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Started by CountDeMoney, October 19, 2009, 10:48:20 PM

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grumbler

Quote from: Syt on October 20, 2009, 12:34:45 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 20, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Also, most games never seem to have Confederate retard as horrible as the Union retard - both had more than their fair share.

Which is why I prefer playing with randomized stats. Though I think only Forge of Freedom ever had the stats random and hidden, so that you'd only realize a retard is commanding your Army of the Potomac after two or three battles.
That is definitely the way to go, with a few exceptions (those who had commanded large numbers of troops in the fairly recent past).  No one should have a known quantity as a corps or army commander.
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Razgovory

Quote from: PDH on October 20, 2009, 12:24:01 PM
Quote from: Winkelried on October 20, 2009, 11:14:50 AM
Considering what happened to Pope I'd say that "retard camps" are somewhat historically accurate.  :P
Yeah, but Sigel, Banks, Butler needed to be there too...at the very least.

Hey, Butler had his good sides.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Syt

Quote from: grumbler on October 20, 2009, 04:19:21 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 20, 2009, 12:34:45 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 20, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Also, most games never seem to have Confederate retard as horrible as the Union retard - both had more than their fair share.

Which is why I prefer playing with randomized stats. Though I think only Forge of Freedom ever had the stats random and hidden, so that you'd only realize a retard is commanding your Army of the Potomac after two or three battles.
That is definitely the way to go, with a few exceptions (those who had commanded large numbers of troops in the fairly recent past).  No one should have a known quantity as a corps or army commander.

Actually, commanders should have three different sets of stats - division, corps and army command. While someone may be a brilliant division commander it's possible he sucks at the next levels.
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Berkut

Quote from: Syt on October 21, 2009, 05:45:06 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 20, 2009, 04:19:21 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 20, 2009, 12:34:45 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 20, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Also, most games never seem to have Confederate retard as horrible as the Union retard - both had more than their fair share.

Which is why I prefer playing with randomized stats. Though I think only Forge of Freedom ever had the stats random and hidden, so that you'd only realize a retard is commanding your Army of the Potomac after two or three battles.
That is definitely the way to go, with a few exceptions (those who had commanded large numbers of troops in the fairly recent past).  No one should have a known quantity as a corps or army commander.

Actually, commanders should have three different sets of stats - division, corps and army command. While someone may be a brilliant division commander it's possible he sucks at the next levels.
NO WAY JACKSON WAS THE BESTEST AT EVERYTHING!
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Scipio

Quote from: Berkut on October 21, 2009, 09:01:56 AM
Quote from: Syt on October 21, 2009, 05:45:06 AM
Quote from: grumbler on October 20, 2009, 04:19:21 PM
Quote from: Syt on October 20, 2009, 12:34:45 PM
Quote from: PDH on October 20, 2009, 12:29:19 PM
Also, most games never seem to have Confederate retard as horrible as the Union retard - both had more than their fair share.

Which is why I prefer playing with randomized stats. Though I think only Forge of Freedom ever had the stats random and hidden, so that you'd only realize a retard is commanding your Army of the Potomac after two or three battles.
That is definitely the way to go, with a few exceptions (those who had commanded large numbers of troops in the fairly recent past).  No one should have a known quantity as a corps or army commander.

Actually, commanders should have three different sets of stats - division, corps and army command. While someone may be a brilliant division commander it's possible he sucks at the next levels.
NO WAY JACKSON WAS THE BESTEST AT EVERYTHING!
Certainly tops at getting shot by his own pickets.
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PDH

He didn't do too good with pepper though...
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Quote from: Syt on October 20, 2009, 12:34:45 PM
Which is why I prefer playing with randomized stats. Though I think only Forge of Freedom ever had the stats random and hidden, so that you'd only realize a retard is commanding your Army of the Potomac after two or three battles.
No Greater Glory!  Now that was a fun game for its time.
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Habbaku

The marketing team at AGEOD needs a little intelligence.  From their ACW game press-release :

"- 2 playable nations, dozens of different troops, hundreds of events, over 300 historical leaders with unique abilities"
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Berkut

Fuck that, clearly they are rebel fanbois. Two nations my ass.
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Razgovory

Hmmm.  I like to here more on the WWI.  I, like CdM, am very interested in some of these products.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Ed Anger

Quote from: Razgovory on October 22, 2009, 10:39:18 AM
Hmmm.  I like to here more on the WWI.  I, like CdM, am very interested in some of these products.

The demo of the WWI game was a turd. And no matter how much Tamas tried to polish that turd with his posts, it remained a turd.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Habbaku

Does anywhere have the multi-game pack for sale that also allows a download of the game(s)?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.

-J. R. R. Tolkien

Tamas

Quote from: Ed Anger on October 22, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 22, 2009, 10:39:18 AM
Hmmm.  I like to here more on the WWI.  I, like CdM, am very interested in some of these products.

The demo of the WWI game was a turd. And no matter how much Tamas tried to polish that turd with his posts, it remained a turd.

Shut up.

Ed Anger

Quote from: Tamas on October 23, 2009, 04:44:57 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on October 22, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
Quote from: Razgovory on October 22, 2009, 10:39:18 AM
Hmmm.  I like to here more on the WWI.  I, like CdM, am very interested in some of these products.

The demo of the WWI game was a turd. And no matter how much Tamas tried to polish that turd with his posts, it remained a turd.

Shut up.

:)
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive