AGEOD to make American Civil War II

[Habbaku]

I have yet to be impressed by an AGEOD-engine game.  I'll wait for the $5 version.

[Tamas]

Their Russian Civil War game is very cool, for starters. ACW, BOA2...

The Ancient Rome games also worth checking out if you like the period.

[Syt]

Beta AAR of the Shiloh scenario:

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=3394786&mpage=1&key&#3394786

[Valmy]

George Thomas is so dreamy

[Valmy]

It annoys me on some level that the Lettowists have 1865 flags in a 1862 scenario.

[garbon]

It annoys me on some level that their games look like butt.

[Ed Anger]

It annoys me on some level that the Lettowists have 1865 flags in a 1862 scenario.

You'll live. Mew.

[CountDeMoney]

It annoys me on some level that their games look like butt.

[Valmy]

It annoys me on some level that their games look like butt.

Yeah.  It basically looks the same as the Napoleon one I bought several years ago from them.

[PDH]

All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

I have yet to be impressed by an AGEOD-engine game.  I'll wait for the $5 version.

I got my copy of the original for $0.50 from Microcenter.

[Tamas]

All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

divisions. you made divisions the size of armies 

[Valmy]

All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

divisions. you made divisions the size of armies 

What difference does that make exactly?  I mean so what if the Army of the Potomac is split into seven corps or three divisions?  It is still 70,000 yankees.

[Tamas]

All that I will have to do is make 30,000 men Union corps and steamroll the Confederates - it is what the North should have done and it pisses of Tamas.

divisions. you made divisions the size of armies 

What difference does that make exactly?  I mean so what if the Army of the Potomac is split into seven corps or three divisions?  It is still 70,000 yankees.

Just the kind of difference it makes in real life: it is easier to command 100k men if you have an organization around it. You get penalties in the game when there are too many units under a commander and/or in a too little organization. Think containers. You combine units and a leader into a division, you combine divisions into a corps with a two-star leaders, and corps are assigned to an Army (but not inside the "container" unit of the army. You cannot have Corps without Armies btw).

It is just that as PDH discovered, the penalties didn`t really matter that much if you can have a big enough numerical superiority, at least in ACW1 when we played.

[PDH]

My 30,000 man units that tromped all over you were Corps.  Each Division was 10,000 men, each Corps had 3 divisions.  I just filled up the units instead of having 10,000 men corps like the Union did.

The North had such great advantages in 1862 that they should have run all over the South.  Properly organized they can.  Still, it does make for a crappy gaming experience.