American Civil War Battles

[TheReal_ND]

It's kind of the same as it ever was. I'm sure tons of tribes went to war with Rome thinking that they had a decent shot to at least illecit an agreement but that never happens when you control the board and are looking at rolling up dissention with zeal.

That aside, I did a book report on the battle of bulk run II. That was in grade school. I highly doubt they are teaching civil war history like they used to.

I know fuck all about it tbh

[TheReal_ND]

I did go to college for a year. To my professors credit he made us list three reasons why the civil war wasn't about slavery.

[Smitty-48]

Richmond was banking on the British and French to come to their aid.

But what happened was, the Union invented the Military Industrial Complex.

Wasn't long after that the Union got so big, that the British and French were too scared to mess with them.

America the Superpower is born.

[Smitty-48]

This is why Shiloh is the beginning. The first big battle where they had mass casualties.

There was no logistics tail to deal with the dead and wounded.

So a cry went out across the Union to provide the military with more support.

Wall Street saw a chance to make profit, so for the first time they invested in the war.

The result was the Military Industrial Complex.

From Appomattox Court House, to the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.

[C-Mag]

Richmond was banking on the British and French to come to their aid.

But what happened was, the Union invented the Military Industrial Complex.

Wasn't long after that the Union got so big, that the British and French were too scared to mess with them.

America the Superpower is born.

Never heard it put like that.

[Smitty-48]

It's like two early 19th century Napoleonic armies enter the war. The army that fought Mexico splits into two.

After Shiloh, Wall Street enters the war.

This transforms the Union into a 20th century industrial army before its time.

Then the South is fighting the Napoleonic Wars while the Union is already fighting World War One.

Then the South goes Kamikaze to try to get the British and French to enter the war against the Behemoth
.
The British and French take one look at the Behemoth and say, no thanks.

Then the Behemoth basically nukes the South in slow motion.

Those are the two competing power structures.

The Southron Planting Aristocracy v. The Wall Street Banking Aristocracy.

Wall Street for the win. Banking beats planting when it comes to building engines of war.

[Smitty-48]

Richmond was banking on the British and French to come to their aid.

But what happened was, the Union invented the Military Industrial Complex.

Wasn't long after that the Union got so big, that the British and French were too scared to mess with them.

America the Superpower is born.

Never heard it put like that.

A Superpower born at Gettysburg which has been trying to free all the slaves everywhere ever since, from Spain, to Vietnam, to Iraq, and beyond.

Once unsheathed, the Terrible Swift Sword had an insatiable appetite for freeing peoples, whether they liked it, or not.

Victorian Abolitionist Temperance mates with the Wall Street Military Industrial Complex, the Empire of Liberty is the progeny.

[Hastur]

Having run a game store for many years I'm a bit fed up with the ACW. Most good wargame companies are American and their fascination with that conflict is never-ending.

It is a very good conflict to make games out of, for sure. The pinnacle of ACW games were the Great Campaigns of the American Civil War series by Avalon Hill.



Joe Balkoski really hit it out of the park with those games. Instead of focusing on a single battle he made the games about a multi-week campaign. Most ACW games have a map over a battlefield. or if they were on the strategic level, over the whole country, GCotACW had an intermediate scale. In Roads to Gettysburg the battlefield of Gettysburg would take up a couple of hexes and the game would run for the entire three-week campaign.



If you ever want to try out ACW gaming, go for one in that series.

[Hastur]

Start at the beginning . . .

I read A Blaze of Glory by Jeff Shaara last year. It's not as good as his fathers novel The Killer Angels but it's a good retelling of the battle. I might read some more of his books next time I get a craving for ACW stuff.

[Fife]

Florida Man Unconquered.

It wasn't our fault the Virginians surrendered.

No drunk Yankee fatass ever sat in a swivel chair in Tallahassee.