American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

this may be a dumb question, but how do you tell which game file that you are currently playing? especially in a campaign?

Lt Col Ken Turner
Turners Alabama Bde
1st Infantry Div
2nd Corps
Army of Alabama

Open the .SCN file in any text editor, like NOTEPAD and look at the first few lines, like these:

"!HISTORICAL 1.2a Gettysburg - July 2, 1863, 5 am
1863 7 2 5 0 1 0 1 53
10 40 60
10 40 60
-2500 0 1500 4000
0 4 0 0 4292
5100 2600
gettysburg3-sub.map
Gettysburg2.oob
confederate standard.pdt"

The line shown first, here, is the scenario.

<b><font color="gold">Ernie Sands
General, Commanding, Army of Ohio

ACWGC Cabinet Member
ACWGC Records Site Administrator
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Ernie provided good advise for finding standalone scenario titles but it can become much more difficult for campaign scenarios. Most of them are relatively easy to decide which you are fighting but some of them can't be figured out until your opponent tells you which choice that he made at the start of the scenario because you might have to know where his reinforcements arrived at in order to know which scenario that you're playing. Here is a rough process for finding out what campaign scenario to register:

1 - Open the cpf file of your game with Notepad to get the name of the scenario (e.g. the Battle of Edwards and it also tells you that it is 67 turns in length (which you already knew from playing a turn))
2 - Open the game's Campaign Editor
3 - Open the campaign.cpd (sometimes you have more than one choice due to weather options etc and you have to find the one that you're playing)
4 - You have to keep up with the campaign choices as the campaign unfolds or it can become difficult to know where you are in the campaign (e.g. if you know that you are at Fourteen Mile Creek. Look at the Fourteen Mile Creek choices for both the Reb and the Yank)
5 - You know what choice that you made but the problem is figuring out what choice that your opponent made. Often you can tell what your opponent chose to do by the process of elimination (e.g. the number of turns that are in the scenario).
6 - Pay attention to the naming system in the Campaign Editor and not so much what is in the cpf file (e.g. by the process of elimination, the Campaign Editor says that you are playing fmc_jax c2u2)
7 - With that info go to Game Registration in the DOR.
8 - Game Registration has all of the standalone scenarios listed first (and sometimes there is a standalone with the same name as the battle that you're fighting but it would be the wrong choice) and then the campaign scenarios.
9 - You'll find your campaign game (e.g. fmc_jax c2u2) and you select the appropriate one.

I also don't think that all of the games have the campaign scenarios listed in the Game Registration and that the games also don't follow a standard naming process. If you're fighting a custom scenario then you'll have to register it as a custom scenario.

Since the club doesn't collect or maintain any statistics anymore for completed games, I guess that its up to you to decide if its worthwhile to go through the trouble of accurately registering your campaign game, but after being shocked with a campaign ending unexpectedly, I at least keep up with the possible impact of a campaign scenario.

Lt Gen Ned Simms
1/1/VIII/AoS/USA
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00