Josh, your Corps need engineers and pontooneers. Engineers aid in entrenching your forces more rapidly, i.e. force protection and pontooneers aid in quicker movement over rivers. Lee should be in Richmond in direct command of the defending force. Your forces are out of position in VA and TN. The VA forces need to move to protect Richmond. If you take Alexandria and Grant moves on Richmond, then you will have 8k power in the wrong end of VA to react. Tim can block the Potomac with a couple of Brigs reducing a D.C. invasion chance to 8%. In TN, Tim's forces in Nashville are stuck holding their supply base. Your force needs to be between Nashville and the Mississippi. That way you threaten Nashville, pinning the force there and you would be able to move on Lyons' smaller force and destroy it in detail. Good luck!
I appreciate the advice. My plan was never to go on an offensive campaign for Washington. It turned into that due to my early blunders in Tennessee. Plus, I wanted to see how hard it would be to go for D.C. My second blunder was to not fully commit to D.C. early on. I left too many forces in the west at the beginning. As far as engineers and pontoons, I never feel I have enough money to put into those.
@@JoshuaNiles-i9l If you are going with a defensive strategy that is fine. However, Engineers would actually help that strategy. Your stack with five infantry Divisions would entrench more quickly to higher levels with one single Engineer unit and then take fewer casualties. Similarly, a Pontooneer will speed your Corps when they March to the Sound of the Guns, so that they get there in time to fight. Napoleon said, "it is better to be present for battle with ten men than absent with ten thousand." Finally, risking Lee in the defense of Richmond is worth it. If you lose the Capital, you will be in real trouble. Good luck!
The reason you "lost" the battle is because your army retreated from battle. In this game "won/lost" is determined by who retreats, not casualties. Stalemate is when neither army retreats and both remain in the region. Johnston's army retreated from the region Falmouth is in to the region Spotsylvania is in.
Josh, your Corps need engineers and pontooneers. Engineers aid in entrenching your forces more rapidly, i.e. force protection and pontooneers aid in quicker movement over rivers. Lee should be in Richmond in direct command of the defending force. Your forces are out of position in VA and TN. The VA forces need to move to protect Richmond. If you take Alexandria and Grant moves on Richmond, then you will have 8k power in the wrong end of VA to react. Tim can block the Potomac with a couple of Brigs reducing a D.C. invasion chance to 8%. In TN, Tim's forces in Nashville are stuck holding their supply base. Your force needs to be between Nashville and the Mississippi. That way you threaten Nashville, pinning the force there and you would be able to move on Lyons' smaller force and destroy it in detail. Good luck!
I appreciate the advice. My plan was never to go on an offensive campaign for Washington. It turned into that due to my early blunders in Tennessee. Plus, I wanted to see how hard it would be to go for D.C. My second blunder was to not fully commit to D.C. early on. I left too many forces in the west at the beginning. As far as engineers and pontoons, I never feel I have enough money to put into those.
Also, I think if you have Lee in Richmond, he does actually take part in the battles.
@@JoshuaNiles-i9l If you are going with a defensive strategy that is fine. However, Engineers would actually help that strategy. Your stack with five infantry Divisions would entrench more quickly to higher levels with one single Engineer unit and then take fewer casualties. Similarly, a Pontooneer will speed your Corps when they March to the Sound of the Guns, so that they get there in time to fight. Napoleon said, "it is better to be present for battle with ten men than absent with ten thousand." Finally, risking Lee in the defense of Richmond is worth it. If you lose the Capital, you will be in real trouble. Good luck!
@@JoshuaNiles-i9l He knew he could not beat me, so he cowered in fear behind his entrenchments
The reason you "lost" the battle is because your army retreated from battle. In this game "won/lost" is determined by who retreats, not casualties. Stalemate is when neither army retreats and both remain in the region. Johnston's army retreated from the region Falmouth is in to the region Spotsylvania is in.