American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

Rich
I like both of your ideas
1. to limit Arty disrupt time
2, a better chance of undisruption for units disrupted by routers.
Can this be done?

Major General Tony Best
AOJ

Anything is possible.

Having a regiment run through a battery is also going to frighten the horses.

Maj. Gen. Beno
Pickett's Division, I Corps, ANV

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<br />Having a regiment run through a battery is also going to frighten the horses.
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Maybe, but guns in battery don't need horses.

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College

Rich,

To answer your question regarding arty fire in Franklin I like it! I'm not saying its perfect just that I think its a drastic improvement over the CC and CO models. I do not have CG so I can't offer any comparison there. Obviously this is just my opinion but its why I keep playing CF and I don't CC or CO. Btw, Rich, I appreciate how willing you are to listen to the feedback from we gamers and to act so quickly in making adjustments where needed! It speaks volumes for you and HPS, thanks again. Best wishes,

Maj.Gen. Mike Smith
3/3ANV
[url="http://convolutedmuse.blogspot.com//"]Convoluted Muse[/url]

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<br />Rich,

To answer your question regarding arty fire in Franklin I like it! I'm not saying its perfect just that I think its a drastic improvement over the CC and CO models. I do not have CG so I can't offer any comparison there. Obviously this is just my opinion but its why I keep playing CF and I don't CC or CO. Btw, Rich, I appreciate how willing you are to listen to the feedback from we gamers and to act so quickly in making adjustments where needed! It speaks volumes for you and HPS, thanks again. Best wishes,

Maj.Gen. Mike Smith
3/3ANV
[url="http://convolutedmuse.blogspot.com//"]Convoluted Muse[/url]






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OK... I'm a little confused... Why the the various HPS ACW games have different arty effects. I would think that they should all behave the same ?

Colonel John Corbin
Commanding officer
2nd Division
XVIII Corps
AoJ

Mostly it is because the different games have been done by different teams, and there isn't full agreement between the teams as to how powerful guns and the like should be.

You'll see the same thing in the Nap games, especially with movement.

Ideally, they should all be the same, but you can go ahead and get Drew and Rich and all into a room and see what happens [:D]

Col. Gary McClellan
1st Division, XXIII Corps
AoO,USA

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<br />Having a regiment run through a battery is also going to frighten the horses.
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Maybe, but guns in battery don't need horses.

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College
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But a battery without caissons and horses is just VP's for the attacker.

Maj. Gen. Beno
Pickett's Division, I Corps, ANV

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Gary McClellan</i>
<br />Mostly it is because the different games have been done by different teams, and there isn't full agreement between the teams as to how powerful guns and the like should be.

You'll see the same thing in the Nap games, especially with movement.

Ideally, they should all be the same, but you can go ahead and get Drew and Rich and all into a room and see what happens [:D]

Col. Gary McClellan
1st Division, XXIII Corps
AoO,USA
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From what I have read it would seem that the players here might be able to provide some work on this...

May I suggest to all that an adhoc committe be formed with the intent to hammer out consistant pdt values for the weaponry these games use ?

After a standard is reached on paper we could test play the new pdt files....

Any thoughts ?

Colonel John Corbin
Commanding officer
2nd Division
XVIII Corps
AoJ

Actually the differences between artillery in Corinth and Gettysburg are very slight. I checked only two type of guns the N (Napoleon) and T (Parrot) but they are the predominant types. The main difference is on Version 103 of Corinth that lowered the N's close range factors. Here are the main changes:

N (Napoleon)
Distance 1 2 3 4 6 8 10 13
Corinth 1.01A 14 11 7 5 3 2 1 0.5
Corinth 1.03 12 10 6 5 3 2 1 0.5
C. Gettysburg 14 11 7 5 3 2 1 0.5

T (Parrott)
Distance 1 2 3 5 10 12 14 18 21
Corinth 1.01A 8 6 5 4 3.5 2 1 0.5
Corinth 1.03 8 6 4 3.5 3 2 1 0.75 0.5
C. Gettysburg 8 6 5 4 3.5 2 1 0.5

Actually based on at least these two guns it looks like Gettysburg is based off the first release of Corinth rather than the later patches. I don't have CF and CO so can't compare these. Maybe someone else can add their numbers for these two gun types.



Col. Kennon Whitehead
Chatham Grays
III Corps, AoM (CSA)

I believe Corinth and Ozark uses the same values.

<i>Campaign Franklin</i> uses the following as in your example:

N (Napoleon)
Distance 1 2 3 4 6 8 10 13
Corinth 1.01A 14 11 7 5 3 2 1 0.5
Corinth 1.03 12 10 6 5 3 2 1 0.5
C. Gettysburg 14 11 7 5 3 2 1 0.5
<b>C. Franklin 1.03 25 18 10 8 6 4 2 1</b>

T (Parrott)
Distance 1 2 3 5 10 12 14 18 21
Corinth 1.01A 8 6 5 4 3.5 2 1 0.5
Corinth 1.03 8 6 4 3.5 3 2 1 0.75 0.5
C. Gettysburg 8 6 5 4 3.5 2 1 0.5
<b>C. Franklin 1.03 9 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 </b>

My guns at Nashville are closing in on the Reb lines now ... if they (the Rebs) don't run first, I will be able to report on their (the cannon's) effectiveness. Long range fire, so far, seemed more decent than in the other HPS (ACW) games.

Gen. Walter, USA
AoS / War College