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Andre Bolkonsky

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  1. Andre Bolkonsky
    Sooner or later, you'll get the joke.
  2. Andre Bolkonsky
    /nod That tends to be the culprit
  3. Andre Bolkonsky
    Yes. I think you are correct. This should have been corrected with all brigades being bumped up to 25 when hard cap is 24 brigades. But, I have personally documented in the last battles almost every corps has a brigade or two missing on the field.
  4. Andre Bolkonsky
    My idea runs similar to this. But it is what it is in this game. Something to consider for future projects.
  5. Andre Bolkonsky
    Agreed. Or in future games just give the player a series of deployment boxes and allow him to put what he wants where he wants
  6. Andre Bolkonsky
    Pandemonium's comments have merit. He is not the only person who is frustrated when you end a day with a well formed line of battle with your artillery well sited, and at dawn the next day units are randomly reassigned. It won't change, that's how the game is built, but I feel your pain.
  7. Andre Bolkonsky
    Yeah, there's still a problem with getting rid of quotes, btw.
  8. Andre Bolkonsky
    Yeah . .. you may want to reread my post again.
  9. Andre Bolkonsky
    I tried taking corespondence courses from a university in Vermont using their USB graduate degree program, but it didn't work out.
  10. Andre Bolkonsky
    Hear, hear! We are back to the discussion of Liddel Hart; his ideas were firmly rooted in long established practices. It is the application of technology that turns the screw. Always good to remember that WWII was won by deception, not brute force. Intrepid, the Whiffenpoofs, Lucy. Purple and Magic. How many army groups are those names worth? My takeaway from history is the side that fires first usually wins a battle, or a campaign; but they usually lose the war.
  11. Andre Bolkonsky
    Each generation of historians puts skins on the wall by attacking those who came before, and they will be attacked in turn. Same as it always was, same as it always was. And, if I may, the biggest 'abuse of German Military History' came from Adolph Hitler himself, who threw entire campaigns rather than let the Prussians get the credit for the kill.
  12. Andre Bolkonsky
    Kim Jong-un To quote Schwartzkopf's comments about Saddam Hussein: He is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational art, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man.
  13. Andre Bolkonsky
    Railroads. And the industrialization they begat by allowing the forces of production to be quickly shifted hither and yon. This is the first war fought with the railroads moving men and material and allowing them to arrive quickly in relatively fresh condition. Germany and France paid particularly close attention to this aspect. And the orientation of the rail lines in both the North and the South have been the subject of study since the war showing all advantages lay in the North. But, the entire war was fought for the railroads. Lincoln was a railroad man. It is not a coincidence his primary objective during the first part of his administration was green-lighting the Trans-Contintental railroad. And, of course, that beautiful instrument of war built by the North was turned West and killed everything that walked and crawled between the Mississippi and the Pacific in the name of the Railroads.
  14. Andre Bolkonsky
    Forgive the correction; but, with all due respect, that is maybe my favorite military tome of all time. Basil Henry Liddell Hart's book you reference is titled 'Strategy'. The Indirect Approach is the takeaway lesson; but Goebbel's propaganda machine's name for Fast Heinz's variation of the British military philosophers ideas rings much more clearly in the modern consciousness. And, apropos to this forum, my favorite part of the book is his description of Sherman's March to the Sea as, perhaps, the first Blitzkrieg given the fact Sherman allowed the Confederates to pick and choose his line of advance - Sherman moved against whichever target the Confederates failed to cover, the heart and soul of the Indirect Approach.
  15. Andre Bolkonsky
    I would say it is philosophical, not mystical. But, agreed, there is very little nuts and bolts discussion of military events and a lot of touchy-feely metaphors.
  16. Andre Bolkonsky
    Fixed that for you. Welcome to the party, I enjoy your perspective. When did you serve, if I may ask?
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  18. Andre Bolkonsky
    Agreed with Soldier. Use the large woods in the south during the opening phase to break and penetrate the Rebel line, then expect a corps each to arrive to your north and south. And, yes, that incredibly deep bench of artillery is a killer. Seriously, if the South had that much men and material, they'd have gone on the offensive rather than hiding in the cellars in Richmond.
  19. Andre Bolkonsky
    I have not. But I will take a peek. I have a campaign save for it. What, specifically, am I looking for?
  20. Andre Bolkonsky
    Those are maybe my two favorite battles in the Union Campaign. They are both highly winnable and you can inflict terrible losses on the Rebels. What you have to do is figure out where to establish and hold your defensive lines. And you have to hold that line by focusing all your forces at that point. If the Confederates break it, you're toast. You can only fight them on one front. And if you don't have a few Guards units in the second line of infantry, or don't have a second line of infantry, get one quick. Pro Tip: Artillery is your friend. Send extra rations to your 24 PDR Howitzer crews. The cannon cannot be too close to your line so they get sucked into a melee, but close enough to cannister Rebel units trading fire with your front line.
  21. Andre Bolkonsky
    Yes. Agreed. I am only describing what is, not what should be.
  22. Andre Bolkonsky
    Springfield Armory is where they built the US 1903 version of the Mauser Rifle. John Garand developed the M1 at Springfield Armory, it is an incredidibly rich history at that location. But, it closed in 1968.and is now a weapons museums. Springfield Armory was licensed to a guy in Illinois who builds specfic weapons systems like the 1903 and ubiquitous .45 cal 1911 hand gun according to the original blueprints and specs. And a lot of merchandising crap stamped 'Springfield Armory' probably made in China and sold through their company in Illinois and flaunted by people who think the Confederate Flag is something you stamp on a beach towel. Trump's America.
  23. Andre Bolkonsky
    You are already incentivized to wipe out a damaged enemy: looting the weapons they drop as they fall on the field. Just like you are incentivized to wipe out every non-OOB unit on the field. If you're not taking them back to Camp with you, if they don't die, those troopers will carry their weapons back wherever they came from. And when they are carrying Spencers, or their equivalent; really, you don't want those? I"ll take 'em.
  24. Andre Bolkonsky
    Me either. At Chick there are two victory option screens and a draw. That was what I was referring to.
  25. Andre Bolkonsky
    Another thing worth mentioning. The game is specifically designed to introduce new elements. Dartis hands you an entire cavalry corps for free at the exact moment in the game where Cavalry becomes mandatory, and the weapons they leave behind will fuel your cavalry for engagements to come. Same thing with the Lightning Brigade at Chickamauga. You have an elite corps designed to take heavy abuse, but you are required to learn how to use Spencers and Spencer Carbines; and come to understand how incredibly lethal they truly are, if you want to get a Victory for the battle. But what they leave behind is worth picking up and taking with you. Hell of a teaching tool you have to work with.
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