Lee, Diesel should get Pillow.

Dear sir,

Forrest didn't run away sir. Back then he was just a Colonel under command of General Pillow, Floyd and Buckner.
You are referring to Fort Donelson battle, I asume. Well he had a choice either to stay and surrender with rest of the 15000 rebs or he could take his cavalry and relocate to safer position.
He didn't have the menpower or rank to fight this battle and he did what he had to do.
He actually was hero of that battle as well. He SAVED 2000 men from certain prison p north.
So, I still stay firm at my coviction that he was one of the greatest generals of American Civil War.

Godspeed,

Right battle, but you forgot that he ran TO Donnelson and then ran away FROM Donnelson. He got better but not a great start. He ran a lot more too at the end of the war, but admittedly the numbers were against him then. As for greatest general, tough to say since he refused to lead a major army when it was offered to him. I love cav, but to be one of the greatest you really need to command a major field army.

Dear sir,

I said one of the greates genenerals. Not the greatest.
Your knowledge of history probably supreses mine. I own just one book about ACW [:(]
Maybe greatnest could be meassured by his decline of higher position. It is important to know your limits.
Maybe he would be a terrible general if he would lead great many of men. So it was better to decline higher position.
Plus, I don't agree that a general needs to be in command of an army to be a greates general. High positions were usually occupied with generals that had political conections and such. Not including such as Lee and Grant[;)]

Godspeed,