elmo3 -> RE: Purpose of Corps (12/5/2006 5:23:47 PM)
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Obviously OOB's changed throughout the war but for discussion purposes here are rough OOB's for Antietam and Gettysburg: Antietam ANV 45,000 men First Corps (5 divisions with 21 brigades); reserve arty at corps level Second Corps (4 divisions with 18 brigades); arty attached to divisions Cavalry Corps (not sure of size) Army level reserve arty (not sure of size) AOP 87,000 men I Corps (3 divisions with 9 brigades) II Corps (3 divisions with 9 brigades) V Coprs (3 divisions with 8 brigades) VI Corps (3 divisions with 9 brigades) IX Corps (4 divisions with 8 brigades) XII Corps (2 Inf divisions with 5 brigades and 1 Cav division with 5 brigades) Looking at the manual, pg 56 and working our way up the organizations we see: USA divisions can contain 4 brigades and CSA 5. At Antietam most USA divisions had 3 brigades except for Pleasonton's Cavalry Div that had 5. Close enough. The CSA divisions averaged about 4 brigades which is within the game limits. Both sides corps can have 8 units with no more than 3 USA divisions and 4 CSA divisions. For the USA at Antietam only the IX Corps violates the division limit. The CSA First Corps had 5 divisions so that is over the game limit as well. Not bad though. In the game both armies can have 8 units attached with the CSA getting one more corps (5) than the USA. The AOP really violates the game limits with 6 corps. The ANV only has 3 corps, 4 if we assume Pendleton's arty reserve was a corps. So not bad overall with a few exceptions. Gettysburg ANV 72,000 men First Corps (3 divisions with 11 brigades; and an arty reserve) Second Corps (3 divisions with 13 brigades; and an arty reserve) Third Corps (3 divisions with 13 brigades; and an arty reserve) Stuart's Cavalry Div (6 brigades - 2 not present); and a horse arty unit) Imboden's Command (cavalry) AOP 94,000 men I Corps (3 divisions with 7 brigades) II Corps (3 divisions with 10 brigades) III Corps (3 divisions; one not present with 6 brigades present) V Corps (3 divisions with 8 brigades) VI Corps (3 divisions with 7 brigades) XI Corps (3 divisions with 6 brigades) XII Corps (2 divisions with 6 brigades) Cavalry Corps (3 divisions with 8 brigades and horse arty) Arty Reserve (5 brigades) Clearly the AOP violates the game limits at the Army level but other than that is looks pretty good. The ANV is within game limits at all levels if we don't count Stuart's two missing brigades. So IMO the game limits do a pretty good job allowing people to build armies and lower organizations that were being built during the war. The exception in both cases is the number of USA corps that were historically in an army. Not sure if the designers want to reconsider this or not. It is possible that these two battles were the only cases where real life USA armies violated the game limits.
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