moni kerr
Posts: 691
Joined: 1/19/2001 From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada Status: offline
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Welcome to my AAR, or my nightmare depending on how things go. Both Jim and I have played ACW1 by pbem although not against each other. I've played about a dozen games and won about 60% of them. That's an OK record, and indicates that I still have a lot to learn about this game. ACW2 is an expanded version with many new features. There will probably be some bugs at first, but the team at AEGOD gets their patches done quickly, so we shouldn't have too many glitches to deal with. My general strategy when playing the South is a defensive one, although I will take the offensive in order to improve my frontier and to try to spoil the North offensive attempts. As the South, you have a lot of territory to defend and your coastline is especially vulnerable. Key cities such as New Orleans and Savannah are vulnerable to direct invasion and they need to be strongly defended. Charleston and Mobile are protected by forts and can be more lightly defended, but you should still build a nearby reserve to bolster your defense. Reserves are an important component to successfully defending Southern independence. And for the efficient deployment of them you will need to build your rail capacity. You might want to station them inland near vulnerable regions along the major rivers. Be very aware that Brigs and ocean transports are shallow draft vessels and can sail up major rivers, disgorging blue jacketed hordes into your heartland. If they land opposed by a strong entrenched force, they will get slaughtered. If they land unopposed, their cohesion loss and low entrenchment level make them easy pickings to a quick counter attack. My first task is take an early lead in VP and NM to boost chance of foreign intervention. Since there isn't much to buy at fisrt there is no point to doing anything that costs VP or NM. I'll raise bonds (cost 25 VP) after I have the lead. That applies to regional decisions like requisions and draft which cost VP. Some demonstrations in high output cities like New York, Boston etc can help lower their output by raising CSA loyalty. Only $10 if it works, and that's bargain as countering will cost $25 or VP for using Habeas Corpus decisions.
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Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.--Ben Franklin
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