A. P. Hill

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Congrats.

Congrats.

I say, revisit this title and incorporate everything that was missed in this effort.

very nice.

Don't let the name fool you. While it does have picture on practically every page, there's plenty of words as well, and a great education.

One book???!!! That's a large order as there are over 50,000 books on the topic. However, if I had to pick one, it would have to be one of the earliest books I've ever read and acquired for my personal library. American Heritage Picture Book of the American Civil War, by Bruce Catton. 630 extra large pages for your reading pleasure. Enjoy.

Actually A. P. Hill's ailment was far more serious than this. I have two biographies on him and both tell that while Hill was at West Point, and travelling back and forth between Culpepper VA and West Point, his travels routed him through the city of New York, and it is rumored that he visited the red light district and contracted gonorrhea. Much of his physical sickness during the war had to deal with the effects of that disease.

It's the little things!

Chamberlain is overrated.

Part of the concept with this game, I opine is, that it is somewhat simulating actual events and tries to drive the player to follow those events via the various VPs. In this case the Shiloh Church area did hold for a while, as did the Hornets nest, before all the forces ended up Ultimately you are correct however, the best possible strategy, because of game mechanics, is to fall back and set your defenses protecting the landing, on the first day, knowing that the game is going to give you day 2 to overwhelm the confederate forces if you play union.

There are also a few things that I'd like to see cleaned up on this game, I won't go into them now, but I take it from the recent post by @Nick Thomadis, I think the game is pretty much done in the view of the developers. I'd like to see a revisit or two, but I get the strong sense of decision in that above mentioned post that time spent on UGCW is done.

Solution to rant? ... Being as how many have commented previously on that "phantom rebel cavalry force", I don't understand why folks playing this don't leave a brigade on each of the vital points of concern. It would be much more difficult for that "phantom cavalry" to take the VP if they had to contend with a full 2500 man brigade.

I disagree. (Imagine that! ) It was one continuously long fight. It ended on Jackson's death. But, Hill seeking justice to and for his name, continued to press for a hearing even after Jackson's death, due to the amassed records on the subject. Then it ended entirely at Five Forks when Hill was killed. Hill also had spats with Longstreet, but they are lesser known. I think in part because Longstreet and Hill are both lesser studied Generals. Everyone seems enamored with the Jackson enigma. However getting back to the one long continuous fight, it was what it was, because Jackson never carried out, nor retracted his charges against Hill in the first event. Hill was just trying to seek justice one way or the other and clear his name from Jackson's black mark through military tribunal. However in the end, Hill was able to fill the void in Lee's need for a good hard hitting general. Then again, Jackson, due primarily to his "trust no one" policy of running his organizations, pretty much had disagreements, (fights if you will,) with all his sub commanders. I also disagree with the statement of Longstreet working under Jackson. Longstreet was the senior field officer. Knowing his ego and thinking there would have been hell to pay if he had to work under a general he considered inferior in rank. Rank was one of the stickler points throughout most of the Southern armies and in particular with the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee had to constantly tip-toe around his generals to make promotions, as everyone was aware of the "since date" argument.

Ah! Well aren't we lucky!

What happened after the two weeks?

@The Soldier There really is an easy fix for the leader's portraits. Have a look at this.

@The Soldier I did state it as an option.

I would rather have the option to micromanage division commanders same as corps commanders.

I suppose you could extend this to other conversations here, such as, why don't the officer portraits look like the real individual?

Also be aware, if you have supply, that wagon takes a slot in your allowable force you bring to the field. Sometimes it's easier to forego supply and look to the enemy to provide for your army.

Daniel Harvey Hill, (no relation btw,) was a very capable officer. As long as there was at least one superior officer over him that would and could ultimately take any blame for failure. A lone with no superior he was a very indecisive commander, more worried about reputation than actual results. As a indicator of this weakness of his, all one needs to do is read about his time as commander of the N.C. region of the South.

Gee! I wonder?!

If infantry will move per normal manual manouvers as opposed to pivoting from the center in serpentine squiggly S movements you'll make me happy.

Real Life First.