Hello. I know that I've just joined this server but I might as well get the ball rolling.
I diagnose myself with some high tier disorder which makes me obsess over OOBs and troop strengths and such. And so, for the last 3 years, I have been trying to write up and organize a bunch of OOBs for battles and Campaigns like Atlanta, the Overland, Chancellorsville, Chickamauga, and Franklin-Nashville. I've taken some of the stuff I have garnered from these years of buying books, frequenting more avid individuals on CWT, and have made some OOB edits on the JT games I have, particularly on the Overland and the Atlanta games.
Since I've joined (and am currently enrolled for the eastern armies), I decided to put my efforts into writing up an OOB with more accurate regimental strengths for the various units on both sides. And so, I've written that up today.
For the rebels, my primary source was Alfred C. Young III's "Lee's Army During The Overland Campaign: A Numerical Study", which breaks down the strength of Confederate infantry down to the brigade level, and casualties to the regimental level. With these (and other sources mentioning specific units), I have managed to give approximate strengths for the entire rebel Army of Northern Virginia (and Beauregard's command) all equaling up to the brigade totals. There are a few instances where I got more specific. For example: On CWT, a friend named Hanover posted regimental strengths for Pickett's Division (or the brigades of said division) as of May 9th, which I have included. For Steuart's and the Stonewall Brigade, I made an approximate estimate based on average regimental strength after casualties at Wilderness and Spotsylvania (30 for Steuart, 60 for Walker), and add back the casualties by regiment for these two battles. Young rounds most of his brigade strengths to 5s, and so these are not fully accurate, but they are close enough and quite clean I would say.
As for the Union, I had a more difficult time, as Young has yet to publish a similar work on Grant's command. However, my friend Hanover over on CWT did a thread breaking down the regimental strengths and brigade losses of 5th and 6th Corps at the Wilderness. I put in the numbers presented there as is, without rounding.
I definitely need to put more work into this, especially in the Shenandoah theater, as the numbers in game reflect William C. Davis' original numbers for the forces under Breck and Sigel rather than Charles Knight's more modern computations in his New Market book. That I am currently working on in a second version. I also hope my friend Hanover can help provide me with further information on 2nd, 9th, and Cavalry Corps, and potentially the Army of the James.
Link in zip file (created by Scott) here:
https://www.wargame.ch/wc/acw/Downloads ... OOB_v1.zip