Answer to Balance

[battlevonwar]

I am thinking of editing the 1861 Scenario to +15 production for the South or +20% that or 2 extra chits into Industrial Technology. (Think the IT Tech is the wisest Patch till someone figures out how to patch this game) I went into the Editor and I should be able to manage to do this without a hitch.

The IT tech increase should give the South a fighting chance on land. She will have at least = the land units in Summer of 1862 for game purposes I think is it going to be required. Plus the ability to invest some into Tech to be competitive long term. . . I don't know if this is too much of an edge but we will see.

[Bobo2025]

I think in general the research times need to be extended. It is one thing to drop 200 MPP into IE1 on Turn 1. It is another to turn around a few months later and upgrade all your units plus drop another 200 into IE2 and then do that again in 6 months. The stress on the limited CSA resources is crushing and they rapidly get to a point where they are by mid 1862 qualitatively and quantitatively inferior to the Union forces.

[metabagel]

Seems like nobody knows for sure the size of the CSA army, however 640,000 Union vs. 450,000 CSA seems like a good starting point for what summer of 1862 should look like.

Union Army strength:
https://books.google.com/books?id=DqY6A ... e=bookclip

Confederate Army strength:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confedera ... ganization

Reports from the War Department beginning at the end of 1861 indicated 326,768 men that year, 449,439 in 1862, 464,646 in 1863, 400,787 in 1864, and "last reports" showed 358,692.

[battlevonwar]

That should be roughly right. I know in the West and East the CSA was outgunned in a major way early but the CSA was more dispersed that or the Union had so many more men they had both garrisons and field armies that were way higher in number. I read a 3 book Anthology on the Civil War several years ago and in every fight. You were looking at armies on the order of 30,000 Confederates, 70,000 Union. Again and again and again.

Aside 1861 it was a lopsided event but then again to win, you need either a force multiplier or a lot more men on the offense during the Civil War.(2 to 1 or 3 to 1 ratios I think were suggested?0 Also there is defeat in detail. (which Lee and Jackson used to great effect in Virginia despite the fact the Union outgunned there is a serious way) They were in enemy territory.

Seems like nobody knows for sure the size of the CSA army, however 640,000 Union vs. 450,000 CSA seems like a good starting point for what summer of 1862 should look like.

Union Army strength:
https://books.google.com/books?id=DqY6A ... e=bookclip

Confederate Army strength:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confedera ... ganization

Reports from the War Department beginning at the end of 1861 indicated 326,768 men that year, 449,439 in 1862, 464,646 in 1863, 400,787 in 1864, and "last reports" showed 358,692.