American Civil War Game Club (ACWGC)

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

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Lieutenant Chris Horn
II Corps, 2nd Division, 6th Brigade
Army of the Potomac, USA

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

Hi Rich,

Was always curious why a Siege of Vicksburg scenario was never created for the Vicksburg Campaign? I know it's a long battle but similar to Peterburg or Gettysburg, those have made for some interesting large multiplayer battles.

Regarding your point about the naval units, have always wished there was separate unit types for sea and river boats with deep and shallow water hexes. This makes me think of the battle at Fort Sumter, Mobil, N.O. vs the river fleets of the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and the transporting of the troops on transport ships at Belmont, Shiloh, Ft. Henry/Donelson, etc..

I know this is for scenario fixes/tweaks, so I'll keep my final CWB "wish list" to myself.

I would have liked to of seen a master list of Leaders (names/images/campaign), a master weapons file (that could be used on all CWB series) and a master .pdt to use as a default for designing scenarios or tournament for any version of the series.

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Union War Dog!
MG. Derek Hampel
Cmdr. Second Div., XV Corps
Army of the Tennessee

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

D. Hampel wrote:

"I would have liked to of seen a master list of Leaders (names/images/campaign), a master weapons file (that could be used on all CWB series) and a master .pdt to use as a default for designing scenarios or tournament for any version of the series."


I'll second that request. The games are terrific and deserve a lot of applause, but ----. I get weary of having to check the PDT each game turn that I'm playing so as to remind myself of how many movement points are expended in this scenario for movement in woods, etc. A forest is a forest, I don't care where it was located. That analogy applies to several other game situations where the game designer was allowed to alter the PDT to suit their individual tastes. Some standardization needs to be applied and when something does not comply with the standard, it should be pointed out in the scenario description so that the game opponents will know that before they start play.

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

Without checking every scenario (checked 2 or 3 scattered throughout the lists) for each game, here is what I found. The numbers indicate the movement costs for infantry (first number is cost in line, and the second number is cost in column) in forests.

Antietam 5/4
Atlanta 5/5
Chancellorsville 5/4
Chickamauga 5/4
Corinth 5/5
Forgotten 5/4
Franklin 4/4
Gettysburg 4/4
Overland primarily 5/4 but some extreme variations
Ozark 5/5
Peninsula 6/6 and 5/5
Petersburg 5/4
Shenandoah 5/4
Shiloh 4/4
Vicksburg 5/5

If I am playing a scenario each from Gettysburg, Peninsula, and Chickamauga; my brain is too feeble to remember the different movement costs when I open the game turn.

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

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

As a personal preference, I would rather see the movement factors contained in Chickamauga 039 in lieu of Antietam. The reason being that I'm used to cavalry being able to move 24 hexes instead of just 20, but if that was the standard then I could live with it.

You are correct that there are some scenarios in Overland that have very odd movement rates that would require changes in other areas of the PDT to make it viable, which means that they couldn't be done with an en masse change. I've previously custom altered the Overland Cross the James scenario PDT to fit Overland standard movement and to correct an error in it. Bringing them back to normal doesn't impact their road and clear hex movement but it does impact movement in other terrain.

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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

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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)