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What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/29/2008 8:08:47 PM

hgilmer

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I can't seem to upload a picture, but I just had 87,000 troop in Sept 62 commanded by Grant face off against Beauregard with 57,600 in Paducah.

I was sweating bullets on that one. Grant pulled it out, but casualties were about 18000 to 11000 in favor of CSA having less.

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 4:00:25 AM

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Same battle but Grant brought in 90,000+ and Beauregard had about 80,000. South won a major victory.

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 4:09:47 AM

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I actually got up to 90K in a Manssass Va battle in which the South attacked me and I got to react to it. I won that battle, but the war was already lost.

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 3:48:21 PM

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The CSA invaded Mannassa (sp?) with about 65,000 troops vs. my 38,000. But I was able to react in about 40,000 more. I got crushed, 26,400 casualties and about 50 guns vs. 11,000. Beauregard then had the majority of his troops parked on the front doorstep of DC. I lost that game.

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 4:34:11 PM

tedhealy

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End game as USA in late 64, 190,000 under Grant capturing Richmond against Lee with about 140,000.

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 5:12:34 PM

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Hijacking the thread a little...

The last 500 text msgs brought up by the "e" key would be a lot more valuable for battles if it reported the total number of troops and the total committed (at least for you side).

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 5:33:05 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: willgamer

Hijacking the thread a little...

The last 500 text msgs brought up by the "e" key would be a lot more valuable for battles if it reported the total number of troops and the total committed (at least for you side).

Boy, those numbers seem pretty high?? Did they field that large of armies for real??

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RE: What's your biggest battle so far? - 6/30/2008 7:05:58 PM

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I think the largest battle in terms of total number of troops engaged was Gettysburg where appx 75,000 CSA faced off against 97,000 Union.

But remember, a battle in this game involves an entire month and a region that may contain multiple population centers. It could conceivably represent a series of engagements over an entire month, not just one single battle. Gettysburg OTOH took 3 days and was mostly confined to one small town. Its apples to oranges in a way.

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