American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

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Brigadier General Richard Walker
II Corps, 4th Division, 6th Brigade
Army of Tennessee
(JTS/WDS Scenario Designer)

Scenario 007 of Campaign Gettysburg has: 1) release dates out of order in the Release Dialog and 2) the Scheduled Dialog has Benning coming in at 10:20 PM when darkness occurred at 8:00 PM (scheduled time should be 10:00 or 11:00).

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Gen Ned Simms
2/XVI Corps/AotT
Blood 'n Guts hisself, a land lovin' pirate. Show me some arty tubes and we'll charge 'em.
VMI Class of '00

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Paul Swanson
Lieutenant-General
First Division
First Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

Scenario 003 in Antietam has different possible entry points for reinforcements. At 8:00 a.m. a brigade for Runyon's division has a 25% chance of showing up (159,0). There is no road there and it is in deep woods. I'm sure this is a mistake.

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Loudscott
Lt. Colonel
Army of the Tennessee

The Wauhatchie scenarios always seemed off to me. Campaign Chickamauga - scenarios 77 to 80 inclusive.

The Yanks start off with 1500 men (Cobham's PA Bde & Ireland's New Yorkers) and the Rebs (Jenkins' SC Bde) start off with 1200 men plus. The Yanks get 4 Napoleons also. Ireland's Brigade is fixed for the first turn - so is the 186 man Hampton Legion, which is way back on the CSA objective.

The game starts at 150 points which is Union Minor Victory (the game status changes to draw if the Rebs pull it back to 100 points) In theory, the 82 man Palmetto Sharpshooters regiment can grab the Union objective hex on the first turn (Rebs move first here) - but the rest of the brigade can't get there. In order to reach CSA Minor Victory, the Rebs have to get the victory status to -100 which seems like a tall order.

I'm no expert on the campaign but I have a hard time believing the six regiments of Jenkins' SC brigade only brought 1200 guys to this fight. They missed Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. In general, South Carolinian regiments found it easier than most to return wounded to duty and gather up conscripts until the winter of 1864-1865... I guess they went with Longstreet to Knoxville - but even so.

Anyway, IMO if the idea is the Rebs defend - the victory conditions don't make that possible. If the idea is both sides attack - the Rebs don't have enough men.

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Lieutenant General TW Marshall

ACWGC President 2022 - 2025

Commanding Officer, II Corps, Army of Tennessee

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Paul Swanson
Lieutenant-General
First Division
First Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

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Respectfully, your obedient servant,

Maj. Gen. L.P. Smith
Division Commander - II Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

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Brigadier General Richard Walker
II Corps, 4th Division, 6th Brigade
Army of Tennessee
(JTS/WDS Scenario Designer)

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Brigadier General Richard Walker
II Corps, 4th Division, 6th Brigade
Army of Tennessee
(JTS/WDS Scenario Designer)

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Brigadier General Richard Walker
II Corps, 4th Division, 6th Brigade
Army of Tennessee
(JTS/WDS Scenario Designer)

Some of the Forgotten Campaigns Morris Island scenarios feel badly broken to me - take for instance scenario 049-630710-[H]Morris Island.30.scn

When the 6th Connecticut arrives at 10,77, the protection radius for the reinforcement causes the emplaced Confederate batteries at 11,76; 13,76; 13,75; and 12,74 to rout. As these guns are emplaced, when they rout and change facing, they cannot be refaced and remain permanently facing inland, making it trivial for the Union player to assault the batteries one-by-one from behind especially as more reinforcements arrive, as the battery at 13,71's line of sight to Oyster Point is blocked by the battery at 13,73. Having such a wide protection radius for reinforcements which effectively represent an amphibious landing against a prepared defensive position doesn't seem reasonable to me. Browning's "Success Was All that Was Expected" notes that the Confederate shore batteries weren't particularly effective historically, but the result of the current scenario design is badly balanced.

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Lt. Col. Will Koch
5th Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps
Army of Northern Virginia
CSA

In the Forgotten Campaigns 058 Pleasant Hill 20 scenario the wrong leader is used for one of the Confederate brigades - the image for "BG John B Clark" is for John B. Clark Sr., who commanded of the Missouri State Guard's quasi-divisions at Carthage and Wilson's Creek from the Ozark title. By 1864, Clark Sr. was in the Confederate Congress, where according to the Biographical Register of the Confederate Congress (Warner & Yearns, 1975) his "extracurricular activities in Richmond [...] were said to include mendacity, drunkenness, and the attempted seduction of Albert Pike's mistress".

The brigade commander at Pleasant Hill was actually Clark's son, John B. Clark Jr. Wikipedia has a good picture of Clark Jr. at

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Lt. Col. Will Koch
5th Brigade, 3rd Division, I Corps
Army of Northern Virginia
CSA

Antietam 116 Weather_Gaps to Manassas.scn

The 1st & 2nd Bn. 2nd NY Heavy Artillery have only 2 men each.
The OOB calls for them to have 300.
The other 2 units have their full strength as shown in the OOB.

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Gen. Ken Miller




The McKeesport Union Guard

1/1/I
AotP

While helping another member in researching some things I came across a possible tweak that may be of interest in Chickamauga 015 Historical Murfreesboro.

In the research I read Cleburne's report on the battle which said in part:
"Before daylight I formed line, placing Polk’s brigade, with Calvert’s battery, on the right; Johnson’s brigade, with Darden’s battery, in the center, and Liddell’s brigade, with the Warren Light Artillery, commanded by Lieutenant [H.] Shannon, on the left. Wood’s brigade I placed a short distance in rear of Polk’s. This brigade had no battery in the fight, its battery (Semple’s, of six Napoleon guns) having been detached the day before to support Hanson’s brigade, of Breckinridge’s division, and having remained with that brigade on the right of the army."

Where is Semple's battery? Hanson doesn't have them; Wood does, but only four (so two have disappeared).
The battery of Napoleons should probably be increased from four to six and placed (probably undetached as they appear to be under Hanson's command) over with Hanson's other guns.

[Note: Wood is not placed behind Polk but I believe that his placement is correct as Cleburne says later: "General Cheatham’s left did not move forward at the same moment as my right, and my division, inclining to the left as it advanced, a gap was soon left between us, which General Hardee directed General Wood’s brigade to fill."]


In doing that same research I also came across an amusing report made by the Union's R. W. Johnson which said:
"At 6.22 on the morning of the 31st the outposts in front of my division were driven in by an overwhelming force of infantry, outnumbering my forces greatly, and known to contain about 35,000 men. At the same time my extreme right was attacked by the enemy's cavalry."
So, Johnson saying he was attacked by a "known" force of 35,000 men - more infantry than the Confederates even had at the battle. Hilarious, he would have got on well with McClellan.

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Paul Swanson
Lieutenant-General
First Division
First Corps
Army of Northern Virginia

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Paul Swanson
Lieutenant-General
First Division
First Corps
Army of Northern Virginia